RT list: In the Tradition of Kantotle-IZER

At 12:07 PM -0400 7/15/09, Jlsperanza@aol.com wrote:

>----Chapman continues:
>
>"However, he argues that Sperber ['s? -- JLS] and Wilson's
>account, far from clarifying [for him] this matter, in fact
>loses the significance of the link between relevance
>without specification of direction."

Well, one might note that being in touch with
language-as-it-is-used-today (or then) is not
necessarily a bad thing, however deeply one may
be ensconced (see Mark Twain) in one's cell with
thousands of Ur-texts weighing down upon one.

"Quand neuf Français sur dix font une faute ...
c'est le dixième qui a tort," dit Jacques Cellard
(29 Fév 1971). - Georges Mounin, Clefs pour la
langue Française, in the chapter on "Linguistique
et purisme," p. 33. (Mounin 1975)

So is poor Chapman is wrong? I doubt it. I read
every day and, as far as I can tell, Chapman's
usage is monnaie courante -- and has been so for
a very, very, very long time.

I'm not sure what J.L.'s point is. But I did have
third grade teachers who sounded amazingly like
him.

DM Donovan
Received on Sat Jul 18 01:05:58 2009