It was a circular syntactical reference to the verb "archaeology" which I 
imagine it to be sometimes rather than an oject.

It was in reference to an offline post that it was written too.

George Myers

(If I had to do it again I'd take more psycholinguist courses, "A person 
(usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the 
psychological basis of human language". I grow tired of CUNY linguists...

On 9/16/05, Pat Reynolds <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, HISTARCH
> automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >I do think when archaeologists are doing that they should be into
> >walls.
> Unfortunately, I seem to have missed the first post, so don't know what
> 'doing that' refers to.
> 
> Writing on walls of all kinds is a topic dear to my heart. I'm
> particularly interested in the idea that the illicit and illegal nature
> of 'graffiti' is a modern construct.
> 
> There is a panel coming up at TAG 2005 (Sheffield, UK) on this, and a
> few of us are talking about a longer term research project on the topic,
> perhaps getting together to talk about it in the spring.
> 
> Best wishes to all,
> 
> Pat
> 
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> Pat Reynolds
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> "It might look a bit messy now,
> but just you come back in 500 years time"
> (T. Pratchett)
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