tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post3288304128096698202..comments2024-03-22T22:27:18.642-07:00Comments on The Hasbara Buster: Dershowitz: A liar -- and an illiterate one at thatIbrahim Ibn Yusufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09839484683464457225noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-91795721459577684462011-10-08T13:58:17.077-07:002011-10-08T13:58:17.077-07:00I saw really much worthwhile info in this post!I saw really much worthwhile info in this post!www.colchones.cnhttp://www.colchones.cnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-60057313223550741402010-11-10T01:55:36.414-08:002010-11-10T01:55:36.414-08:00hi……………………
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...<i>Well, I didn't think we were fencing, Ibrahim</i><br /><br />Yes, we are fencing! To paraphrase a nonexistent British official: "I don't get corrected by people; I correct them"!<br /><br />Just kidding.Ibrahim Ibn Yusufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839484683464457225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-58957201317857371022010-02-17T06:40:58.449-08:002010-02-17T06:40:58.449-08:00See? It's begun. We don't stand a chance...See? It's begun. We don't stand a chance.andrew rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-711089494980916022010-02-16T08:33:21.516-08:002010-02-16T08:33:21.516-08:00I get why anon is here. To lure us into a false s...I get why anon is here. To lure us into a false sense of complacency by acting ridiculously stupid. Then he brings out his smart friends who will smear us from wall to wall. Come on anon, it's been two years now. Your scheme must be coming to fruition.andrew rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-78482464369715243282010-02-16T00:48:40.477-08:002010-02-16T00:48:40.477-08:00Well, I didn't think we were fencing, Ibrahim,...Well, I didn't think we were fencing, Ibrahim, at least not on this occasion. I just reckon we can combat hasbara best if we stick to the issues and leave the ad hominems, the foot shooting, the sloppy reasoning, and the outright fabrications to the hasbaristas. They <b>are</b> so good at it, after all.<br /><br />I hasten to add that as far as I'm concerned, sentence final prepositions and split infinitives are not errors. Nor do I have any problem with a non native speaker making a mistake like <i>costed</i>, or indeed, with anyone making any trivial grammatical or typographical error. As a matter of fact, I agree that Dershowitz ought to be embarrassed by the kind of egregious errors you point out, but I think little could be clearer than that embarrassment is not in Dershowitz's emotional repertoire.<br /><br />I don't have a handle on all the tools that are available these days for corpus analysis, but I can sort of imagine the kinds of things you can do now in minutes that would have required hundreds of hours of card sorting in the old days. And phonology must be a whole new ball game, too, when anyone with a laptop and a microphone can do the kind of acoustic analysis we used to need huge machines to do.<br /><br />Obviously, I don't do linguistics in my current incarnation, but I do have a passing interest in some phenomena I've noticed in Turkish - like suffixing tense and person/number marking to case marked forms of nouns, e.g. <i>ev</i> 'house' - <i>evde</i> 'at home' - <i>evdeyim</i> 'I'm at home' - <i>evdeydim</i> 'I was at home'. Insane!<br /><br />No, I had no idea Harvard gave you the sack, or why, or indeed that you were ever there in the first place. Do you know Susumu Kuno? I did a course on Empathy with him at the LSA institute in 1976. Anyway, <br />while I'm interested in hearing about your personal life, perhaps you'd prefer to discuss it more privately. I think you know how to contact me.Ernie Halfdramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06463362099448607727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-30106090854405180342010-02-15T18:49:05.104-08:002010-02-15T18:49:05.104-08:00Utterly touché, Ernie. By the way, did you know th...Utterly <i>touché</i>, Ernie. By the way, did you know that those mistakes are what I was fired from Harvard over? (Yes, that's a preposition at the end of a sentence!)<br /><br />I've corrected "costed" because I'm perfectly aware of the irregularity and it's not a mistake I would normally make. On the other hand, I've left the split infinitive in place since it accurately reflects my insufficient knowledge of the finer points of English grammar. It simply doesn't sound wrong to me.