When copulating, beware falling into Deep Structures -

The Spectator - UK ^ | February 12, 2005 | Paul Johnson

[Larry Lucido]

Suspenders help.

[cripplecreek]

Good lord man you owe me an asprin. Did Jessie Jackson write that?

[OSHA]

Where are the copulation parts?

[Obadiah]

I consider myself reasonably intelligent. I have absolutely NO idea what that article says!

[Kay Syrah]

I'm going to take a coupla asprins and read this in the morning.

[cripplecreek]

what you've just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

[csmusaret]

It said MR Boy Pigs....MR Not Boy Pigs....OSAR CMP?....LIB MR Boy Pigs.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Having learned to ‘parse’ as a small boy, and done ten years of Latin and eight of Greek, I take it all for granted.

Is THAT what Clitoon's Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders meant? I never liked Parsely, or Brussels Sprouts either...

/clueless OFF
LOL.

[JoeSixPack1]

To quote feinswinesuksass on a related thread (LOL):

"My head just exploded!"

[Dog Gone]

It deserves harsher criticism than that. Take off the gloves.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I consider myself reasonably intelligent. I have absolutely NO idea what that article says!

As my mother says, "It must be intelligent, because I don't understand a word of it."

[sodpoodle]

and the last thing I remember was sitting atop the cupola sipping a percolated cappuchino, sliding ignominiously on the roofs until I was taken to hospital. Fortunately, I was found to be uncupolated.

take that!

[Aria]

Personally, I find the article and especially the comments exceedingly hilarious!!!!!!!!!!

[DeFault User]

I don't want to boldly go with no womyn drivers into no deep structures, especially if Noam Chomsky is considered a cunning linguist by this commentator.

[crazyhorse691]

I was trying to read the article, but, dang, it's 5 oclock here and I have important business with a single malt!!!

[DaGman]

"Where are the copulation parts?"

That's the only reason I read this thread!

[Billthedrill]

As Chris Jones, the St Andrews don, points out, ‘Plural marking in copulative compounds is still normally right-headed, but it may be that the less hierarchical syntax of a copulative compound, coupled with the fact that “woman” and “man” are mutation plurals (caused by i-mutation in the early Anglo-Saxon period), has caused some doubt in the minds of English speakers as to how they should form these compounds in the plural, giving us our women drivers.’

I wuz gonna say that.

[Kay Syrah]

You might enjoy this:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/community/postmodern.html

[Nick Danger]

Well, it was more entertaining than most grammar lessons. Sister Mary Yardstick never copulated, I'm sure of that.