pet peeves

[victor steinbok]

Any time! I wish I could say it was deliberate...

VS-)

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
> >
> > BBC finally put up its list of 50 "offensive" or "irritating"
> Americanisms
> > and it's every bit as ridiculous as was expected. Mark Liberman covered
> the
> > initial article on LL and Pullum followed up with a post on the 50. It's
> > hard not to read it without laughing...
>
> Thanks, Victor, for a classic overnegation (and not just an Americanism).
>
> More on "It's hard not to X without Y-ing":
>
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003404.html
>
> --bgz

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