Quibbling vs. Squabbling (was: Re: Syntax Grammars)

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 08 1999 - 10:04:32 EST


At 8:55 AM -0600 12/8/99, Steven Craig Miller wrote:
>To: Paul Zellmer,
>
><< While Brooks and Winbery is an appropriate book for the second year
>course of studies, it is, in fact, a "beginning syntax" which should be
>followed by an advanced syntax study/studies. >>
>
>Each to their own, I guess. But it seems silly to me to try to reduce
>everything to one of two extremes so that the only categories one has to
>work with are either "beginning" or "advanced."

Today we're quibbling with each other; yesterday we were squabbling. I
don't know that either is very edifying, but quibbling is a lot less
unpleasant, IMHO.
;-)

Carl W. Conrad
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