Well there was I walking through York with its fishpools
Past pinball machines in the student arcades
When up stepped a linguist all dressed in fine linen,
Dressed up in fine linen for his seminar.
"I hear by your accent that you are from Glasgow"
He said in those tones gained in some public school
"But please to remember that here we're transformers,
So scatter your category as you pass us by.
Here Noam is language and no way political,
So please leave your American Power by the door:
The language you speak must for us pass as current
Or you'll never cross the efficiency bar."
Oops2
DeeThree
(and I'd never even +think+ of eating my Partridge with Onions, no matter
how obscene Shakespeare was)
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: statement
> Easy there, feller-me-lad--you don't want to go all apoplectic
> and get carted off to St. James Infirmary, do you? (Well, now that
> I think of it, you'd probably shoot yourself in the foot for the
> chance!) Be that as it may, don't be putting any gnomes down MY
> chimney, if you please. My ref. to TG was just an example and
> offered in the (by-now list-wide) hope of clarifying "grammar's"
> assorted meanings, maybe even pinning down our young Hot Dog:
> like, can we get Onions with that?
>
> See ya on Laredo Street,
>
> Candice
>
>
>
> >Transformational grammar, PAGH!!! My tanks will bracket your battlezone,
> >Candice. As Odysseus said to the Cyclops, Call Me Someone. Where we is
now
> >is Andrew Radford's minimalism.
> >
> >Where we was then (as Chris implied) is The Good Edinburgh Maoist
Halliday
> >(who sweeny todd-like devoured macintosh like a sawney bean) ... Let's
hear
> >it for scale-category grammar.
> >
> >Only of course the nastyAmericanImperialistNome runed the roast.
> >
> >Ooops ...
> >
> >Robin
>
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