Re: A New Year's Poem For sci.lang

Alexander Gross wrote:
>
> I concluded my presentation at LACUS with a slightly adapted version of a
> famous nineteenth century American poem, which you may have encountered
> before. It also seems quite appropriate as a New Year's greeting for this
> newsgroup--only four words needed to be changed to make it fit rather aptly
> into today's world of linguistics.

Yo liar, since you know just about nothing of "today's world of
linguistics," what do you think you're doing?

Why haven't you answered any of the questions that emerged from that
pathetic attempt at a "quiz"?

> religious faiths. But it requires only the slight degree of adaptation
> found above for the poem to work equally well for the so-called science of
> linguistics.

Have you bothered to read anything by Victor Yngve yet?

I'm halfway through his 2004 coedited collection, which should be enough
to convince anyone of the fatuity of the approach.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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