Language Log: Commas (and parsing) are important
[h/t to Omri Ceren] Update — It's a fake, and an old one. I should have checked. But the point stands… More of the same: "'My parents, Ayn Rand and God'", 3/16/2006 "Merle Haggard's ex-wives",...
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Class discussion of the Facebook pronoun data brought out some interesting points. We started by looking at the relationship between first-person singular pronouns ("I", "me", "my", "mine") and...
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