blogging on teen follies

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Arnold. That's terrific - I mean, estimable !

  So we have before us - in black and white - proof that most persons in responsible positions must rely on about twenty words for roughly one-third of their utterances - the same twenty words used by inarticulate, music-benumbed teenagers !

  Can we stand idly by ?

  JL

"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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by mark liberman, who's tracked down a fair amount of stuff:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003921.html

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