Word: hamantashen
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Even worse than being grammatical gaffes, hamantashen are also morally wrong, Pinker insisted...
...poppy? For the chosen people, it’s been an age-old debate over their chosen food. And last night, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker evoked health, terrorism, and evolution to end the dispute between latkes and hamantashen once...
Sticking to his schtick of linguistic analysis, Pinker derided hamantashen for being an irregular plural. Using the Wug Test—a common linguistic experiment—Pinker showed that “latke” to “latkes” is a progression of a regular plural form and therefore “part of our innate universal grammar” while “hamantashen” belongs to a scanty contingency of irregular plurals in English that...
...grandmother doesn't love me, Coach's notes included, "Needs an example of how wonderful the airline meal was." And after my sentence, "She's suddenly clued in to the fact that I am here to replace her," he added, "Which is ridiculous because I could never make a hamantashen with a crust as flaky as hers." Coach worked a little ethnic for my taste...