Date:  Fri, 24 Dec 1993 10:44:40 -0600

From:  Dennis Baron <baron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU>

Subject: new words at ads



Yes, dInIs, I meant ADS, not MLA. I never was much of a

phonologist. Or phoneticist. When I was in graduate school

in the middle ages I created an annual award, modeled on the

Oscar, for academic bests. It was called the PaMeLA, and

consisted of a cap-and-gowned critter of indeterminate sex

(yes, even then gender-neutral) holding a garbage can,

above the motto, "Put out the light, and then put out the

trash." The first and only recipient of the PaMeLA statuette

(which itself was only realized on paper, not in 3-d) was

a diss. culled from the annual MLA Bibliography entitled, "The

image of the hopping robin in the early poetry of Emily Dickinson."



Perhaps there are more awards in the offing, though I always find

the press send-ups of MLA to be genuinely unfair, and seeing the

looks of fear and over-confidence in our graduate students heading

north for interviews makes me anxious and sad. Toronto is north

of Urbana, innit?



Dennis (the other one)

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