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trocheeGeoffrey Pullum at Language Log coins revives a great phrase for prescriptivists: which-hunters and semicolonoscopists.
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q_pheevr points out in the comments here that at least which-hunters is not original. I'm would have bet semicolonoscopy is original, but Google suggests it's not lexically unique to Pullum.
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q_pheevr points out in the comments here that at least which-hunters is not original. I'm would have bet semicolonoscopy is original, but Google suggests it's not lexically unique to Pullum.
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Date: 2004-11-29 11:07 pm (UTC)Cf. CLS 8.
Further evidence that all the good linguistics puns were made in the early seventies.
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Date: 2004-11-30 12:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
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