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[wombat]

It's definitely the same one.

I seem to recall he pronounced his last name differently from the famous one - like the town in Maryland instead.  But that didn't help me when reading it from a list for the first time.

Can we get Va to name her next baby David Bowie WhateverVa'slastnameis?  After the one she's going to name Wombat when it's born on my birthday, of course.

[miles]

It's definitely the same one.

I seem to recall he pronounced his last name differently from the famous one - like the town in Maryland instead.  But that didn't help me when reading it from a list for the first time.

Can we get Va to name her next baby David Bowie WhateverVa'slastnameis?  After the one she's going to name Wombat when it's born on my birthday, of course.

That is most excellent!  He pronounced it Boo-eee.  If that makes sense (I can't remember the IPA or whatever it's called, and I couldn't reproduce anyway on this this keyboard).  He didn't mind if we pronounced it like the rock star.  Was he a good student?

[miles]

And maybe he got this from you, Wombat...

One of his little quirks was that he would always say "barring pathology, (for example) at such and such stage of human development, the child will learn this and exhibit that..."  It got to the point where if he didn't say it, inevitably a class member would add, after such a comment, "barring pathology, of course."  He said he got it from a professor.

He also, almost exclusively, wore collar-less woven shirts.  In fact, the only time I saw him with a collared shirt was when I visited his office on a day he didn't have lecture.

But anyway, small world, indeed.

[AugustWest]

I took an excellent class in Transformational Grammar my senior year in undergrad.  It was my favorite class in my undergrad career.  A guy named Greg Stump taught it.  Any connection?

[wombat]

Yes, that's the pronunciation.  Yes, he was a good student, I think I wrote him a reccomendation to grad school.  He wanted to be a sociolinguist, which was originally what I'd wanted to be when I grew up, and I remember telling him to go to Penn, to study with the person who'd done the work that made me interested in it. I don't remember anything special about his shirts at the time.

He didn't get that particular locution from me - I'll bet it could have been a Maryland syntactician, though.

Greg Stump only sounds vaguely familiar. I feel like I ought to know him but it's lost in the mists of all that stuff I am trying to forget.  Googling reveals him to be a morphologist, so not really of my tribe.

[sjlimmer]

Greg Stump only sounds vaguely familiar. I feel like I ought to know him but it's lost in the mists of all that stuff I am trying to forget.

Hearing that you don't want to do what you went to grad school for is the saddest thing.  By the time grad school was over, I'd ended up doing something different from my original intent, but I can't imagine wanting to forget all about my research....

[wombat]

It's really not that sad.  Doing any one thing for fifteen years (more if I count undergrad school) is more than enough.  It's a big world with too many other possibilities.

[Bozack]

It's really not that sad.  Doing any one thing for fifteen years (more if I count undergrad school) is more than enough.  It's a big world with too many other possibilities.

I've actually found that after 6 months of anything, I'm ready to shit and/or go blind. I'm pretty much destined to be a hobo.

[AlohaDawg]

Man! I have to shit, like, once a day! You are Rad!