ALSO Sarah Palin. Language Log writes:
One of the things that marks Sarah Palin as a linguistic outsider is her use of also. In part, this is just a matter of frequency…. Relative to the rates seen in large and representative corpora, Gov. Palin used also about 5 to 10 times more often than expected…
But the most striking thing about Gov. Palin’s affinity for this word is how she used it, not how often. 13 out of her 48 examples (27%) were sentence-final…
Also:
And 18 of Gov. Palin’s other alsos (37.5%) were, we might say, peripheral — initial, or between clauses, or among a pile of adverbs at the start or end of a clause, e.g….
That’s 65% of her alsos on the edges of clauses….
[I]t’s not at all clear to me whether this is an individual quirk, or a matter of regional or cultural variation. And if it’s more than an individual quirk, is it an innovation or a survival?
Sarah Palin will do what is also right for, like, Sarah Palin…
Sarah Palin Talks About Herself In The Third Person
Hillary Clinton Like Totally Wipes Out Osama, Osama And Iran
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October 6th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
“Alaskan Rottweiler” would have done a lot better….
October 5th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Be serious, Saul; Sarah Palin speaks, the world markets tremble, and the citizenry of the US rise to the occasion.
‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’ made $29 million in its opening week…
Oh, and the nightmare wasn’t too dreadful; I went back to sleep, once I’d reassured myself that the crate of Bushmills was still there…
October 5th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Not only, but also.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
chenier, that, indeed would be a nightmare.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Sound plan!
In these troubled times we have to economise, and drinking booze in case it goes off is an excellent contribution to surviving the credit crunch.
I had a nightmare last night about them introducing rationing on essential items…
October 5th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I’m quaffing back some Cabernet Sauvignon, it might go bad…
October 5th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
june, thanks, i’ve got some stella here, that’ll do quite nicely methinks.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I’ve put up an item on Leibniz v Madhava in the forums, I felt this was necessary to enhance the educational theme of this topic. In addition we need a balance of topics.
For the academic under-achievers there is a bottle of Teachers hidden on site….