posted by
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.
(no subject)