Geoffrey Alert

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:19 AM -0800 2/18/08, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Brenda Lester wrote:
>
>>Geoffrey Nunberg is quoted in today's New York Times: "Celebrating
>>the Semicolon In a Most Unlikely Location" (pg B3).
>
>most of us will have to go on-line to read this, since it appears in
>the new-york-and-region section in the nyc edition, but isn't in the
>national edition.
>
>geoff n. posted about this on the Language Log:
>
>   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005387.html
>
Geoff was not the only linguist to be quoted by the Times piece in
connection with the Subway Semicolon affair:

The linguist Noam Chomsky sniffed, ''I suppose Bush would claim it's
the effect of No Child Left Behind.''

LH

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