I am certain no one has ever said *this* sentence before

Jan 28, 2009 20:40

"So who are the sucka MCs that Chomsky is layin' it down for in this section?"

(Answer: behaviorists.)

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thedeli January 29 2009, 02:40:37 UTC
Extract from the John McWhorter Lecture Series.

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alsoname January 29 2009, 21:35:23 UTC
Sounds like something he'd say.

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thedeli January 29 2009, 22:50:03 UTC
Being totally down wit the East Coast posse, as he demonstrably is.

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tebing January 29 2009, 23:26:46 UTC
Nice guess, but it's actually something my department's newly-hired* compling professor said in his seminar yesterday. He's inordinately fond of throwing in random bits of hip-hop slang whenever he's talking about linguistics. I'm still trying to decide whether this lecturing style of his is amusing, or annoying.

He's also one of the last remaining fans of Weezer. (Not that that has anything to do with anything.)

*He's actually only about a year or two older than me...yet another sign that it's time for me to finish already!

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