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#lolaklkk indeed
In case you missed it — yesterday's tweet from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary: ⚓️⚓️ :/9//&⛩ #lolaklkk⛲️ — Sarah H. Sanders (@SHSanders45) June 10, 2017
Coercive hopes
Andrew Strom, "Workers Understand a Boss's 'Hopes'", On Labor 6/9/2017: According to the sworn testimony of former FBI Director James Comey, President Trump pulled him into a private meeting in the oval office and said, about the FBI’s ongoing investigation of former national security advisor Michael Flynn, “I hope you can let this go.” One […]
It had been very careless in their behavior
Daniel Victor, "What Was Behind Those Befuddling McCain Questions?", NYT 6/8/2017: Senator John McCain became an unexpected focus of befuddlement and concern on Thursday after a line of questioning that appeared to conflate two separate F.B.I. investigations during James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Here's the start of Senator McCain's questions: Your browser […]
On the short periods of Trumpian time
On Friday, at a joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Donald Trump begrudgingly took questions from Jon Karl of ABC News. Karl asked whether there are indeed recordings of Trump's conversations with former FBI director James Comey, as Trump once suggested on Twitter. Here is how he replied (emphasis mine): KARL: And you […]
Cantonese is not dead yet
Not by a long shot, judging from several recent articles in the South China Morning Post: "American professor speaks up for Cantonese to preserve Hong Kong’s heritage: Robert Bauer from HKU is writing a Cantonese-English dictionary that will include colloquial terms, believing language represents cultures" (Heyling Chan, 5/21/17) "Hong Kong vloggers keeping Cantonese alive with […]
Implicatures on Capitol Hill
Those of us who teach introductory Linguistics courses owe a special debt to James Comey's testimony yesterday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. This two-hour exchange offers us a broad and deep source of evocative and consequential real-world examples of the ways that what is said, what is meant, and what is communicated may be different.
Don't forget to pay pay pay pay pay the rent
Recently, signs like this one showed up in the Shanghai subway:
"This is a whole new life for me now"
Following up on yesterday's post about Rona Barrett's 10/6/1980 interview with Donald Trump, here's a sample from Lesley Stahl's 12/13/2016 interview:
Four candles for Ronnie Corbett
Ronnie Corbett died on March 31, 2016, a year after his diagnosis with Lou Gehrig's disease. A long-planned memorial service for him was held a couple of days ago in Westminster Abbey. That's an honor reserved for only the most important figures in British life. At the front of the church during the service was […]
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"I think it's a very mean life"
Rona Barrett interviews Donald Trump in 1980:
Sorry, my Chinese is not so good
Music video by a trio of English musicians singing about learning Chinese:
"Donald" in Scottish Gaelic
A one-second audio of "Dòmhnall". It's the <mh> that nasalizes the vowel. Supposedly this nasalizing effect is still found in some Irish Gaelic. If you have 4 minutes, a great animation of a folktale in Nova Scotia Gaelic with a main character named "Dòmhnall". Very peculiar sounding!