Grammatical Cupertino confirmed (was "risen" < "raised")

[Jonathan Lighter]

With these words, with these words, with these words I deconstruct thee!

  JL

William Salmon <william.salmon at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> The author herself confirms Ben's theory.

There are no authors. There is only language.


> She writes as follows (I assume=20
> "you" is Yankee for "y'all" and not "you" =3D "Ron Butters," who only presen=
> ted the=20
> problem and was too dim to see the solution):
>
> Hey Ron
> I did exactly what you suspected. I had written raised, used the grammar=20
> checker and changed it to risen. I guess my editor relied on the grammar che=
> cker=20
> as well.
> Thanks for reading, and writing!
> Laurin
>
> In a message dated 2/21/08 12:05:42 PM, bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU writes=
> :
>
>
>> > I blame the insidious grammar checker in Microsoft Word. When I run
>> >=A0 the sentence with "raised" through the checker in MS Word 2003, it
>> >=A0 suggests replacing "raised" with "risen". So most likely it's a
>> >=A0 grammatical Cupertino [*].
>> =20
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~Will Salmon

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