McKenzie friend

The term McKenzie friend has been discussed here before - here's the first entry, and later I quoted the OED definition, and finally the original McKenzie friend commented - see PDF. On Language Log, Mark Liberman has now found a McKenzie friend who seems more dangerous to the understanding of language than many a judge. The syntax, and I am the judge in 1988 who wrote the mathematical interface on all 5,000 languages proving that language is a linear equation in algebra certifying that all words have 900 definitions through this mathematical algebraic formu…

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