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- From: zwicky@csli.stanford.edu (Arnold Zwicky)
- Subject: misplaced modifier
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.163616.25775@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
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- Sender: zwicky@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Arnold Zwicky)
- Organization: outil, osu, stanford, lsa,...
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:36:16 GMT
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- trying to extract a little humor from wednesday's new york times
- article about chancellor fernandez backing down on the rainbow
- curriculum, i quote:
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- But many educators and parents complained that the text -
- prepared by a teacher who is a lesbian with little oversight -
- had a propagandistic tone...
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- yeah, josh barbanel *should* have written "prepared, with little
- oversight, by a teacher who is a lesbian" (assuming he was
- determined to bring in the teacher's sexual orientation). but
- there is a certain perverse pleasure to be gained from the image
- of lesbians with little oversight, roaming the land and stirring
- up trouble. ah, who will oversee the lesbians? quis custodiet
- sapphista:s? (not me, friends, not me.)
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- arnold (arisen from the Slimy Pit of Respiratory Viruses)
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