{"id":45075,"date":"2019-11-22T06:01:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=45075"},"modified":"2019-11-22T06:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:19:02","slug":"1-day-since-big-font-misnegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=45075","title":{"rendered":"1 day since big-font misnegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sign displayed at yesterday's congressional impeachment hearing:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GOP adds new sign during the break <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uI5U9mJTsf\">pic.twitter.com\/uI5U9mJTsf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1197580679975964672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The background is described in this NY Post story: \"<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/13\/republicans-use-giant-signs-to-undermine-impeachment-case\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans use giant signs to counter impeachment case<\/a>\", 11\/13\/2019.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier example:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/ImpeachmentSigns1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/ImpeachmentSigns1.jpeg\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our discussions of <a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1925\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">misnegation<\/a>, we've often observed that scalar concepts (like \"N days since X\") often play a role &#8212; see e.g. \"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=26904\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Indistinguishable misnegation<\/a>\", 7\/23\/2016. But usually there are also negation-words and modals to make the semantic computations more difficult. This is an unusual case where there's nothing going on except the polarity of the scalar concept.<\/p>\n<p>You can see what the count really means in the common work-site signs like this one, which means that there was an injury 297 days ago:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/DaysSinceInjury.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or this parody version, which means that there was an accident yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/DaysSinceAccident.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the featured sign means that Adam Schiff last followed house rules 0 days before the sign was displayed, i.e. on that day itself. The authors' intended meaning requires adding a negation: \"0 days since Adam Schiff didn't follow house rules\", or maybe \"0 days since Adam Schiff violated house rules\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sign displayed at yesterday's congressional impeachment hearing: GOP adds new sign during the break pic.twitter.com\/uI5U9mJTsf &mdash; Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 21, 2019<\/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":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misnegation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075","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=45075"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45084,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45075\/revisions\/45084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}