May 28, 2004

Apostropher gets 4625 whG/Gp

Posted by apostropher

Geoffrey Pullum, a UC-Santa Cruz professor of linguistics who writes books like this one (which I covet badly) is proposing standard units and abbreviations for search engine hits. As you might expect from the co-author of an 1860-page book on grammar, the process is very, um, specific.

(tip: locus solus)

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To Geoffrey Pullum with Love,

You had me at "spelling reform proposals"

But then you lost me at the bureaucracy advocations.

Posted by: LSU Student at May 28, 2004 04:43 PM