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getmischI'm a big proponent of "someone who..." rather than saying "someone that..." I know it's grammatically acceptable, I'm saying it's not just a missed opportunity, it's dumbing-down our <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> and making our <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/communications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communications</a> less human. Literally. Calling a <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/person" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#person</a> "that" demotes us to become just as boring as an <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/object" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#object</a> and not worthy of distinction from same. What are your thoughts, <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediverse</a>? <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grammar</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/tense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tense</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/use" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#use</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/personify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#personify</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/personification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#personification</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#human</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/verb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#verb</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/past" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#past</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#style</a>

Kristian (inactive/moved)Disconnect.<a href="https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/embed/pfMft0t_8dA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">invidious.nerdvpn.de/embed/pfM…</a><a href="https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=pfMft0t_8dA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=p…</a><a href="https://loma.ml/search?tag=music%20for%20evenings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music for evenings</a> <a href="https://loma.ml/search?tag=tense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tense</a> <a href="https://loma.ml/search?tag=ebm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ebm</a> <a href="https://loma.ml/search?tag=industrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#industrial</a>

Adara Astin<a href="https://urusai.social/@ami_angelwings" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ami_angelwings</a> The Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem. <a href="https://smutlandia.com/tags/tense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tense</a> <a href="https://smutlandia.com/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://smutlandia.com/tags/MoodMusicMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MoodMusicMonday</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYCaQkbkyw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYCaQkbkyw</a>

Ami AngelwingsIt's Monday so it's time for another <a href="https://urusai.social/tags/MoodMusicMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MoodMusicMonday</a> where I choose a mood and you post a song that you reminds you of that mood/feels like that mood to you!Today's Mood is <a href="https://urusai.social/tags/tense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tense</a> Remember to include the hashtag and the mood so others can see it and join in!<a href="https://urusai.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a>

JROct 11thDuel (1971)A Burt Reynolds doppelgänger is chased by an unseen madman driving a tractor-trailer in the desert.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/tense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tense</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/halloween" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#halloween</a>Link to my 31 days of horror calendar: <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@JRDRD/111160693195312994" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mstdn.ca/@JRDRD/111160693195312994</a>

Sentence firstChildren’s awareness of irregular verbs<a href="http://stancarey.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/steven-pinker-words-and-rules-the-ingredients-of-language-book-cover.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>I’ve been enjoying Steven Pinker’s <a href="http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/wr/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language</a> (1999). More technical and focused than his popular bestseller The Language Instinct, it is effectively a monograph on linguistic irregularity, examining in particular how we inflect verbs for past tense and plurality, and what the exceptions can tell us about the structure of language and our minds.In chapter 7, ‘Kids Say the Darnedest Things’, Pinker points out that children sometimes know that the mistakes they make are mistakes. He cites Dan Slobin and Tom Bever, psycholinguists who inserted their children’s speech errors into their own speech and recorded the results:<blockquote>TOM: Where’s Mommy? CHILD: Mommy goed to the store. TOM: Mommy goed to the store? CHILD: NO! (annoyed) Daddy, I say it that way, not you.</blockquote><blockquote>CHILD: You readed some of it too . . . she readed all the rest. DAN: She read the whole thing to you, huh? CHILD: Nu-uh, you read some. DAN: Oh, that’s right, yeah, I readed the beginning of it. CHILD: Readed? (annoyed surprise) Read! (pronounced rĕd) DAN: Oh yeah, read. CHILD: Will you stop that, Papa?</blockquote>Pinker infers from this, and from the evidence of more controlled studies, that children know irregular forms better than we might suppose; as they progressively master these forms, their errors are ‘slip-ups in which they cannot slot an irregular form into a sentence in real time’. Adults make similar slips, though nowhere near as often.The main points of Words and Rules are set out in a <a href="http://www.psichi.org/pdf/pinker.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">short lecture</a> (PDF) of the same name, while the London Review of Books has a <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n16/charles-yang/dig-dug-think-thunk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">critical review</a> by Charles Yang.<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/affixation/" target="_blank">#affixation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/affixes/" target="_blank">#affixes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/books/" target="_blank">#books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/children/" target="_blank">#children</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/grammar/" target="_blank">#grammar</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/language/" target="_blank">#language</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/language-acquisition/" target="_blank">#languageAcquisition</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/linguistics/" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/morphology/" target="_blank">#morphology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/plurals/" target="_blank">#plurals</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/psycholinguistics/" target="_blank">#psycholinguistics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/psychology/" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/speech/" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/speech-errors/" target="_blank">#speechErrors</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/steven-pinker/" target="_blank">#StevenPinker</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/tag/tense/" target="_blank">#tense</a>

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