Coach Paterno and the syntactic blind alley

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 10 18:27:22 UTC 2011


Orthosyntactic gap?

     VS-)

On 11/10/2011 1:11 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> ...
> Oh right, I'd forgotten that one, which only is a problem in
> writing--"didn't useta" is as easy to say as "useta", but impossible
> to spell. An orthographic gap! LH

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