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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:14pm on 2010-10-12

Since linguistics is a science, we should be able to perform linguistic experiments. So I'm (perhaps symptomatically) experimenting with a construction in English. So far I haven't decided whether I like it. Maybe I'll be able to decide after I've done what I describe in my example:

There's a level of wrongness I'm feeling that tells me maybe I should reach for the basil and cocoa powder[*] to try to head off even-wrongerness.

[*] Cheap migraine remedy -- nowhere near as effective as the prescription ones, so best to take it early.

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posted by [personal profile] adrian_turtle at 03:30am on 2010-10-14
Not all science is experimental. Consider astronomy (or much of geology), where experiments are just a way to calibrate the measurement techniques. They are sciences because of the systematic ways scientists observe and measure what's happening, not because they have any kind of control over what happens.

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