Being pendantic

David Bowie db.list at PMPKN.NET
Thu Sep 29 12:01:14 UTC 2005


From:    "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>

> No need to over-analyze, it's a typo.

No need to overanalyze?!? But--we're *linguists*, man! It's what we do!

p.s. Hope you didn't feel like i was singling you out, Bill, by riffing
off of your typo--it just happened to fire some neurons that had been
noticing it a lot lately.

--
David Bowie                                         http://pmpkn.net/lx
     Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
     house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
     chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.



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