ah/ awe goes to bed

[Tom Zurinskas]

Thanks Fritz,  Your kind words come at a good time.
Tommy the Troll


>From: FRITZ JUENGLING <juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US>

>
>John, this is a surprising comment, given the very rude one below.  I
>found the Tom Z's ideas very interesting--they generated the most
>interesting discussion on this list in years.  Is there no room for him
>on this list? Just because he has different goals from most of us should
>not mean this list is closed to him.
>Fritz
>
> >>> JMB at STRADLEY.COM 10/4/2006 8:18 AM >>>
>         Actually, I would like to express my admiration for the
>restrained manner in which listmembers took a friendly and pedagogical
>approach to a persistent poster who has very different goals.
>
>         Tom Z, if you are still here:  There are people in the world
>who>want to reform English pronunciation.  For example, that was one of
>the>goals of H.W. Fowler in writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage.
>You will not find them here.
>
>John Baker
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Of RonButters at AOL.COM
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>Subject: ah/ awe goes to bed
>
>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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