Still another inventory of postings on Language Log and this blog, this time of discussions of conflicts between faithfulness (Faith) and well-formedness (WF), updating the inventory in “Article-article article abstract” and adding very brief annotations.
This inventory doesn’t include some types of cases that have been discussed in these blogs, but without an actual reference to faithfulness, among them: use vs. avoidance of taboo vocabulary in quotation (except in “A few dollops of taboo avoidance”, below); preservation vs. adaptation in borrowing (except in “If you’re uneducated you say it right”, below); “semantic” vs. “grammatical” determination in agreement; assignment of nouns to Count or Mass (on the basis of semantics vs. conventions).
AZ, 1/29/06: Dubious quotation marks:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002796.html
punctuation and spelling
AZ, 4/9/07: Ducky identity:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004388.html
spelling
AZ, 8/1/07: Cousin of eggcorn:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004777.html
(mis)quotation
AZ, 8/12/07: e e cummings and his iPod: Faith vs. WF again:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004821.html
spelling (esp. capitalization)
AZ, 9/21/07: Punctuational hypercorrection:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004938.html
punctuation
AZ, 3/23/08: Article-article article abstract:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005486.html
articles in proper names
AZ, 8/17/08: A few dollops of taboo avoidance:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=483
taboo avoidance
AZ, 10/30/08: Periods:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=779
periods in abbreviations
GP, 2/2/09: If you’re uneducated you say it right:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1095
borrowing
spelling
June 28, 2009 at 2:56 pm |
“Ducky identity” has got to be the most intellectual thing ever written about rubber ducks that look like dogs. I quite like it.
July 7, 2009 at 6:02 pm |
Missed one:
http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/sallys/
spelling
August 30, 2010 at 10:25 am |
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