Re: What's a good book for linguistics in general?

From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:03:48 GMT

Matt Beckwith wrote:
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> "Joe Fineman" <joe_f@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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> > You were perhaps rash to mention it on this newsgroup,
> > because it is highly opinionated & prescriptivist.
>
> What, this newsgroup is too good for certain books? Give me a break.

Or certain books are too bad to be considered.
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