Saturday, June 3, 2006

Who will have the last word?

It's hard for a casual observer to know the truth, but here's an entertaining column in the Rocky Mountain News that's about journalists mangling, misinterpreting and otherwise messing up when it comes to writing about language.Columnist Linda Seebach quotes Geoffrey Pullum, a noted linguist from University of California: "I tell you honestly," Pullum writes, "I wish English had a word meaning '

No comments:

Post a Comment