Very special cause Im makin it from my new iPhone. The coolness factor still hasn’t worn off. Favorite thing so far is using the autolocate to put a bullseye on my location in google maps. Hee. Also cool is 寫漢字。
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In Omaha on break now; returning to NYC January 2.
Getting over a tiny cold. Just finished a paper on the syntax of inverse linking. It’s mostly an empirical critique of Superiority-constrained QR (cf. Bruening 2001)—specifically the implementation it receives for inverse linking in (Sauerland 2000, 2005). I’ll wait to get some feedback on that and then post it here.
Also, I put together and submitted an abstract for SALT 19 (at Ohio State this year). It’s based on my paper “Strong `Predicative Presuppositions,’” is quite different from last year’s abstract/talk/paper, and can be found here.
Happy holidays.
Update: possibly related.
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Kirby has lots of moves
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Developed in consultation with Yo-Shang.
Merry Christmas Eve. Present below the fold.
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This is likely as famous as I’ll ever be.
Also, as a non-credentialed semanticist, I’d like to offer that “dull” isn’t meant as a slight here. The dullness is kind of an important part of the piece!
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1. Googling “Chris Wallace” can be a jarring experience:
2. Biggie was from Bed Stuy. His Wikipedia article contains the following (hilarious) nugget—link added:
Biggie transferred out of the private Roman Catholic school that he attended, at his request, to attend the state-funded George Westinghouse Information Technology High School, where Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, DMX, and Gene Shalit were also students.
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Instead of Rick Warren, how about letting Jeremiah Wright do the invocation?
Happy holidays.
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Dear Australian googler who found this blog by searching for “how to be the coolest at a formal,”
I’m sorry. I hope you have some success with this.
Sincerely,
Simon
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I hereby make the should-be-but-apparently-isn’t-obvious point that any reasonable construal of Barack Obama’s communicative intent in the following:
“I had no contact with the governor or his office and so I was not aware of what was happening,” Obama told reporters today in Chicago. “It’s a sad day for Illinois. Beyond that, I don’t think it’s appropriate to comment.”
…would not lead one to conclude the content of the headline which appears above that quote on Bloomberg:
Obama Says He Had No Contact With Blagojevich on Senate Seat
Drudge is, of course, blaring the headline. Jake Tapper has cynically dug up some quote contradicting something Obama never said. Hot Air laps it up. Others among us find further disheartening evidence that some people live in a different world than you and I, and the door is fastened very, very tightly.
Edit: I originally wrote and posted this. Then I realized I was (a) being petulant and (b) giving Obama too much credit. He’s either dissembling or being deliberately obfuscatory. As Dickerson says, the quote is “vague as to be nearly meaningless.” This isn’t an excuse for imputing specificity that wasn’t there. But this type of behavior—especially the “ongoing investigation” dodge—is disgusting and does not merit my defense. So I took the post down. As Ambinder says, “it is striking to hear [Obama] refuse to make any comments due to an ongoing investigation.” It’s Scott McClellan during Plame. And it’s, frankly, outrageous.
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