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Latest comment: 9 years ago by Cnilep in topic Emmon Bach

Unappealing

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I suspect that this was an opinion inserted by the editor who wrote it, and not an essential idea about the "universal grinder" phenomenon:

sentences made using the "universal grinder" can sometimes appear unappealing

Pelltier makes no such claim. In fact, some of his examples (mashed potato, [ground] steak) seem downright appealing to me. Of course, that's just my opinion. More importantly, I can find no one asserting that the "universal grinder" produces "unappealing" sentences. Or more precisely, I can find this exact sentence on the web, but those cases were almost certainly copied from Wikipedia. I cannot find this idea in books or scholarly articles. Cnilep (talk) 04:12, 29 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Emmon Bach

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If memory serves, I think Emmon Bach was the first to use "universal packager", but I can't seem to find a reliable source to verify this.

  • Bach, Emmon (February 1986). "The Algebra of Events". Linguistics and Philosophy. 9 (1).

Cnilep (talk) 05:25, 18 October 2016 (UTC)Reply