Senior seminar digression of the day (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Friday, 24 February 2006

Senior seminar digression of the day

Only one of my students was apparently aware of Paul Simon’s song “You Can Call Me Al” from Graceland; it came up when we were trying to figure out what to call Al Gore’s dad. Some didn’t actually know who Paul Simon is—the ex-senator or the singer.

Of course, I couldn’t manage to pronounce the name of Al Senior’s fellow senator Estes Kefauver, so I guess we came out even on this score.

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1. Alfred Sumrall wrote @ Sat, 25 Feb 2006, 7:49 am CST:

Turn the “v” into an “f” and bam, you got it. Now, grasshopper, WHY did the “v” take the sound of an “f?” A linguist, I am not.

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