[Corpora-List] A small favour

Fri Sep 7 13:08:54 UTC 2007

I agree with Dr. Sampson's assessment of Ramesh's request. I think this type of participation and use of the listserve should be encourgaged.

Amanda
(speaking as a relative new-comer to the listserve myself :)

>>> Geoffrey Sampson <grs2 at sussex.ac.uk> 09/07/07 8:13 AM >>>
I thought Ramesh's response to a harmless-seeming request seemed a touch
harsh.  I had taken it that Ulf Magnusson might well be interested in
comparing the actual usage of SLIP as revealed by corpora to what
native-speaker linguists imagine the usage is (and I gave him a few
examples I dreamed up, as evidence for the latter).  It would be a pity
to scare off newcomers to the corpus-linguistics world!

Geoffrey

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