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2004:01:07

996 - No negation here

I'm more than a bit ambivalent about the negation thread I've started on cogling. That's not a list where I want to stir the pot; on the contrary, that's the place I most want to be able to lurk and ask freely. But I've stuck my foot in it. The thread's gone on for 25+ posts, which is "up-there" for that list.

And the feeling of having stepped in it is in no small part of what's driven me to Harris' "The Linguistic Wars." I feel suddenly like I better get a clearer picture of the players and the program before shooting off my mouth too much more. Only I can't seem to leave well enough alone. Some of the responses seem to be inviting further comment from me. Some just seem so, well, wrong, that I can't help asking further about them, and giving my side, my understanding. In the end I fear I will learn that cogling isn't the place for me, that my own views are too set and too at odds with the orthodoxies of that list. And so I really *am* going to try to hang back a bit, get back to lurking asap, work on the Harris book instead.

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