Having seen a tip to the existence of this on the Language Log, I searched for and found a small bit of a standup routine performed by Alexandra McHale that addresses this SALAD-salad thing. It’s, you know, a standup routine (aired on Comedy Central). The relevant bit is at the very end.

Although not really directly related to the topic of the class, there was a short discussion of the recent claims about Pirahã made by Dan Everett, and the response formulated by Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky, and Cilene Rodrigues. The response was to Everett’s article in Current Anthropology, which can be found on Dan Everett’s web …

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