Re: Yogi Berra Grammar

Bob Cunningham wrote:
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:34:55 -0700, Hatunen
<hatunen@xxxxxxx> said:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:25:26 GMT, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello, All!

For those on the other side of the Atlantic from me, Lawrence
Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri),
was a Major League Baseball player and manager who played almost
his entire career for the New York Yankees. He is quite possibly
the most quoted American but I am having difficulty finding an
official word for his typical quotations even if they are called
"Yogiisms", which looks awkward to me.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/y/yogi_berra.html

Just to give one: "Nobody goes to Coney Island anymore, it's too
crowded".

Can anyone help me?

The real question is how many Yogisms are attributed to Yogi even
though he didn't atually say them? Yogi's probably had more false
attributuibs than Dan Quayle, Mark Twain and George W Bush put
together.

Maybe even more than Sam Goldwyn? Or Mae West?

Mae: When I have a choice between two evils, I pick the one
I haven't tried before.

Sam: Gentlemen, include me out.

There's a long list of Goldwyn "quotes" at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html
. Mae West, at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mae_west.html .

Cruising the Brainy Quote site, I found this striking one
from Abraham Lincoln:

Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.

The Dubya quotes are not the usual kind, the ones that mock
his style. Most of them are thoughtful and significant.
This one is an exception:

I am mindful not only of preserving executive
powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

And this one has a good thought, but amusing grammar:

I have a different vision of leadership. A
leadership is someone who brings people together.

I checked to see if my favorite Bill Gates quote is there.
Sure enough, it is:

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

But I remembered it as being more like

Nobody will ever need more than 640K of memory.

Any comments on that Gates remark?


Sure

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484

"On the site, Gates takes questions from kids.
QUESTION: "I read in a newspaper that in l981 you said '640K of memory
should be enough for anybody.' What did you mean when you said this?"
ANSWER: "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that.
No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory
is enough for all time." "

Here's a denial at a conference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElDgsQAzrLo

(50 seconds in)

If he ever *did* say it in front of a camera, you can bet your sweet bippy
it would be on YouTube. If he said it in a magazine or newspaper interview,
you can bet it would be available on-line as a gif.

There's a more plausible quote here (him in 1989 reminiscing about 1981):
http://digg.com/microsoft/Bill_Gates_Thoughts_on_Microsoft_in_1989_2

"So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the
upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a
certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose
memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k
memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines.
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was
providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt
like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it
took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem"
--
John Dean
Oxford


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