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[sedesdraconis]

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I saw Dr. Ladefoged. Sometimes called the most important phonetician in the world. He presented phonetic arguments against UG, and argued for langauge being a self-organizing social system. Which works for me.

Oh, and the "Current Music" came on totally randomly, I swear!

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[quixote322]

You met a descendent of Thomas Paine?!! OH MY. He's one of my heros.

I saw the house where he lived in England until the Brits kicked him out in 1774. I was like a deranged teenie-bopper. I stroked the walls because he may have touched them.

[sedesdraconis]

I hadn't actually gone back and [i]read[/i] my previous post, I only remembered the first name, so I was very confused for a bit there, thinking you knew something about Ladefoged I didn't. It would be really weird for Ladefoged to be a descendant of Thomas Paine. Ladefoged, despite 30-odd years of teaching at UCLA, has a distinct British accent.

Heh, I remember watching a mini-series on the Revolutionary War era in my US history class in high school: it had dramatic re-enactments, dramatic readings of contemporary documents, and litle pieces of some historians addressing certain points.

Other people in the class would occasionally recognize some of the actors. I kept recognizing and getting excited about the historians :) "Oh, neat, John Keegan." and "Oh my God! It's Claude! Oh my God!" The other people in the class thought I was weird.

[quixote322]

Been there. I used to get really excited during those series too. I know which Revolutionary War series you're talking about.

I'd get excited over David McCullogh and Stephen Ambrose.