<br /><br />When I write facetiously I tend to convey some wrong ideas, for instance that us (OK, <i>we!</i>) linguists mainly concern ourselves with spelling. We do other things. For instance, right at this moment I'm constructing a theory that would explain all uses of <i>atrás</i> and <i>detrás</i>, accurately predicting the distribution of both words in standard Spanish speech, which hasn't been done yet. (You know -- the world might stop turning if I don't come up with the explanation.) <br /><br />(I also do spelling correction, but in my main breadwinning job as an editor, for which my training as a linguist helps, but is not essential, required or even very important.)<br /><br />All that being said, I tend to think that the words "imminent" and "eminent" appear frequently enough in litigation that an attorney should be able to tell them from each other. He probably has his affidavits written for him by some faithful student.Ibrahim Ibn Yusufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839484683464457225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-44278557626755683832010-02-15T15:56:08.633-08:002010-02-15T15:56:08.633-08:00Dershowitz is always 'at it again' and whi...Dershowitz is always 'at it again' and while one tries to resist the temptation to go for an easy mark like him, somebody's got to do it. http://bureauofcounterpropaganda.blogspot.com/2007/06/dershowitz-farts.html<br /><br />In my view, Ibrahim, you comprehensively nailed the bastard in the first four paragraphs of your post, but with all due respect, 'as an aside', back in the day, linguists by and large would not stoop to excoriating people for their misspellings. It's akin to ridiculing people for their names, or funny accents, or appearance. We used to call those who obsessed over 'correctness' and prescriptive grammar as 'Miss Fidditch'. But you couldn't really be Miss Fidditch, because she would never be caught splitting an infinitive, e.g. 'to proudly display', much less arbitrarily applying the non-present tense marking characteristic of English weak verbs, 'may have <b>costed</b> him the book censorship'.Ernie Halfdramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06463362099448607727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-81730434184642413262010-02-15T12:26:46.319-08:002010-02-15T12:26:46.319-08:00I is in compleat agreenemt with you, Ibriham...I is in compleat agreenemt with you, Ibriham...Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-65662196042944006942010-02-15T11:37:54.295-08:002010-02-15T11:37:54.295-08:00Hahaha... Da problem seems to be jeneralyzed.Hahaha... Da problem seems to be jeneralyzed.Ibrahim Ibn Yusufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839484683464457225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-49121312721545524362010-02-15T09:03:36.380-08:002010-02-15T09:03:36.380-08:00"[...] you're team [...]", Anonymous...<i>"[...] you're team [...]"</i>, Anonymous?Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-83106143486150501792010-02-15T05:33:45.484-08:002010-02-15T05:33:45.484-08:00Well, you're team can't do much better!
M...Well, you're team can't do much better!<br /><br />My Kingdom for a Nazi With Spelling Skills<br /><br />15 Feb 2010 07:44 am<br />From the C-Span mailbag:<br />I read that you want to stop cspan from brodcasting the truth about jews in america. well, no luck jew. your out of luck. the people are coming and rising and thell overthrow the jewish dominaton of the media. so count your days and if i was you id get a boat to isreal quick.<br /><br />http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/02/my_kingdom_for_a_nazi_with_spe.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-68480629215638864182010-02-14T11:33:03.263-08:002010-02-14T11:33:03.263-08:00When Walt and Mearsheimer published their article ...When Walt and Mearsheimer published their article on The Israel Lobby, a Zionist friend of mine asked me to read Jerkowitz' 'refutation' of said article. I didn't get much beyond page two, so badly written I thought it was. In the very first paragraph he used the term 'cabal' (d'yageddit?), when W & M never used such a term throughout their piece. But Jerkowitz knew how to set the tone, just as he does with Goldstone...Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781379104401133933.post-2011883648257068442010-02-13T12:33:05.162-08:002010-02-13T12:33:05.162-08:00Hasbara @ York caught lying. Be sure to post this...Hasbara @ York caught lying. Be sure to post this <br /><br />http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7979Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com