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Compared to latkes??which Dershowitz said are also highly addictive—it is possible to just eat one hamantash, a triangular cookie often containing poppy-seed filling...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latkes vs. Hamantashen: The Promised Food | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latkes vs. Hamantashen: The Promised Food | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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