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Language Log " Gift ideas

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By Victor Mair, Heidi Harley, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Barbara Partee
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Archive for Gift ideas Top Tier Taobao Trick or Treat T-shirt October 31, 2025 @ 2:08 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Gift ideas, Slang, Transcription Let's see how many LL readers get this one. Read the rest of this entry » Permalink Scarf 'em up! November 23, 2017 @ 12:08 am· Filed by Heidi Harley under Awesomeness, Gift ideas Is there a linguist in your life? Puzzled for a present that might really shiver their timbers?
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Language Log " negation

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By Victor Mair, Mark Liberman, Barbara Partee, Geoffrey K. Pullum
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Archive for negation Not June 11, 2024 @ 9:09 pm· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and psychology, Misnegation, Negation, negation, Psycholinguistics, Syntax Lately I've been seeing greater use of this kind of sentence structure:  "He is an awesome hero — not". And (mis)negation has always been a favorite topic for discussion on Language Log. Consequently, I'm calling to your attention two recent publications on "not". "'Not' in the Brain and Behavior." Cas W. Coopmans, Anna Mai, Andrea E.
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Language Log " Insults

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By Victor Mair, Barbara Partee, Neal Goldfarb
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New article by Stephen Johnson in Lifehacker (3/24/23): "These Are the Most Savage Ways to Start or End an Email: How you start and end your work email says something about your worth as a person" N.B.:  This is about work email — a very different kettle of fish from personal email, email with friends, and email in general. You work those things out on your own. If the solutions you arrive at are suitable, the relationship will persist. If not, it will wither.
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