Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912–December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics and coiner of the terms "emic" and "etic".
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“And one is of an old half-witted sheep
Which bleats articulate monotony,”
—James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892)
“Woodlands, meadows,streams and rivers—
Blind to all of it all my life long.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus,
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,”
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“Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
armed robber, with a pike in his hand.”
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