Jesse S. et al. v. Antonin S. et al. on fleeting expletives

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon May 4 04:00:16 UTC 2009


At 5/3/2009 10:41 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/opinion/03freedman.html
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

I am amused that Adam Freedman writes "That the justices managed to
do this without actually uttering either of the words at issue ..."
-- but manages himself to evade even an initialism by writing "Jesse
Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary and the
author of a book on swearing ..."!

Joel

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



More information about the Ads-l mailing list