{"id":396675,"date":"2010-03-06T01:07:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2010-03-06T01:07:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:07:16","slug":"language-log-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/396675","title":{"rendered":"Language Log to the rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McIntyre has once again wandered off into that parodic fantasy land where usage writers and linguists disport themselves as characters in hard-boiled detective fiction. This time, on the occasion of National Grammar Day, it&#8217;s &#8220;Pulp Diction&#8221;; the complete serial is <a href=\"http:\/\/johnemcintyre.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/pulp-diction-complete-serial_5990.html\">here<\/a>. The climax of the tale comes in installment 4 (&#8220;The dark tower&#8221;), when Language Log saves the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With the thunder of many boots, a battering ram burst open the door. In strode Mark Liberman of Penn at the head of Language Log\u2019s Modal Auxiliary Corps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The four installments were posted separately, and you can add comments on McIntyre&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McIntyre has once again wandered off into that parodic fantasy land where usage writers and linguists disport themselves as characters in hard-boiled detective fiction. This time, on the occasion of National Grammar Day, it&#8217;s &#8220;Pulp Diction&#8221;; the complete serial is here. The climax of the tale comes in installment 4 (&#8220;The dark tower&#8221;), when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}