Thursday, September 30, 2010

bastardizing a snowclone!

Andrew Sullivan used this as the title of a post recently: Palinites, Latinos, Tea Partiers, Women, Oh My!

I love the X, and Y, and Z, oh my! snowclone as much as the next guy, but the construction has to be respected. You can't just add a fourth member of the list all willy nilly! There are rules!!

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TV Linguistics - Pronouncify.com and the fictional Princeton Linguistics department

 [reposted from 11/20/10] I spent Thursday night on a plane so I missed 30 Rock and the most linguistics oriented sit-com episode since ...