Wystan:
Perhaps it's because both games and language operate by sets of arbitrary
rules.
But language has more of them, so becomes a black hole into which all other
discussions are ultimately drawn.
Or something ...
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG) <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Scale Category Grammar
> Robin,
> I have been following this thread concerning the Sydney Cricket
Ground,
> and all the games with Zimbabwe and the West Indies on Sky, and wondered
> when and how it became confused with the subject of grammar.
> Is it the fate of all discussions of sport on this list to end up as
> discussions of language? Did it happen while I was taking the door for a
> walk perhaps? Help!
> Wystan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Hamilton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 12:16 a.m.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Scale Category Grammar
>
>
> Why is everyones making funs of SCG?
>
> Just becoz it got zapped from the write by Tscomski and from the left by
> (bless his name) Saussure and his sicko phants is no reason to dis it.
>
> May I direct youall's attention to:
>
> M.A.K.Halliday, "Categories of the Theory of Grammar", WORD 17 (3), 1961.
>
> R
>
> (2D2)
>
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