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Jerry Friedman - 29 Jul 2009 19:45 GMT

I happened to cruise by Language Log today. Some here might enjoy
this post, maybe especially the second comment.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1592

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Jerry Friedman

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Peter Duncanson (BrE) - 29 Jul 2009 19:57 GMT

>I happened to cruise by Language Log today. Some here might enjoy
>this post, maybe especially the second comment.
>
>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1592

Thank you.

The second comment is to be enjoyed like a piece of music. Any attempt
by the reader to analyse it will destroy the effect.

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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

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tsuidf - 29 Jul 2009 22:36 GMT

On Jul 29, 8:57 pm, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <m...@peterduncanson.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:45:14 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Friedman
>
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> The second comment is to be enjoyed like a piece of music. Any attempt
> by the reader to analyse it will destroy the effect.

If only. I remember law faculty meetings that spent hours on motions
phrased similarly. I once asked a colleague why we were spending so
much time on procedural matters to which her stage whispered reply was
'Because none of these people have ever had -- a REAL job!'

No kidding....

cheers,
Stephanie
in Brussels

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Glenn Knickerbocker - 29 Jul 2009 22:59 GMT

> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1592

This reminds me of what Matt McIrvin wrote long ago about Bonsai Kitty
in message <mmcirvin-1806011912030001@192.168.123.1>:

> The notion of objecting to a fake Web site on the grounds that it might
> possibly incite other people to do bad things is so dangerous to our
> constitutionally protected freedoms that it must never be mentioned,
> even in jest.

¬R

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Adam Funk - 30 Jul 2009 10:35 GMT

>> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1592
>
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>> constitutionally protected freedoms that it must never be mentioned,
>> even in jest.

But when are you and he going to explain the joke?

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Taken on the whole however this is a fine disc and a good example of
the current pop scene attempting to break out of its vulgarisms and
sometimes downright obscene derivative hogwash.
(Julian Stone-Mason B.A., 1972)

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