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In libreoffice, I replaced an auto correct entry to always replace a regular dash with the M Dash –. But now I’m being told that one should be used for very rare situations when it comes to dialogue. Any grammar experts know which one I should keep and which one I should get rid of? #Grammar

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#TIL a new-to-me word:

VILIPEND.

Isn't it delightful?!

It means "to express scornfully one's low opinion of" someone or something.

Example sentence:

I experience a likely unhealthy amount of Schadenfreude anytime I read an article or hear a report vilipending the fascist regime of vile misogynist and racist Donald Trump and his sycophantic ilk.

And there's your #WordOfTheDay, y'all. Happy learning!

#vocabulary
#grammar
#linguistics
#language

FEWER.

Had a mad crush on Marilyn McCoo in the old days. This was the beginning of the end of my inflexible attitude toward grammar.

If Bert Bacharach and Hal David favored "one less bell" who am I to object?

'The title was born from working on 'What's New Pussycat', and Angie Dickinson was living with me in London. A doorbell rang, and I think she made the comment, 'One less bell to answer, when I get out of here.' It was pretty intense, and it bothered her. We weren't married yet but we were living together. I think Hal heard her say, 'One less bell to answer'. He thought, that's a good song title and we wrote it."'
—Bert Bacharach via Wikipedia

5th Dimension - ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER
youtube.com/watch?v=jft060Dznu

I've come to the conclusion that the best thing I can do by way of learning languages other than English - is to learn English grammar. Because, once I got through things like Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Tenses, and Questions, they stopped teaching me grammar.

And language apps keep trying to shove declensions at me, and telling me how to say "nominative" in Latin. Um. What the hell is a nominative? (No, don't tell me - I looked it up. I can't remember what it is, but I did look it up.)

I compared notes with my family, and my Mother is the only one who could say that she'd been taught about things like that. And that was because she had to learn Latin.

So I've uninstalled the Latin language app, and installed a bug-ridden job from the British Council about English grammar, that started with the verb "to be."

I will return to Latin - but not until I've mastered a more advanced version of English grammar.

#languages
#Latin
#English
#grammar

At this years conference, I will talk about and what it shows us for the old phrasal vs. lexical discussion:

lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009130

I think valence information has to be encoded lexically and lexical rules or empty heads or transformations should be used to derive resultative constructions or caused motion constructions. They can not be related to other constructions in inheritance networks.

Comments welcome!

lingbuzz.netTAG is not a Construction Grammar, it is a Transformational Grammar, or is it? — A comment on the nature of grammatical relations - lingbuzz/009130This paper discusses recent claims about Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) being suited as the formalization for phrasal Construction Grammar approaches. It is shown that inheritance as such is not a suffi - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
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Conversation has structure and languages reflect these structures. acknowledges the importance of spoken language, but the many attempts at fulfilling the implications of thait are with mixed succes. Analysis offers many detailed analyses of specific conversational practices and their structures as related to interaction. In this book, we collect a number of such descriptions while working towards an account of the as a whole

benjamins.com/catalog/slsi.37.