Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Theory snark

Mr. Verb mentions in an offhand way that some linguists consider Optimality Theory to be "the String Theory of our field." I wish! If that were the case, I'd have a cushy academic job instead of having to write ads for drugs.

For anyone interested, Eric takes Mr. Verb to task for his comments about opacity.

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