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on of philly managing director adam no show jones thiel who was away from the office for nearly five months last year including time in the military reserve and presumably running his consulting firm from which he reported income of more than 300 000 that s in addition to his city salary of 316 000 the inquirer article shows continued morphing of the verb don from meaning put on don we now our gay apparel to meaning wear the newspaper reports ahead of a snowstorm in january 2024 thiel stood with mayor parker during a news conference about preparations he donned a suit while snowflakes fell and he reassured the city that the administration was ready for the service disruptions that bad weather can bring for those of us who still hew to the old meaning that s quite a visual image more posted in lexical semantics style and register 1 comment the raunchy verse of biblical manhood june 17 2025 consider the title totally not for kids or the sexually modest yesterday on a closed group for lgbt folk and their friends mp relayed a posting from gloryview ranch embrace biblical manhood sc yeehaw biblical manhood wtf is that eh sc seems to have a lot to do with horses and bacon just like in the bible where jesus broke bacon with his disciples az eh breaking into raunchy verse the cowboy s plea oh sweet buddy broke my bacon made me sizzle with his fork i keep my bacon hot and greasy pray he ll give me more fresh pork i note that the cowboy s plea contains no taboo vulgar lexical items but manages to be deeply raunchy by referring indirectly to sexual or excretory bodyparts and to sexual acts all through the miracle of metaphor some of it lexicalized some of it fresh but mostly as with the nouns fork and pork penis and the verbs fork and pork fuck skittering between the two the central metaphor in break someone s bacon pop bust someone s cherry break someone in sexually have sex with someone who is a virgin is a fresh one it achieves some degree of offensiveness through echoes of breaking communion bread and the friendly sharing of meals meanwhile the central metaphor incorporates the freshly metaphorical bacon fuckhole vagina or anus elaborated on in greasy alluding to lubes as aids in fucking more posted in gender and sexuality language and religion language and the body language of sex metaphor poetry style and register taboo language and slurs 2 comments elegantized insults january 29 2025 elegantized insult a replacement for an insulting word or phrase that s notably more elegant than the replaced item by using material from either the specialized or technical greco latin stratum of english vocabulary or its very formal registers for the purpose of humor either pointed mockery amplifying the insult or droll playfulness entertaining the audience two examples conveying without courage an example of the first type and conveying mockery came to me a few days ago in e mail anorchídic as a replacement for the insult ball less then an example of the second type and conveying jocularity lacking intestinal fortitude for the insult gutless i ll go through the examples in some detail and then riff some on sophisticated insults in various senses of sophisticated more posted in euphemism figurative language humor insults metaphor pragmatics slang style and register taboo language and slurs 5 comments a dozen or so senses of the c word november 22 2024 well consider the title if this posting which tells you that it s going to get into some vivid descriptions of sexual parts and sexual acts plus a photo that s just barely wordpressable and you ll see that it s not suitable for kids or the sexually modest and from here on you re going to get the c word raw and unconcealed but your enthusiasm for this dirty talk will probably be diminished when it turns out that this posting is mostly about lexical semantics more posted in address terms context dialects gay porn insults language and the body language change lexical semantics metaphor metonymy personification style and register taboo language and slurs variation 6 comments apostrophobia november 16 2024 wayno s bizarro for 11 8 yes i am hopelessly overwhelmed with posting material wondering whether i ll ever catch up on the other hand my health has taken a turn back to normal awful which i m entirely able to cope with is a psychiatrist strip in which the patient is said to be suffering from in fact cowering behind the therapeutic couch in the grips of the fear of contractions of the types of traditionally labeled contractions in english the patient here call him noa seems to exhibit sensitivity specifically to just one now known in the linguistic literature as auxiliary reduction auxred for short in i am i m i had i d and you are you re though in fact wayno sees noa s sensitivity as triggered by all occurrences of the punctuation mark the apostrophe of which there are a great many types hence wayno s title for this cartoon punctuation trepidation if you re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon wayno says there are 7 in this strip see this page now if this is noa s affliction he s in for a world of trouble because in modern english spelling the apostrophe is used as an abstract mark for possessive forms of nominals singular in someone s cat and the queen of england s hat plural in the boys bat a visual mark accompanying the possessive s but while the the letter s in such forms corresponds to phonological content the apostrophe neither represents phonological content nor indicates a place where some phonological content is omitted so how does noa know that sʌm wǝnz kæt in some sense has an apostrophe in it and he should cringe in fear at it more posted in comic conventions language processing linguistics in the comics perception possession psycholinguistics psychology singular plural spelling style and register variation writing conventions 1 comment swim meat the video october 30 2024 publicity for a gay porn video entertaining in its way but absolutely