Re: Never violate a universal unless it seems like a good idea atthe time

At 11:15 PM 9/4/03 -0400, you wrote:
>  --- Isidora Zamora wrote:
> > And I'll have to tell my husband all this about languages "violating"
> > universals.  He's been laughing lately when I've talked about
> > "illegal consonant clusters."  It put the image in his mind of the
> > language police coming out and arresting you or something for having
> > illegal consonant clusters :-)
>
>Beautiful!!!!!   (I love this kind of buried pun!)
Actually, he is now telling me that it is more like a SWAT team jumping out
and surrounding you with assault weapons trained on you.  "Hands up,
Buddy!  Drop it!"

And I am ROTFL.

Isidora