In a message dated 2/23/2005 10:11:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, "David J. Weller-Fahy" <dave-lists-dragaera at weller-fahy.com> writes: > I just did some searching on google, and was unable to find an > attribution for the original. Would someone please point me > at the proper place to look? I like the idea behind the > corollary, but what's the full text? Trying to find the original source... hrm, Google Groups isn't returning any hits prior to 2000, but I did find this link: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-499.html which includes a link to the original article from 1990 (footnote 4). The corrolary: http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=b7hhm4%24qk1%241%40panix1.panix.com --KG