Saturday 7 July 2012

Transformational Grammar (for Noam Chomsky)

You have to give it to the transformational linguistics academics who come up with witty slogans for T-shirts in their spare time.


I saw one on the Corfu-Igoumenitsa ferryboat this morning.

At first glance, it read "A Good Man is Hard to Find".

I looked again. It actually read:

"A Hard Man is Good to Find".

Not as original or academic as I thought: on its origins  Maybe Mae West?

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