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:

ALM said...

Janda? Just a wild guess, though.

Mr. Verb said...

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

Anonymous said...

Hockett?

Mr. Verb said...

Good guess. Any particular reason?

Anonymous said...

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

Mr. Verb said...

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