anybody been following the development of this over at Language Log?
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/

made me think of home...

(once this link dies you'll be able to find these in the May 2004 archives at that site)

I'd just as soon "ghits" not stick around, myself. It resonates with that negative association mentioned, and so IMO should not be applied to such a lovely creation.

We may need a national standards committee to make recommendations to a central council standing executive committee which will then report to the membership at large through delegates to a national congress... yawn... I never wanted to become a national standards administrator. I'm a grammarian. Grammar is fun. Grammar is exciting.

Ha! Great paragraph. I'm not entirely sure if the last few sentences are intended to be sarcastic or not, but either way it's great.