Last night I was listening to the radio, and a song came on that I liked, that reminded me of the good old days of early high school (which meant the industrial music my boyfriends listened to), and that I thought was Marilyn Manson*. So I Googled it, and in the second line he uses an infinitive where he should have used a gerund, and I was like, "forget it."
*Funny - This book I'm reading** just talked about metonymy used as a perjorative, and hypernymy as an exaltation ("Aren't I a woman?" etc).
**The other day I was looking online for reiki practitioners, and found myself preferring one over another because one had hyperlinked a slightly long phrase and the other had just hyperlinked the significant word. The hyperlinked phrase made me instinctually find her more supportive.
This could be, though, that hyperlinking a phrase instead of a word suggests a lack of media sophistication that I subconsciously associate with touchy-feely-healiness***.
***Though I use it above so I could mention the reiki thing. I don't find myself particularly touchy-feely-healy (which my friend K calls "Kumbaya" - see asterisk 1 (or not)).
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i don't know why i typed andjoyable there but that seems like a good word for something that was primarily something else but also enjoyable, no?
Can I say that I hate steven pinker? I guess I just did. I know you're digging this guy and he's famous and all that, but when it comes to language, I think he's a deterministic evolutionary-minded douchebag who doesn't know jack about the nature of human consciousness--or unconsciousness--for that matter. I hate him and all his chomsky-ite crap. love, A.
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