[Corpora-List] medication pronunciations

[Khurshid Ahmad]

Ah, even more short messages about 'corpora'(?)

> Emiliano Guevara wrote:
> ...
>
>>
>> Dear James, if you really think that I, as a member of this list,
>> don't have the right to ask you for moderation, please start a
>> separate discussion thread on that  topic and find what other members
>> think about it. I am totally sure that I can do it.
>>
>> And dear James, calling this "flaming" is completely absurd. You are
>> now defending off-topic threads that have nothing to do with corpora
>> or corpus linguistics. Remember this list is called "Corpora", and
>> not anything near "Say what you think about my favourite difficult
>> issue in language".
> ...
>
> As I read it (copy of the message is below), James is not calling what
> you are writing as "flaming".
>
> Rather, his comment seems to be that just about every message ever
> written will probably end up in a corpus at some point,
> so every "flaming" message written by anybody will probably be preserved
> forever in some corpus.
>
> Anyway, that is how his message seems to read to me.
> Thanks
> -Alex
>
>>
>> On 1 Apr 2008, at 01:49, James L. Fidelholtz wrote:
>>> Hi, All (and sorry, Marc: yours just happened to be the last msg in
>>> this thread),
>>>
>>> Khurshid Ahmad <kahmad at cs.tcd.ie> wrote: ...
>>> "... short messages that may or may not be related to corpus
>>> linguistics or corpora-based studies...."
>>>
>>> Due to the nature of the tera-word corpora currently in
>>> circulation, I find it very difficult to wrap my mind around the
>>> notion of a msg of *any* length being unrelated to corpus
>>> linguistics or corpus-based studies. At the very least it could be
>>> (and probably will be) corpus data at some point. Beware, flamers!
>>> -- your excesses are doomed to immortality.
>>>
> ...
>
>
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