{"id":73,"date":"2008-04-27T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T04:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/working-on-a-weekend-with-wine\/"},"modified":"2008-04-27T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T04:19:01","slug":"working-on-a-weekend-with-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/working-on-a-weekend-with-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on a weekend: with wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think wine should always accompany weekend work. Loosens up the synapses, and makes one care less that one is not relaxing, because one is relaxed, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this interesting linguistic slipup:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pullum, however, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really take Gelernter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s argument seriously, presumably because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absurd and ignorant and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deserve to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigamonkeys.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/singular-they.html\">this entry<\/a>, from Peter Seibel, were excerpted on Language Log itself, but they missed this fun little  failure of parallelism, probably resulting from editing failure<\/p>\n<p>Pullum doesn&#8217;t [take <strong>Gelernter&#8217;s argument<\/strong> seriously] because <strong>it<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t deserve to be [take <strong>_<\/strong> seriously].<\/p>\n<p>This works surprisingly well for a sentence whose elided portion is not identical to any earlier constituent. It reminds me of the LL series on cases where <a href=\"http:\/\/158.130.17.5\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/000027.html\">a pronoun is introduced that matches an earlier possessive phrase<\/a>. We sort of fill in the necessary information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think wine should always accompany weekend work. Loosens up the synapses, and makes one care less that one is not relaxing, because one is relaxed, anyway. I enjoyed this interesting linguistic slipup: &#8220;Pullum, however, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really take Gelernter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s argument seriously, presumably because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absurd and ignorant and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deserve to be.&#8221; Parts of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}