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2008-04-18T00:32:56Z

I'm thinking about looking at these posts: Taxes! - adjacent pairs Movie Reviews - performative verbs Tautologies galore! - Place name tautologies Trees - sense relations across languages

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Group project!

2008-04-11T02:21:42Z

Just wondering about when everyone could get together so that we could work on our group project. I suppose it's about time that we get to working on it!

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Pushing Daisies

2008-04-11T02:20:55Z

Without question, one of the cutest shows on TV these days. Also a very good example of many of the things we talk about in class: There is a narrator that often comes in and explains the words of the characters, such as here: Chuch: what's wron...

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Taxes!!!!

2008-04-11T02:17:31Z

I saw a commercial the other day about taxes and it really fit with what we've been talking about with adjacent pairs this week! A guy walks up to a girl and asks: do you know what time it is? she replies (yelling): yes, of course I know what tim...

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Movie reviews

2008-04-04T00:55:45Z

While watching a bit of tv, I saw a few previews for some movies. I quickly noticed that these frequently use performative verbs: Rolling Stones declares this the best movie of the year 'someone else' raves that... I was just astounded at how th...

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Weddings/Churches

2008-04-04T00:49:28Z

When Dr. Myers was talking about the wedding she attended last week, she mentioned that a lot of people try to change their vows to make them their own and such. This got me thinking about church services and how, with many denominations, the sa...

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They seem nice at first, but...

2008-03-28T01:38:27Z

I recently received an email from a current grad student in the program to which I'll be attending in the fall. She congratulated me and such, then ended the email by offering advice or help with anything I needed, as well as to tell me what the...

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Afternoon. After noon? Hardly!

2008-03-28T01:29:15Z

While planning a trip to Indianapolis to visit a friend next weekend, he sent an email saying that I should arrive late afternoon, about 1:00. I am rather curious as to when 1:00 became late afternoon? Just as The weekend has taken up Friday f...

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Pragmatics and the Beetles!

2008-03-21T12:36:14Z

I noticed that the Beetles song I am the Walrus begins with a really good example of personal deixis gone awry! - I am he is you are he is you are me and we are all together. If one were to try and follow this train of thought through to an actua...

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Not she, I? no, he? What?

2008-03-21T01:55:36Z

So, I was watching an episode of Arrested Development today, and this dialogue came up that I couldn't pass by for a blog post. The situation: the mother is seducing the warden of the prison, and the son with whom she is talking can't accept the ...

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