Re: THEORY: third-person imperatives

Ed Heil wrote:

> Down with Chomsky and modularity!  Up with Cognitive Grammar and related
> theories!  Viva la revolucion!  Eat at Taco Bell!
Org.  Why did you have to include the last line?  "It's not the
proletariat I object to, it's the proletariat's Mexican food."

        Higgledy piggledy, my white hen
        She lays eggs for gentlemen.
        You cannot persuade her with gun or lariat
        To come across for the proletariat.
                -- Dorothy Parker

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)