{"id":56879,"date":"2022-11-02T04:26:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=56879"},"modified":"2022-11-02T04:26:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:26:44","slug":"yally-teep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=56879","title":{"rendered":"Yally-teep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on \"Words: Too many? Too few?<\/a>\", T-Rex is discussing lexical issues again<\/a>:
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Mousover title: \"as the French say – or will soon say if they know what's good for them – c'est TRES yally-teep.\"
\n<\/p>\n

Seems like the French would spell it more like yalitype<\/em> or something. And the adjectival form would be something like yalitypable<\/em>, right? Or maybe they borrowed it from English, where it doesn't exist except in this comic?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, T-Rex has been gnawing on the lexicon pretty regularly — the previous comic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Mouseover title: \"please, speak plainly. tell me thou hadst pooped in a special room with a special bowl that was half-filled with what was, up until that moment, perfectly potable water\"<\/p>\n

See also \"The miserable French language and its inadequacies<\/a>\", 9\/30\/2005, for other ideas about gifts for la Francophonie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following up on \"Words: Too many? Too few?\", T-Rex is discussing lexical issues again: Mousover title: \"as the French say – or will soon say if they know what's good for them – c'est TRES yally-teep.\"<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics-in-the-funny-papers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56879","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=56879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56882,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56879\/revisions\/56882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}