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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. > -- http://www.badstep.net/ http://www.cb1poetry.org.uk/ "From the waist downwards, Bloodnok was tattooed with a pair of false legs... facing the wrong way."