Losing my cool over xkcd made me wonder - has anyone done any serious work into “I could care less” ? Because I’ve been thinking about it and it’s potentially fascinating ( Read more... )

Finally finished it up. This was extremely well-written in parts. Other parts had Mentors in them. (It's visceral. And the green goop makes it even worse ( Read more... )

... I was just recognized by a former student of whom I had absolutely no recollection. Saaad day.

In other news, why is the castle apparently shipping Tarvek now? Ah, you gotta love pragmatics/context dependency in action.

From today's Lexical Semantics paper ( Read more... )

One thing that is talked about in semantics is that noun phrases, in addition to verb phrases, must (or can) be interpreted with respect to some (contextually given) time. One case in which this is relevant are "verbs of creation" - you're talking about something that does not exist until you've finished doing what you're doing. So if, for ( Read more... )

I was thinking about the definite article this morning...

yes yes, that is a bad way to start anything, nevertheless -

I was thinking about the definite article this morning, particularly in the contect "The Ohio State University." Now, the is supposed to presuppose a unique salient whatever. But in this sort of context, it seems to be ( Read more... )