{"id":639863,"date":"2010-01-20T03:57:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2010-01-20T03:57:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:57:05","slug":"dilbert-fails-to-apologise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639863","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert fails to apologise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dilbert fails to grasp the distinction between brevity (a syntactic property of a locutionary act) and brusqueness (a pragmatic property relating to a perlocutionary effect), and fails to draw the distinction between <em>sorry<\/em> with clause complement and the same word employed in a speech act of <strong>apology<\/strong> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/000327.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/000858.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003320.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/005386.html\">here<\/a> and other places); and more office discord results&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~pullum\/dilbertapology.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~pullum\/dilbertapology.gif?w=475\"  title=\"Click to embiggen\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilbert fails to grasp the distinction between brevity (a syntactic property of a locutionary act) and brusqueness (a pragmatic property relating to a perlocutionary effect), and fails to draw the distinction between sorry with clause complement and the same word employed in a speech act of apology (see here and here and here and here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Gsn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}