Posted by Ian on November 07, 2000 at 20:32:24 from 195.147.217.185:
In Reply to: Eskimo vocabulary posted by Robert Dilley on November 07, 2000 at 19:08:14:
Pullum, G. 1991. The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language. University of
Chicago Press, Chicago.
another quote, apropos of nothing - honest :-)
(pg. 30)
"...I regard 'Linguistic Inquiry' as a miserable trash-stuffed rag of a journal through which the pathetic
blitherings of an army of knuckle-dragging intellectual toadies are shepherded to prominence by the
unprincipled back-room machinations of a pea-brained lackwit of an editor whose fawning subservience
to the power clique that controls modern linguistics is matched only by his contempt for civilized
standards when dealing with the work of those whose integrity prevents them from prostituting their
scholarship by kowtowing to the self-ordained guardians of a baseless pseudo-theoretical hegemony. I
can't imagine frankly, why I still subscribe."
also like his golden rules