🚀 go-pugleaf

Kalen,
I like your reply and was going to set all replies to my post to
sci.lang so we could take this out of the autism newsgroup. But it may
be that D. Edward Gund v. Brighoff, with his lack of social grace and
obsessive pursuit of pedantic detail might strike a chord with some of
us.So i will continue the cross posting for a while. But may I repeat
Kalen's admonition to all the worthies in sci.lang that
bit.listserv.autism is a support group for parents, professionals and
individuals with autism? Difficulties with language is one of the
diagnostic criteria for autism so please direct all your linguistic
flames, advice and corrections to stanton@clara.co.uk Failure to do
this will result in certain mathematical savants on the listserv
extending the crossposting to sci.math and we don't want that do we?
:-)))

Meanwhile, let the fun commence. 
Anyone who posts on sci.lang ought at least to use the spell checker
>ennumerate
write out one hundred times "enumerate has only one n."

How about typos? (colloquialism meaning typographical errors)
>I urge those of you who are curious to read on of the introductory works...
"on of the introductory works"?! Shouldn't that be "one"?

The next one is just bad grammar or really sloppy use of language.
(very un-sci if you ask me :-))

>This is really a very basic question that can has been asked and answered many times already.
Do you mean "can" or "has"? You cannot have "can has" in the same
sentence and make sense. But you can have "cannot have," or even "can
have," as I have. :-) 

>_Cambridge encyclopedia of language_
Now is it all supposed to be in Title Case or are we in e e cummings
territory here? BTW since when did _ replace " in English punctuation?
I presume that you mean "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language" by
David Crystal?

>anaphora
 
Kalen asked:
>And anaphora is?
It is a technical term, not in general usage, taken from the Greek and
means "repetition."
It is the rhetorical devise of starting a succession of sentences or
lines with the same word or phrase.
Or it can mean just the opposite: the use of a word such as "it" or
"do" to avoid repetition of a previous word or phrase. 
I too would be curious to learn what this has to do with gender,
unless it is another typo and he meant to write "anaphrodisiac" which
means, "tending to diminish sexual desire." That is usually, in my
experience, a gender issue.


>> Again, 
>> listed in the sci.lang FAQ, like the _Cambridge encyclopedia of language_.
>
>Sounds daunting. Why can't you just answer the question instead of
>being so condescending?
>
>> 
>
>Well who started cross-posting this anyway? It was supposed to be on
>an autism NG where it is not assumed that we know a great deal about
>linguistics or are linguistic geniuses. People there are pleased if
>we can speak (one language)!

Mike Stanton

Millennium bug? What millennium...............Bugger!