Bob Cunningham wrote:
> > credoquaabsurdum wrote:
> > > I'm also not quite clear on exactly what a determiner is, and well,
> > > neither are many professional grammarians.
>
> Picture a PhD aspirant at his wits end trying to come up
> with a topic for his dissertation. Finally in desperation
> he thinks up a bunch of new names for old concepts and
> manages to delude his committee into thinking the resulting
> dissertation is original and significant.
>
> Thus is born the determiner, a new way to talk about certain
> kinds of adjectives that had quite satisfactory names to
> begin with.
As a one-time PhD candidate, I find your comments objectionable,
willfully antagonizing and openly prejudiced in the extreme against
organized academia.
And, of course, it's not the grad students' fault. It's the PROFESSORS,
you see, and the journal editors, and the tenure committees pushing for
publications...
Watch the dancing buck!
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