Re: [ADS-L] Postal-St ampe (vs. Paper-Penzl etc.)

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

How sad that politics got in the way of art!

In a message dated 2/29/08 4:20:14 AM, preston at MSU.EDU writes:


> Geoff,
> 
> David Stampe is an old friend of mine, but I
> didn't ant to speak fro him since I couldn't
> swear that he hadn't snuck out some dark night a
> published a paper with Postal. But I would have
> been astonished.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
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> >Poster:       Geoff Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU>
> >Subject:      Postal-Stampe (vs. Paper-Penzl etc.)
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> >Sorry, but I have to protest, as one of the last living (and practicing)
> >Natural Phonologists. Although David and Paul are pretty much of the
> >same generation, I can assure you all that they never published a paper
> >together--their views of the nature of language (and nature) are so
> >diametrically opposed that the only image I can conjure up would be
> >matter and anti-matter. And I think I can safely speak for David (with
> >whom I was speaking on the phone just yesterday) on this.
> >
> >On the other hand, I do know that Alpher, Bethe and Gamow deliberately
> >published a paper together in the late forties. It was based on Alpher's
> >dissertation, under Gamow's supervision, but they added Bethe just for
> >the joke, even though Bethe wasn't actually seriously involved in the
> >development of the theory (of an aspect of the Big Bang) that was
> >contained therein, and even though it was unusual for the advisor's name
> >to be included in a physics paper at the time (according to Wikipedia,
> >at any rate):
> >
> >Alpher, R. A., H. Bethe and G. Gamow. ìThe Origin of Chemical Elements,î
> >Physical Review, 73 (1948), 803.
> >
> >Geoff
> >
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> >
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