Oh wait, never mind.

That’s different.

Snow gloves…whaaat?

That’s different than a change in the *meaning* of the word.

The corpus data they discuss (which they provided a copy of to me) doesn’t support their argument.

All it shows is a shift from references to the British constitution to references to the U.S. constitution and the constitutions of U.S. states.

Altman’s 3 Women, except it wasn’t me who was angry, it was pretty much everyone else in the theater.

Bonding over Merge? Or over Epstein?

You’d know the answer to that question if you had your shit together.

This video needs to be spread far and wide.

Just make sure to go meetings and depositions at big firms that have stacks of them on the table.

Looks like he’s relying on a script, or at least an outline.

…which is of course fully consistent with the fact that he aced the cognitive test.

Very timely subtweet

Wait, I thought tarriffs are paid by the importing country.

And it’s a misleading oversimplification to say that “the corpus linguistics thing” is about textualism.

That’s certainly not true in my case, and I doubt it’s true in Stephen’s case, or in the case of the linguists who’ve been involved in the L&CL, or interested observers.

OTOH, you gotta love the name of that ranch

…basements that didn’t exist

makes it *look like*?

Fuck, yeah

Also, now that I think about it about it with Schmid’s approach in The Dynamics of the Linguistic System.

Interesting. From your description, it sounds like it might resonate with work describing lexical “meanings” in terms of affordances or meaning *potentials*

Ribbit it nice?
Ribbit it queer?

I just saw this DHS video. The soundtrack is someone singing “This Land Is Your Land”

Woody Guthrie is turning over in his grave.

www.instagram.com/reel/DMu80IW...

Don’t ask me if I’ve read either of the books yet.

Kintsch is tha author of “Comprehension: A Paradigm for Communication,” which I also own a copy of.

Buying a used copy of “On Understanding Grammar” by the linguist Talmy Givon, and upon opening it up, finding this:

Ordered.

Thanks for flagging it

I checked it out...amazing.

Are reproductions of his portraits available anywhere?

Good question, but feel free to reskeet.

I think the Philly Joe is my favorite of these.

He was a very photogenic guy:

www.google.com/search?clien...

Wow. I was totally unaware of this guy. This stuff is incredible.

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