off limits for kids and the sexually modest three jack o lanterns for penultimate october halloween eve that is the day before the day before the day of the dead in my house the day when the pussyboys go out to seek their phallic prey into this scene comes this morning s e mail from the falcon nakedsword store offering hot house movie download discounts full movies 11 95 each with right at the top the crudely pun titled video swim meat and its cover illustration offering four fine pieces of swim meat one johnny v s just barely concealed by his swimwear plus three proudly jutting tubesteaks that i ve had to suppress for wordpress modesty but here you can view the uncensored cover along with the publicity text more posted in compounds discourse organization gay porn holidays hyperbole language and the body language of sex language play lexical semantics metaphor puns semantics of compounds style and register taboo language and slurs 1 comment the 2025 arnold zwicky award october 13 2024 it is my annual november pleasure to discourse some on the just revealed winner of the az award from the linguistic society of america the minimal announcement from the lsa this award is intended to recognize the contributions of lgbtq scholars in linguistics and is named for arnold zwicky the first lgbtq president of the lsa join the committee on lgbtq z issues in linguistics in congratulating robert j podesva on receiving this prestigious award a stanford associate professor he researches phonetic variation and identity while actively mentoring lgbtq students to promote inclusivity in academia rob is the fourth awardee preceded by kirby conrod for 2022 rusty barrett for 2023 and lal zimman for 2024 and will be officially feted at the lsa s annual meetings in january i always provide some encomium material for the awardees on this blog but this year is special because rob is an old friend a former student of mine his phd dissertation committee was penny eckert chair john rickford and me which is about as socioculturally diverse a committee of three as you could concoct in the academic world and a valued colleague of mine at stanford so there are four reasons for me to write this posting and i will take some liberties in digressing into personal remarks along the way more posted in academic life awards gender and sexuality homosexuality linguists sociolinguistics stanford style and register leave a comment dream blending august 24 2024 it appeared on pinterest this morning with no information beyond the artist s name anthony cudahy a dreamlike sexual encounter like this one 1 like this one but with a significant dream penis and testicle which hog our attention eventually i ll show you full frontal man but here we re drawn to the relationship between the somewhat anxious yellow hued guy and the purple guy looming over him note the subtle hand on yellow guys s head and then the head of another purple figure behind him a remembered character no doubt from another artwork cudahy s or someone else s i d tell you more about this painting but this is all i ve got so far the only copy of the image on the net seems to be this one on pinterest my first experience of cudahy s world a quick intro from wikipedia anthony cudahy born in florida 1989 is an american painter cudahy s approach is both figurative and abstract and takes inspiration from a breadth of source material ranging from personal photographs movie stills queer archival images and ephemera and art history cudahy lives and works in brooklyn new york cudahy s paintings are often a hybrid of visual histories blending various figures from art history and queer photography into contemporary scenes such as portraiture domestic spaces or social sites now for more detail more posted in art homosexuality language and gender language and medicine language and plants male art music style and register leave a comment dogs on wheels june 25 2024 well it s about attachment ambiguity in a family of memes about dogs chasing people on two wheeled vehicles mostly bicycles along the way i ll use this opportunity to expose some of the complexities of my blogging life the story begins on 6 23 with a message from ellen kaisse a regular on this blog offering me this memic wheel dog joke that turns on an ambiguity between low and high attachment of the modifying pp on a bicycle 1 did the neighbo u r report that some people on a bicycle were being chased by the dog or that the dog was on a bicycle in pursuit of some people the human in the photo cartoon supposes the former the dog the latter in the human s report the pp is intended as a modifier of the head n people within the direct object np of the verb chasing low attachment la which you could also think of as narrow attachment but the dog s response makes it clear that it understands the pp as modifying the vp are chasing people high attachment ha which you could also think of as wide attachment there is a page on this blog about my postings on modifier attachment including lots of cases of potential la vs ha ambiguity there s some overall preference for la but how things are understood in actual usage depends very much on the plausibility in context of the two understanding the text in 1 has the bre spelling neighbour but there are otherwise identical versions out there with the ame spelling neighbor plus otherwise identical versions in which the cycle in the text is a motorcycle rather than a bicycle and then there are further variations lots of them on both image and text a couple of them reproduced below in any case ek cautiously added the note you ve probably seen this before her caution the product of previous occasions on which she sent me some cool example and i told her that i d posted an analysis of it in 2008 or 2015 or whenever this time i was in fact sure that i d seen a version of 1 and had posted about it but then i couldn t find it on any of my blogs or in the to blog files on my computer or in the to blog 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