Saturday, July 14, 2012

Guess the quote

Seriously, guess who wrote it. Linguist, well known one, writing in a major publication.
as in all surgery performed with Occam's scalpel, there is the constant danger of severing an artery. I believe we can and should avoid that.

6 comments:

  1. Janda? Just a wild guess, though.

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  2. Nope, though it has his wit to it, doesn't it?

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  3. Anonymous4:30 PM

    Hockett?

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  4. Good guess. Any particular reason?

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  5. Anonymous11:58 AM

    I put a partial quote into google scholar actually, not my erudite knowledge of Hockett.

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  6. Damn, I'd googled the whole thing and didn't get anything. Oh well.

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