Modality is a bitch (updated)

February 23, 2018 @ 8:23 pm · Filed by under Awesomeness, Humor, Language and politics, Pragmatics

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H/t (via retweet) Hugo Mercier.

UPDATE:

On Twitter, nothing worth saying is said only once.

February 23, 2018 @ 8:23 pm · Filed by under Awesomeness, Humor, Language and politics, Pragmatics


8 Comments

  1. Anschel Schaffer-Cohen said,

    February 23, 2018 @ 8:51 pm

    I see you're fitting well into the LLog content style.

  2. D.O. said,

    February 23, 2018 @ 10:44 pm

    Kushner should be offended.

  3. David Morris said,

    February 24, 2018 @ 4:35 am

    "We cannot have a better, or smarter, person representing our country … so we're sending her instead."

  4. Sili said,

    February 24, 2018 @ 8:33 am

    The version I saw first had "… Is there a law against it? "

  5. Rebecca said,

    February 24, 2018 @ 1:47 pm

    Yes, we can! Yes, we can!

  6. AntC said,

    February 24, 2018 @ 5:49 pm

    I think it's S. Korea should be offended: Trump Senior refuses to send a better/smarter representative.

    I think I'm right in saying the Trump administration has so far failed to appoint an ambassador. Perhaps all the better/smarter candidates have refused the invitation to be associated with this administration.

  7. AntC said,

    February 25, 2018 @ 12:53 am

    Just noted the commas around "Ivanka", making that an attributive relative rather than restrictive.

    So he's also managed to offend Tiffany.

  8. Jonathon Owen said,

    February 26, 2018 @ 1:37 pm

    There's also Nancy Friedman's "Why can't we?" That's the first one I saw.

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