{"id":630,"date":"2013-11-21T21:35:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T05:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2013-11-21T21:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T05:52:44","slug":"because-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/21\/because-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Because cheese."},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my Because Reasons <\/a>post, I’ve been collecting examples. I’m sure a search would turn up more, but I’m enjoying collecting them in their native habitats.<\/p>\n

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“well, okay, maybe not the dairy free part, because cheese”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This was a sentence fragment from an online messageboard.<\/p>\n

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“I had catastrophic coverage, but no maternity coverage (private insurance because self-employed)…”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also a sentence from an online messageboard. This sentence is ambiguous syntactically; it could actually be from an older pattern which is referred to in the Language Log post, a kind of “x because y” pattern.<\/p>\n

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Because, honestly, FUCK the whole idea of cooking an expensive and time-consuming holiday meal for people who cancel at the last minute because: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153paperwork.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

But that’s okay, because – bourbon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These were also sourced from the same messageboard, and are interesting because internal punctuation.* Internal punctuation is also found in a lot of the Languange Log examples. It suggests that the writer knows that something is being elided, at least semantically and perhaps syntactically.<\/p>\n

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“If you want to go to the next step in the route manually, you now swipe from left to right instead of tapping on the arrow. Because gestures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is from an article about Google Maps<\/a> published in July 2013.<\/p>\n

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No, go away. I just want a salad because ranch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eating: A manifesto<\/a>, from Rookie Magazine, July 2012<\/p>\n

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The most important thing about questpunk is to get plenty of sleep, because dreams.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A tweet<\/a> from October 2013.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why is it spelled that way?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Because English.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This one was a verbal exchange between a coworker paraphrasing her six-year-old, and me.<\/p>\n

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“Why there is a baby rat in my closet?”
\n“Because cats.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Quoted dialogue from a Facebook post written by a friend of mine, November 2013.<\/p>\n

Hope to see everybody at @busproject<\/a>‘s “Jingle Bus” this year! Because DEMOCRACY.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also a tweet<\/a>, from November 2013.<\/p>\n

*Originally I wrote this in Standard English as “because of the internal punctuation”, but I couldn’t resist the temptation to change it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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