{"id":684360,"date":"2010-03-06T01:07:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2010-03-06T01:07:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:07:16","slug":"language-log-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/684360","title":{"rendered":"Language Log to the rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McIntyre has once again wandered off into that parodic fantasy land where usage writers and linguists disport themselves as characters in hard-boiled detective fiction. This time, on the occasion of National Grammar Day, it&#8217;s &#8220;Pulp Diction&#8221;; the complete serial is <a href=\"http:\/\/johnemcintyre.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/pulp-diction-complete-serial_5990.html\">here<\/a>. The climax of the tale comes in installment 4 (&#8220;The dark tower&#8221;), when Language Log saves the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With the thunder of many boots, a battering ram burst open the door. In strode Mark Liberman of Penn at the head of Language Log\u2019s Modal Auxiliary Corps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The four installments were posted separately, and you can add comments on McIntyre&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McIntyre has once again wandered off into that parodic fantasy land where usage writers and linguists disport themselves as characters in hard-boiled detective fiction. This time, on the occasion of National Grammar Day, it&#8217;s &#8220;Pulp Diction&#8221;; the complete serial is here. The climax of the tale comes in installment 4 (&#8220;The dark tower&#8221;), when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-684360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2S24","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684360","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\/2634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}