By: Xmun
My wife pronounces "extraordinary" as extra-ordinary. I say "extr'ordinary". We've managed to stay together for forty-odd years despite this and several other differences in our speech habits. She's...
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@GeorgeW - Admittedly I'm no expert on the matter, but it seems that they're measuring whether compatible pairs use similar types of function words, rather than overall quantity (can anybody who...
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John Lawler said, June 7, 2011 @ 3:16 pm @m.m: Yes — that seems to be a good way to describe it — provided you want the relationship to last. If you're looking to end it, do the opposite. Funny; I'm...
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I don't know if the particular lexical categories they use have a bearing on their argument, but they're an odd mix of traditional and modern. The CGEL would disagree with: -all their impersonal...
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This work is so cool! I think I'm gonna get distracted from my current project for a day or two…
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@Brett R: I think you're onto something. If the data had been reanalyzed with the CGEL's lexical categories, would the correlation with positive relationship outcomes have been better or worse?...
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@myl: I can't figure out whether my joke was too subtle and you didn't get it, or your reply is too subtle and I don't get it. [(myl) Both…]
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The big question is whether individuals feel more aligned to others who already talk the way they do or whether they adapt their language to match that of individuals they really like. My first...
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I'm sympathetic to Pennebaker (honest, I am…), but I've been asking Twitter linguists to run their feeds through his online tool Analyze Words which uses LWIC to analyze anyone's twitter feed and...
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@myl: And I even screwed it up, with "that". Maybe I should find a new line of non-work.
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What's the hypothesis for why function-words correlate so well with personality-clicking? I'd think that whether or not my conversation partner likes to use "rebarbative" and "chiasmus" in roughly the...
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By: Barbara Phillips Long
What I have learned from editing is that other writers don't choose the same prepositions I would in various situations. Here are some possible variations: Here's some gravy to put over your potatoes....
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[…] Liberman recently wrote at the Language Log about a case of misinterpreted science. Liberman begins by describing a study showing that how […]
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I know you'll want invested lots of time about this post however actually savoring reading through it.
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[...] “that’s mighty white of you” (which surprisingly did not always have to do with race); how language style matching may predict relationship attraction and stability; and the Navy SEALs of...
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