{"id":67139,"date":"2024-11-29T06:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67139"},"modified":"2024-11-29T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:35:21","slug":"you-scalar-implicature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67139","title":{"rendered":"\"You scalar implicature!\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/calque\" target=\"_blank\">SMBC<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SMBClinguisticInsults.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SMBClinguisticInsults.png\" width=\"490\" title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mouseover title:<\/strong> \"Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT to use.\"<\/p>\n<p>The AfterComic:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/SMBClinguisticInsultsAfter.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I'm always happy to see Linguistics singled out for praise, but in fairness, technical terminology works pretty well from whatever domain:<\/p>\n<p>Exocrine secretion!<br \/>\nWeak anisotropic reflection!<br \/>\nTorridonian alluvium!<br \/>\nConjugacy-closed subgroup!<br \/>\nHomotopical nilpotency!<br \/>\nSimplicial foliation!<br \/>\nHypersoft bijection!<br \/>\nFacticious akataphasia!<\/p>\n<p>And cross-domain combinations can be even better, like \"bijective alluvium\". <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's SMBC:<\/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-67139","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\/67139","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=67139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67144,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67139\/revisions\/67144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}