From hombre!uunet!cbmvax!snark!lojbab Sat Sep 8 22:45:20 1990 Return-Path: Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.1) id ; Sat, 8 Sep 90 22:45 EDT Received: by hombre.MASA.COM (smail2.5) id AA08093; 8 Sep 90 22:45:43 EDT (Sat) Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with UUCP id AA26483; Sat, 8 Sep 90 07:07:05 -0400 Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore Jan 13 1990) id AA24183; Sat, 8 Sep 90 06:58:33 EDT Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (smail2.3) id AA20070; 8 Sep 90 05:41:56 EDT (Sat) To: cowan@marob.masa.com Subject: good work Date: 8 Sep 90 05:41:56 EDT (Sat) From: uunet!cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!lojbab Message-Id: <9009080541.AA20070@snark.thyrsus.com> Status: RO I like the way you are handling Parmenter. He's been on our list for 3 years, and I knew he was supporting us, but I had never managed to get him to actually say why. It appears that he doesn't know as much about linguistics as I was told that he did. (He has the nickname 'Random', which is why I was unsympathetic to est's touting of people called 'Randoms' on the net). I have some more detailed comments on things that have been said, which I'll try to put together into a message. I'm not sure that I got all the messages though, so keep archiving. I presume that we need to ask these people for permission if we want to use their messages in JL. Your exchanges with Parmenter and the couple of other comments on what he wrote seem like good fare for the community. Can you send messages to each of the contributors asking for their OK to reprint? est seems to have dropped out - I'm getting bounces on his nyu address. Can you check? Did you ever talk to Nancy Thalblum (she's on the list via Compuserve, but I haven't ever heard from her)? Keep it up. You know more linguistics than I do, at least from being able to call Parmenter on his faulty assumptions. -lojbab