Coach Paterno and the syntactic blind alley
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Nov 10 18:55:21 UTC 2011
On Nov 10, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> Orthosyntactic gap?
>
> VS-)
Sounds good, but "syntacticographic" would be more semantically transparent. "Orthosyntactic" could refer to grammatical "correctness".
LH
>
> 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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