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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Grice Misquoted

There is a Chinese website dedicated to the philosophy of Grice. It´s mainly in Chinese except for a few, shall I say, typos, in English alright. They claim that the "H" in "H. P. Grice" stands for "Henry".

In any case, it´s better that that big misquote by Chomsky. In his 1966, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, he quotes Grice in the index as being

"A. P. Grice"

My reconstruction:

"We´re proofreading your book, Prof. Chomsky."

"So?".

"You have "Grice, P." -- is this _the_ Grice?"

"Yes, why?".

"We thought "P" was his second initial. Wasn´t he A. `/ei/ P., or H. /eitch/ P. or W. /wei/ P.?"

"I´m pretty sure it´s /ei/ P."

"Thanks, doc."

JLS

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