Indiana bans linguistics

[Ben Zimmer]

Good stuff... now on Language Log:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=12309

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Galen Buttitta wrote:
>
> It means "Don't try to be clever and sneak obscenity past the radar", that's all.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 9, 2014, at 10:55, Herb Stahlke wrote:
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>> Among the Indiana BMV's potentially prohibited vanity plates:
>>
>> Messages that involve linguistics, numbers, phonetics, translations from
>> foreign languages or upside-down or reverse reading to reference any other
>> prohibited numeric and letter combination.  (IndyStar, May 9, 2014, p. A6.)
>>
>> I'm not sure what that means.

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