From newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!nexus.yorku.ca!tony Tue Nov 19 11:09:38 EST 1991
Article 1266 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis)
Subject: Re: Sapir-Whorf
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 14:03:41 GMT

Michael (MORIARTY@NDSUVM1), from atop a pendantic pedestal :
| ..As an English professor, .. I do know that undergraduate English
| has no subjunctive.  But they seem able to communicate  ..

Many of us (we?) professors have exquisite command of English grammar,
but are unable to communicate with (to?) our undergraduates.

:-), but I am also being serious about Sapir-Whorf.

--
tony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada


