[Ads-l] heme, hemeburger

[Ben Zimmer]

Oops, sorry -- here's the correct link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfMrVqn-Htk

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 6:29 PM David K. Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>
wrote:

>
> The message on the screen says video not available.
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> Here it is without the annoying MST3K-wannabe commentary:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsfMrVqn-Htk
>
> I see the principal advisor was W. Freeman Twaddell (chair of Brown's
> linguistics department -- he brought Ku=C4=8Dera and Francis together and
> suggested they start the Brown Corpus). Also listed as a consultant is
> Harry Hoijer, perhaps most famous for coining the phrase "the Sapir=E2=80=
> =93Whorf
> hypothesis" (having studied with Sapir at Univ. of Chicago).
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 2:56 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > There was one movie in the series ("The Alphabet Conspiracy") that was
> > about linguistics.  Does anyone remember that one?
> > A tad before my time, but imdb has a couple nice reviews of it (and the
> > Bell series) and, of course, that one's one YT:
> > https://youtu.be/CMIyAOXxWR8
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:16 PM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 13:44:06 Zone-0400 Laurence Horn <
> > > laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> posted
> > >
> > > <quote>Does anyone else recall an elementary-school-friendly info movie
> > > entitled =E2=80=9CHemo the Magnificent=E2=80=9D?
> > > <end quote>
> > >
> > > Yes, I remember the Bell Science Series, of which "Hemo the
> Magnificent=
> "
> > > was the second one I saw, back in elementary school.  There was one
> mov=
> ie
> > > in the series ("The Alphabet Conspiracy") that was about linguistics.
> > Does
> > > anyone remember that one?
> > >
> >

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