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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:49:26 EST
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- From: "Bruce E. Nevin" <bnevin@CCB.BBN.COM>
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- [From: Bruce Nevin (Mon 930125 11:17:47)]
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- (Bill Powers (930122.1430) ) --
-
- An excellent development!
-
- (Z_KURTZERML@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:36:31) --
-
- It looks to me as though you are assuming that your mailer
- software inserts returns at the ends of lines, and just letting
- the lines wrap on your screen where they will. Try inserting a
- return each time a line gets about as long as these are. My
- mailer software does not wrap lines. I have some pen marks along
- the top of my terminal. I them to calibrate my reference
- perceptions when I have to remember to wrap lines manually. (I
- usually call up a text editor from within the mailer program, and
- that wraps lines automatically.)
-
- (Greg Williams (930123) ) --
- (Avery.Andrews 930124.0435 ) --
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- Avery, what you bring to this especially is the fine-honed skills
- in academic polemics that are an explicit part of training in
- linguistics at MIT. Effective argumentation seems definitely to
- be in order. Your proposed outline illustrates the point nicely.
- Your contribution can be invaluable no matter who writes the
- piece.
-
- (In the past, that rhetorical style has infuriated me, but for
- rather different reasons. In arguing for PCT there is no need to
- distort facts the way e.g. Lees (review of _Syntactic
- Structures_), Postal (_Constituent Structures_, etc.) and many
- others have done, because in the present instance there is no
- need for straw men. The folly of the opposition is genuine,
- of their own making, and apparently universal.)
-
- (Robert K. Clark Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:52:00 ) --
- >Is offering sympathy "Positive Feedback?"
-
- Is an answering groan from another part of the avalanche positive
- feedback?
-
- Bruce
- bn@bbn.com
-