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Memo Clarifying the Recent List of Banned Words

by Rhee Smog

As you probably know, there was a bit of uproar after we here at the Minimalist Institute for Talk-Studies (MIT) released our memo banning certain words and phrases and providing other helpful usage notes for faculty communications. While critics derided it all as prescriptivist pish posh, there are solid reasons for all of the proscriptions.

The Linguolabial StopsDeedles D’Dee
Apollo 11 and Generative GrammarPhyllis Fabergé
SpecGram Vol CLXXXV, No 3 Contents