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question: ivory tower
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| Author: | Misha Becker | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Historical Linguistics
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| Subject Language(s): |
English
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| Query: |
Hi linguists,
Does anyone know how the term ''ivory tower'' came to refer to academia, and especially why it has a disparaging connotation? Did it always have this connotation? Thanks! Misha Becker mbecker@ucla.edu Having got myself into a discussion of phonology (not my linguistic forte) on another net.forum, I feel it's time to appeal to the experts for advice. Questions: * Do I understand correctly that the Maximal Onset Principle implies that a VCCV sequence will always be syllabified as V-CCV if the CC cluster in question can occur word-initially in the same language? * Is the Maximal Onset Principle an absolute universal? If not, what are (some of) the exceptions? Gratefully, - Ivan A Derzhanski - ---- Hi Folks: My mother used to sing us to sleep with a lullaby that SOUNDED as follows: Zeem, zeem, zeem Aleman prozeem leiko Pero pero mi patroon Sananko mi koket Boochi chalie Pan kaki=F1a Yoko pra Pra, pra I would like to identify the lullaby, the language in which it is written and, of course, the translation. Any help will be greatly appreciated. If it of any help, I learned this lullaby (on Aruba) phonetically since my mother knew the song but not its meaning. Thanks, agatha |
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| LL Issue: | 8.391 | |
| Date posted: | 18-Mar-1997 | |
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