maandag 6 juni 2011

Fudge

Wetenschappelijke kritiek is soms heerlijk om te lezen.

"So linguists fudge [...] by sticking on the arbitrary feature +REFL. Such a feature is a fudge. It might just as well be called +CHOCOLATE, which would in fact be a better name, since it would clearly reveal the nature of the fudge."

Lakoff (1972: ii)