exolinguist.bsky.social
Linguist by trade, flâneur by choice, sarcasm appreciator, amateur cookie baker, aspiring traveller, occasional haver of a good idea, friend of desoto slightly embarrassed to know entirely too much about trek 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🖖(he/him)
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I always forget to use those lyrics as an example of relative clause embedding in class
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It’s a perfectly fine ATB with stranded prepositions until it’s not. Heck of a garden path
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Oh don’t get me wrong, it for sure is a good idea and should be done regardless, I’m just snarking about how the parties are covered in general
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But would it get equivalent breathless media coverage?
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Me too! (One timezone away, making it worse)
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Go to Langer’s deli if you are ever in LA. That apple pie almost made me cry it was so good. I am forever grateful that I was able to taste it, as I was knocked flat with covid a week later
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v) John gave Mary a baby
vi) John gave a baby to Mary
The first implies a pregnancy, while the second is more “here hold this”. There are lots of ditransitive idioms that can be played with here.
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person or corporate head office for the sentence to make sense, while (iv) just means my package got to the city of brotherly love (nudge, nudge). The observation with respect to “teach” is credited to Richard Oherle, who also offers this fun pairing:
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arises from an underlying possession verb in (i) CAUSE-TO-HAVE while the sentence in (ii) is a simpler underlying CAUSE-TO-GO. This is usually demonstrated using send:
iii) I sent Philadelphia a package
iv) I sent a package to Philadelphia
Note that in (iii) you typically have to imagine a
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*puts on syntax prof hat*
With the verb “teach”, the use of the double object construction in i) implies learning while the to-dative construction in ii) does not:
i) I taught my coworkers self-regulation
ii) I taught self-regulation to my co-workers
Harley (2002) proposes that this contrast
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I just had a meeting to agree on how to do a document review 🙂
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Thanks for saying it. The N is not much better
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I still kick myself for not having put together until very recently that the broken statue in the first scene there obliquely foreshadows the name of the pirate
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Ended up with lots of people failing attention checks because we inadvertently trained them to think anything was good-ish
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Part of the talk I’m giving tomorrow is basically that a 2x2x2x2 contextual felicity task was untenable, so we made one of those between participants, but unexpected created a cohort of people with clear categorical results, and another where everything unexpectedly ended up very confusing for folks
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I always saw a terrifying face in the negative space. It was years before I actually saw a B
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The next time anyone goes on CBC and says that Alberta pays equalization, the host just needs to stop them in their tracks and insist upon agreement that the Province of Alberta, as institution, pays nothing. Then talk about median income in Alberta being 19% higher than the national average. (2023)
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YES! Someone needs to do the most basic accountability interview with these people confronting them with facts on things like how equalization and federal transfers actually work. How much of this “alienation” is ginned up by leaders who bend the truth on basic civics?
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“Dinnae light that candle” may have been in my lecture on variations in English negation forms, along with Sweet Brown
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This almost makes me want to open Facebook to see if I get it too, considering he actually only has one degree of separation from me
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I’ve heard of folks in Calgary who don’t even do this because they need the space, but will license an extra car just to make sure nobody else parks in front of their house. Such people probably also want to ram a pipeline through an unwilling province, but I digress
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You are not alone there
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The classrooms don’t need to be built, but the facility fees (at least at my institution) are beyond unreasonable. Our student club was out of pocket a couple hundred bucks just because they wanted to turn on a projector for their mini-conference in one classroom on a Saturday. Multiply that…
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At least the fully-grown adults I’ve seen do this at the Stampede have the sense to use a sunscreen tube
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It’s not just airtime, it’s free airtime devoid of any pushback. Even the CBC will let people spout misinformation about basic civics and just…hope listeners know and recognize that? It’s not dishonest or biased reporting to say “this person is wrong on basic facts” as long as it’s done equally
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Especially so much uncritical airtime. Ask them to explain how they think equalization works. Hold them to account: if you demand to be taken seriously, show us your coherent plan for filling in the gap from federal transfers. How will air traffic control work? Border guards? Weather alerts? Mail?
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Except it’s not even both sides. I don’t hear nearly as much media coverage or fluffy interviews with the opposition to this idea
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Awwwww shucks
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Just once, can someone who interviews these people actually challenge them on their understanding of how things like equalization or Westminster parliaments actually work? My hunch is that at least some of their outrage originates in their being lied to about basic civics by those you mention
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The answer depends on whether my name is Simon
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When I was first hired, I was told especially not to be political in a class, because you never know if a donor’s kid is in the room
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Shhhhh, we dare not ask any of these people any questions about logistics. I was pleasantly surprised when the question of Treaties was raised on the CBC this morning, but the media needs to do a better job asking questions about passports, currency, post office, food safety, healthcare, and taxes
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This was my most recent “wow I’m getting old” conversation: No no no, I didn’t see it on YouTube, I remember being floored by Yakko’s World the first time I saw it on TV after school, when it was brand new
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Honestly, I would love to see Charlie Angus also parachute in and fight this one. Play the blue ↔️ orange angle
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Exactly. I like Markusoff, but I’ve yet to see equivalent effort anywhere to talk to the majority of people who disagree with this. The closest we get to a counterpoint is usually very thoughtful academic analysis of why this sentiment is there, and how it plays out. Never public disagreement though
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Is the media even both sidesing it? I don’t see a lot of “These people disagree and here’s why” media attention
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⬆️ this ⬆️