Language Log: Flight
Alexander Burns, "Obama super PAC to advertise in Ohio", Politico 2/28/2012: The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is poised to start airing ads in Ohio, according to a source monitoring the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Distances among genres and authors
Jon Gertner, "True Innovation", NYT 2/25/2012 At Bell Labs, the man most responsible for the culture of creativity was Mervin Kelly. […] In 1950, he traveled around Europe, delivering a presentation...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The "sports subjunctive": neither sports-related nor subjunctive
The so-called sports subjunctive (discussed some years ago on Language Log as the "baseball conditional") has been in the news, and was discussed in this post by Mark Liberman. I'm quite sure Mark is...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The baseball conditional in the Zombie Mohammed case
Last Wednesday, the judge in the "Zombie Mohammed" case dismissed a charge of harassment against Talaag Elbayomy for attacking Ernest Perce V during a Halloween parade in Mechanicsburg PA. Mr. Pence,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Three scenes in the life of "meh"
When I first posted here in 2006 about the indifferent interjection meh ("Meh-ness to society") I never imagined that this unobtrusive monosyllable would provide such rich linguistic fodder for years...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "No less X"
Joe Nocera, "A Revolutionary Idea", NYT 2/24/2012: Puritans fled to America in the 1600s because they were being persecuted in England for their hard-edged, Calvinist beliefs, and their rejection of...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Facts and fables
In this week's NYT book review section, Jennifer B. McDonald offer a fascinating and well-crafted review of what sounds like an interesting book ("In the Details: ‘The Lifespan of a Fact,’ by John...
View ArticleLanguage Log: I think he means it
Last week, I discussed Senator Rick Santorum's plan to prevent government interference in education by imposing a federal requirement for accreditation of ideological balance in teaching ("A new...
View ArticleLanguage Log: DARE
Time to celebrate the appearance of the last volume (5) of the Dictionary of American Regional English! Brief account on my blog, here; more extensive account on DARE's site, here.
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