ah/ awe goes to bed

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Wed Oct 4 15:05:42 UTC 2006


In a message dated 10/3/06 10:48:41 PM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU writes:


> mindful of benjamin barrett's wry posting on "troll", i forbear to do
> a full response (from linguistics 101)
>

Yes, we are all such PROFESSORS that we rushed--perhaps somewhat trollishly
ourselves from time to time--to TEACH that naive, stubborn fellow the
fundamental truths (though he was cleary unwilling to hear them; as the right-wing
talking heads say, "He has an agenda").

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