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High Attachment in the political news
Down in an NYT story yesterday, “Political Divide About C.I.A. Torture Remains After Senate Report’s Release” by Scott Shane, with the crucial bit boldfaced: one notable exception to the...
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Subjectless purpose adjunct
From a public service announcement on television about the closing of the Golden Gate Bridge this weekend: (1) The bridge is closing to install a moveable median barrier I wasn’t entirely comfortable...
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High Attachment in the NYT
In an NYT opinion column on Sunday (the 5th), a Jenny Wilkinson piece about her sexual assault at U.Va., including this: The weak punishment meted out to the student whom the university found...
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Briefly: HA in the commercials
From a long-running ad campaign: Eliminate odors you’ve gone noseblind to for over 30 days with Febreze. The intended parsing is High Attachment (HA) — eliminate for 30 days (with Febreze) odors you’ve...
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Rhett to Scarlett
Heard in passing on KFJC’s Norman Bates show Saturday morning, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) in the 1939 movie of Gone With the Wind, what I heard as: No, I don’t think I...
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Fun with EDM
Over the past three months, contributors to ADS-L have been looking at a series of English examples involving of in English modifier constructions, in what I’ve called EDM (Exceptional Degree...
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A zombie lurches in the NYT
From the New York Times, “Is a Dumber Phone a Better Phone?” by John Herrman, on-line on May 16th, in print today under the title “A new crop of smartphones has arrived, aiming to improve on the iPhone...
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Beheaded spots
In yesterday’s posting “The lost years for LGBT seniors”, about a Talk of the Town piece from the New Yorker, my attention was drawn to spot illustrations as a form of the cartoonist’s art and also to...
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