J. K. Hoffman said:
>
> But, I'm an almost
> total non-linguist. I mean, I've never had a formal class in
> linguistics and what tiny bit I know I dragged, kicking and screaming,
> from some of the driest textbooks I have ever read. Unfortunately,
> _Describing Morphosyntax_ is one of those, for me.
What is it exactly that makes you experience these books as 'dry'? I'm
curious because I can easily imagine that most non-linguists find much of
what I write 'dry' in the same way. But I wouldn't know where to start to
make it any wetter...
-- Mark