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Peter T. Daniels

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From: "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@att.net>

Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 11:38:12 GMT

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Subject: Re: Lessons in Logic for Linguisticians

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Alexander Gross wrote:

> Gary, good to see you!

> Shades of alt.fan.noam-chomsky!

> My god, I've been doing this for two years now (though only
> intermittently :-) ). Pretty close to time for me to consider
> stopping. Actually, I will be stopping, later tonight, at least for
> the next six months.

Note that he failed to acknowledge the two serious replies to his
so-called questions. He also failed to keep his promised appointment
(prelude to stalking, probably) at an NYU lecture on Friday. Probably
because this week he's being "Paul," who's "in Europe." Oh, and the
e-mails in which he threatened to make this personal appearance were
quite abusive, but I don't publish private e-mails.

> I'm a bit more organized this time around, as you can see from my
> website, URL as below, with many publications by me and others.
> Only about 20% of it is about linguistics, and only about a third of
> that deals with the Great Beast.

> As I recall, you were one of more pleasant ones there, as opposed
> to somebody named Jim who continually denounced me or Nathan at
> Stanford who insisted that any day now they would prove all this
> stuff by constructing "a perfect replica of the human brain."

> In any case, glad to see you!

> very best,

> alex

> visit the language home... http://language.home.sprynet.com

> Gary Holden <gahol...@nowaitrose.spamcom> wrote in message
> news:140420012110555173%gaholden@nowaitrose.spamcom...
> > In article <9b2o26$bk...@slb0.atl.mindspring.net>, Alexander Gross
> > <langu...@sprynet.com> wrote:

> > > No, I did NOT "claim that everybody from Aristotle to Chomsky,
> > > including everybody else on sci.lang, was really in search of a
> > > perfect language." This is total nonsense, no more than the usual
> > > strawman ploy.

> > Hi Alex - I see you've got the Grossbot doing irony now. Or do you
> > still need human intervention for that?

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Peter T. Daniels gramma...@worldnet.att.net

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