Thank You for Smirking

Tuesday March 21st 2006, 4:25 pm Printer Friendly Version
Filed under:Language
Posted By: Matt

To reinforce my comments about language pedants, here’s a link to the Language Log, where Geoffrey Pullum’s joke illustrates nicely the linguist’s view on this question.

Since he freely admits that the joke is a rip-off, I feel no remorse in stealing this post’s subject line from him.


1 Comment »

  1. little off topic here but microsoft released their sharing service

    http://ideas.live.com/ windows live messager has folder shearing stuff. I’m testing it now.

    Comment by GG — 3/22/2006 @ 3:52 pm

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