"crash blossoms" redux

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:10 AM -0700 1/31/10, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>Far be it from me to steal from ADS-L's glory! I don't believe I
>"assigned credit" to Language Log -- I only said that many examples
>(including Steve Anderson's) appeared after I first posted about crash
>blossoms on Language Log (following John McIntyre).  But I should have
>phrased that more carefully -- post hoc ergo propter hoc and all
>that...
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>--Ben Zimmer

No, you're right.  I almost put in a reference acknowledging my
assumption of PHEPH but I figured it would weaken my plaintiff's
brief.  Should have known it would come in the defendant's
presentation!

LH
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>On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>  Nice piece by Ben for the Times "On Language" column today...
>>  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html
>>  ...but I notice credit for the "gem" (datum provided by my colleague
>>  Steve Anderson) has been reassigned from ADS-L--
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>  > Subject:         Crash blossom of the week
>>  From:   Laurence Horn <[log in to unmask]>
>>  Reply-To: American Dialect Society <[log in to unmask]>
>>  Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:00:31 -0400
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>>  Courtesy of my colleague Steve Anderson:
>>  "McDonald's fries the holy grail for potato farmers"
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>>http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/us/2009/09/23/D9ASV9F80_us_spud_stud/index.html
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>>  LH
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>>  --to Language Log.
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>>  The appearance in LL was a bit later in the day, literally, although
>>  granted it comes with the original AP piece and a photo of some of
>>  the fried grail in question:
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>>  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1762
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>>  LH
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