more pop language books...

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:26 PM -0400 5/23/09, Laurence Horn wrote:
>...reviewed by Roy Blount, Jr. again.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/books/review/Blount-t.html
>
>Last time my skepticism about his expertise for this task was
>vigorously countered by others here, so I'll restrict myself to
>wondering how the condemnation of the use of "hopefully" as a
>sentence adverb (= 'it is to be hoped that') is an instance of
>*non*-prescriptivism.  Oh well.  Nice to have a new reference book on
>Klingon et al.
>
>LH
>
And since nobody else has mentioned it, here's something else from
yesterday's Times about which there is nothing unalloyed.  Attaboy
Dickson!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/sports/baseball/24dictionary.html

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