Trudgill in Vocabula

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Beverly Flanigan" <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
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Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: Trudgill in Vocabula


> Does anyone subscribe to the Vocabula Review who is willing to share the
> Trudgill article with us non-paying lurkers?  I'd like to read the article
> but refuse to subscribe to this generally worthless "review"!
>
> At 08:20 AM 6/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >In the June issue of The Vocabula Review -- now online -- Peter Trudgill
> >takes on Mark Halpern.
> >
> >
> >The Critical Reader Rebutted
> >Trudgill Takes on Halpern
> >
> ><A HREF="http://www.vocabula.com/index.asp">Converse Terms, Polysemy, and
> >Respect for Nonstandard Dialects </A>
> >
> >Peter Trudgill
> >
> >
> >I am puzzled by Mark Halpern's piece [<A
> >HREF="http://www.vocabula.com/VRMay02Halpern.asp">Myth-Bashing as a
> >Substitute for
> >Thought</A>] attacking my chapter on lexical-semantic change in <A
>
>HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=thevocabulare-20&path=
tg/detail/-/0140260234/qid%3D1055508691/sr%3D1-5">Language
> >Myths,</A> and by
> >his motivation for writing it. He agrees with me that it is inevitable
and
> >natural that languages change through time, but he seems not to share my
> >respect
> >for individuals who happen to be in the vanguard of any particular change
at
> >any one time.  ... More ...<A HREF="http://www.vocabula.com/index.asp">
> ></A>
> ><A HREF="www.vocabula.com">www.vocabula.com</A>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Robert Hartwell Fiske
> >Editor and Publisher
> >The Vocabula Review
> >www.vocabula.com
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> >
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> >
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