[Ads-l] no "half-vast" coup d'=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A9tat_?=definition

[Laurence Horn]

Presumably the Guardian would have expected Bolton to have referred to
"half-arsed" ideas, if that's what he meant. I recall an argument several
decades ago among theoretical linguists about "The vastness of natural
language"--

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3277027-the-vastness-of-natural-languages
https://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~langendoen/McCawleyReviewOfVastness.pdf

--to which some of us were willing to concede that natural language was
half-vast.

LH

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 9:12 AM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> John Bolton informs, in The Guardian today, that a real coup d'état must
> be carefully planned, as he had done in "other places." Therefore, saith
> he, as transcribed in The Guardian, Trump did not attempt the
> forementioned, given his "half-vast" ideas.
>
> SG
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