Language Log: True Grit isn't true
It isn't linguistically true, at least. David Fried writes: What’s with the movie convention of representing 19th century American speech as lacking contractions? I was just enjoying the new version...
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Comment spam isn't getting any better, but it's certainly getting more frequent. Akismet is now catching more than a thousand LL spam comments (or what it identifies as spam comments) every day. Some...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Norwood
In discussing the relatively low rate of contraction in Charles Portis's novel True Grit, I suggested several different explanations. It might be false archaism, or it might be a way to bring out the...
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