I Don ¹t Do ŒDo¹

[Robert Lawless]

I suspect this is probably a first, and I really doubt that he meant to 
suggest that he doesn't know much about language; in my occasional 
readings of him I get the impression that he thinks he knows just all 
there is to know about language.

Ronald Kephart wrote:
> On 4/12/09 12:03 PM, "Harold Schiffman" <hfsclpp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [Quoting William Safire]:
>
>
>     I do usage, I do etymology, I do synonymy, I do nuance, I do
>     metaphor, I do slang, I do a little light grammar, but I don’t do
>     syntax.
>
>
> Ah, he does “a little light grammar” and no syntax. So, does anyone 
> know if is this the first time he’s admitted to not /really /knowing 
> much about language?
>
> Ron
>
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