{"id":24717,"date":"2016-03-16T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=24717"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:12:54","slug":"it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=24717","title":{"rendered":"It begins."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Pullum to me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What the hell is going on with all the years except 1920 being labeled \"11 PM\"? [<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/graph?content=American+as+cherry+pie,American+as+apple+pie&amp;year_start=1920&amp;year_end=2008&amp;corpus=15&amp;smoothing=3&amp;share=&amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2CAmerican%20as%20cherry%20pie%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CAmerican%20as%20apple%20pie%3B%2Cc0t1;,American%20as%20cherry%20pie;,c0;.t1;,American%20as%20apple%20pie;,c0\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Me to Geoff Pullum:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You mean on the x axis? I'm not seeing it &#8212; must be a special feature for Scottish readers.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Pullum to me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yep. \u00a0 1920 \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM on the x axis. Corresponds to decades. It's not Scots dialect: 1930 is known here as \"1930\".<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Me to Geoff Pullum:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Screenshot?<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Pullum to me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/GoogleNgramBug.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/GoogleNgramBug.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me to Geoff Pullum:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The same link gets me this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/GoogleNgramBug1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/GoogleNgramBug1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Something special about you or your environment, apparently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Pullum to me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is what we call BLAMING THE VICTIM.<\/p>\n<p>Today's xkcd:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/it_begins.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So this also works with random inexplicable software glitches, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Pullum to me: What the hell is going on with all the years except 1920 being labeled \"11 PM\"? [link] Me to Geoff Pullum: You mean on the x axis? I'm not seeing it &#8212; must be a special feature for Scottish readers. Geoff Pullum to me: Yep. \u00a0 1920 \u00a011 PM \u00a011 PM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-literature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24719,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717\/revisions\/24719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}