Fwd: "lion" +/- "-s"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

drat!  now from the appropriate e-address:

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> From: Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> Date: October 27, 2008 7:55:26 AM PDT
> To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: "lion" +/- "-s"
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 7:36 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>> At 10/27/2008 08:00 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:
>>> ... The individual he was featuring (an American) likewise referred
>>> to groups (or masses) as "hippo," "hyena," and "zebra."
>>
>> I forgot to ask -- was the American an expert (mammalogist,
>> perhaps)?  That would be a clue to practice amongst the
>> professionals.
>
> from the transcript on the 60 Minutes site:
>
> [on “American entrepreneur Greg Carr”:
>
> To Carr, that's an opportunity. It's the same kind of business
> sensibility that made him a fortune. Right out of Harvard in the
> mid-1980's, he and a partner developed a hot new product called
> voicemail. In 1998, he cashed out to the tune of $200 million and
> devoted himself to bringing entrepreneurship to charity.
>
> "So, the idea is take the beauty of the park and use that to do
> human development. Attract the tourists who will spend the money to
> create the jobs and lift everybody outta poverty. For an
> entrepreneur, it's kind of a compelling opportunity to, you know,
> one plus one equals ten," he explains.
>
> Carr's non-profit foundation has an agreement with the Mozambican
> government to develop Gorongosa Park over the next 20 years. Carr is
> putting in $40 million of his own money to try to bring Gorongosa
> back to what it once was.]
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/24/60minutes/main4543667.shtml
>
> more on the plurals issue in a little while.
>
> arnold
>
>>
>>
>> Joel
>>
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