naming a language

[Paul Hopper]

I was being ironic of course. 
-P.


> Stern objectivity? Objectivity, stern or otherwise, is a fleeting ideal!
> 
> --Aya Katz
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Hopper wrote:
> 
>> Bloomfield dubbed the kinds of judgmental observations that Funknetters
>> have been making about the alleged "mispronunciation" of names
>> "tertiary responses", and reckoned them as part of the linguist's
>> accounting of facts about a language. This being so, surely our
>> attitude toward our discussion should be one of stern objectivity
>> rather than amusement?
>> 
>> Or of course it could just be that we're having fun for a change.
>> 
>> 
>> - Paul
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I am amused by the general prescriptive feeling that has been evident
>>> in this discussion from the use of phrases like 'irritating errors'.
>>> It's language change and language use, people! Aren't functional
>>> linguists supposed to like this sort of thing? Claire
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ------------- Claire Bowern Department of Linguistics Yale University
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- Prof. Dr. Paul J. Hopper Senior Fellow Freiburg Institute for Advanced
>> Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Albertstr. 19 D-79104 Freiburg
>>  and Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities Department of
>> English Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213
>> 
>> 


-- 
Prof. Dr. Paul J. Hopper
Senior Fellow
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Albertstr. 19
D-79104 Freiburg
and
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213