Re: book copy (Douglas Eck )


Subject: Re: book copy
From:    Douglas Eck  <eckdoug@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:33:20 -0400
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--0015175cb032d2b8f3046799aa19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Continuing the side-tracking: As a grad student at Indiana, I laid out some crackpot theory in class with the preamble: "Well, of course, I'm not a phoneticist but I think..." and Bob Port (or Fred Cummins? or Mike Gasser? I can't remember who) burst out laughing and said: "CLEARLY you're not. They're called *phoneticians*" That quieted me down. Did I get it right? To this day I overcorrect... can never remember what those people call themselves :-) Douglas Eck (Computer Scientist, thank you) --0015175cb032d2b8f3046799aa19 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Continuing the side-tracking:<br>As a grad student at Indiana, I laid out s= ome crackpot theory in class with the preamble: <br>&quot;Well, of course, = I&#39;m not a phoneticist but I think...&quot;<br>and Bob Port (or Fred Cum= mins? or Mike Gasser? I=A0 can&#39;t remember who) burst out laughing and s= aid:<br> &quot;CLEARLY you&#39;re not. They&#39;re called *phoneticians*&quot;<br><b= r>That quieted me down. <br><br>Did I get it right? To this day I overcorre= ct... can never remember what those people call themselves :-)<br><br>Dougl= as Eck<br> (Computer Scientist, thank you)<br><br> --0015175cb032d2b8f3046799aa19--


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