an update on the cows, and linguistic snark
emilianna3, i'm not sure if you stay up to date with the language log, but i thought you'd find this post amusing. a follow up to the cow mooing issue. apparently other folks want spectrograms, too!
my favorite part?
this quote from john wells, the phoneticist "interviewed" for the article:
"The PR company issued a press release. They showed it to me only after they had sent it out, which meant that it was too late for me to protest that they had put into my mouth the solecism 'This phenomena is...'. Of course I would always say only 'This phenomenon is...' or 'These phenomena are'."
i love linguistic snark.
my favorite part?
this quote from john wells, the phoneticist "interviewed" for the article:
"The PR company issued a press release. They showed it to me only after they had sent it out, which meant that it was too late for me to protest that they had put into my mouth the solecism 'This phenomena is...'. Of course I would always say only 'This phenomenon is...' or 'These phenomena are'."
i love linguistic snark.