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Human Rights FLoP
Our old friend, the Friends in Low Places coordination, has popped up again. Arnold Zwicky discusses an example that he found in a headline on cnn.com: Brinkley spouse slept with, gave teen $300K Since...
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Extreme Gapping
“I can’t believe you put up with me,” my wife said. “Nor I you me,” I replied. She burst into laughter. After all, it’s pretty funny to imagine that she might have trouble putting up with me. Gapping...
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Picker Uppers and Putter Upper Withers
Back in January, Ben Zimmer wrote an “On Language” column for the New York Times magazine on the subject of crash blossoms. Near the beginning, he said: In their quest for concision, writers of...
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There Was Supposed to Be a Gap!
In the newspaper yesterday, I read about the latest reboot of the Wonder Woman comic book, in an article by George Gene Gustines of the New York Times News Service. In sketching out the previous...
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Little Women: Gapping and Wrapping
Two posts ago, I wrote about a right-node wrapping that I found in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. It was this: At the door her sisters seized and bore her to the parlor in a triumphal procession. An...
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Coordination Meets Quotative Inversion
Last summer, I added to my list of Friends in Low Places coordinations a couple that I got from a posting on Blogslot, written by Bill Walsh, a copyeditor for The Washington Post. Walsh read my post...
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