I've just had an example of the hanging paragraph. It's obviously
generated by a person on a computer and

Just like that. You expect more, you look for it, nothing's there. The
document was spelt perfectly, just half the content missing.

Also, a pedant writes, it's moleskinE - with an E. How you pronounce
this I have no idea. Anyone enlighten me?

I think you'll find that all the cheap stuff is made in China. They're
due to overtake US GDP in 2030.

Is this the fellow: http://en.efactory.pl/Michael_Halliday

Reckless Roger

On 8/11/06, Robin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > A small research grant in the offing maybe? Then the Rodent School Of
> > Instantaneous Linguistics? I see a bright future for you in my crystal
> > bowl.
> >
> > Roger
>
> For some reason, this reminds me that I was trained in the sixties in the
> Wrong School of linguistics -- scale-category grammar rather than
> transformational grammar.
>
> [It was only when I arrived at York that I discovered that Noam Chomsky
> wasn't *simply an incisive and witty political commentator, author of
> +American Power and The New Mandarins+.  Talk about parochial ... ]
>
> So when the rest of the world was devouring +Aspects of the Theory of
> Syntax+, I was trying to get my head around "Theories of a category of
> grammar".
>
> Bloody Maoist linguistics -- only Glasgow, Edinburgh and London taught
> Halliday and MacIntosh, while the rest of the universe was into
> transformational grammar.
>
> [Hey, anyone on the list able to get their head round Andrew Radcliff's
> +minimalist linguistics+?  And able to explain this to me?  I knew a
> linguist wance was taught by Radcliff, but she's no longer speaking to me.
> Way it goes.]
>
> M.A.K.Halliday is interesting to do a where-are-they-now? trace on.  Or
> perhaps to only someone with my chronological and geographical background.
> He seemed to drop out of sight, even in Glasgow, some time in the seventies,
> and as far as I know never gets mentioned in most linguistic circles.
>
> [He really was a card-carrying Maoist, but I don't know if this is
> connected.]
>
> Maybe five years ago, gap of more than twenty years, I was reading Rosemary
> Huisman's +the written poem+ (another book worth looking at) and turns out
> he's teaching in Sydney University, and still writing books.
>
> Except that they're intelligible now.
>
> No wonder he isn't mentioned in linguistic circles.
>
> Which brings me to a sticker recently seen on the cover of a cheap
> notepad -- "My other notebook is a moleskin."
>
> Anyone who happens to be in Tesco at the moment can fire their creativity
> for only £1.45.  That's what it currently costs there buy a fountain pen
> with four ink cartridges [47p] and a 200 page (80 gms)  ring-bound
> microperforated A5 notebook [98p].
>
> Is this the end of capitalism as we know it?  For the life of me, I can't
> see how this makes any kind of commercial sense but I'm not about to argue.
>
> ... not mean but careful ...
>
> RR.
>


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