reanalysis or nonce blend?

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:35 AM -0400 5/2/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>Could we say the external "Berlin heart" is Jerry-rigged?
>
>--Charlie

argggh--very nice one!  ;-)


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>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:05:32 -0400
>>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>Subject: reanalysis or nonce blend?
>>
>>P.S.  In connection with an earlier thread (the "rhythm rule"),
>>there was discussion today on ABC's World News Tonight of an
>>"external heart", a device that saved a child's life in South
>>Carolina.  It's called the "Berlin heart", a German import that has
>>not yet been approved by the FDA yet, except on a case-by-case
>>waiver.  But each time it was referred to, it was called a "BER-lin
>>HEART", not a "Ber-LIN HEART", as if it were manufactured up the
>>road from here in BER-lin Connecticut.  The rhythm rule strikes
>>again!
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