Rocks for Jocks, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Apr 27 15:53:38 UTC 2010


At 11:40 AM -0400 4/27/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>"Physics for Poets" was the official name of an introductory physics course
>for non-majors at NYU around 1970. It was so listed in the catalogue.
>
>(That's the standard, not the emphatic, use of "so.")

Or the Gen-X use, as in "I'm so not taking that course."

LH

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