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the mexican mafia as a significant threat some gang cops saw evidence of it on the street they attributed a few crimes to it but they never really saw it as an organization until that day in september in 1992 they were literally caught flat footed again no pun intended the fact that they could do this in broad daylight really started law enforcement scratching their heads about the power and influence of this group the second use probably refers to the phrase flat footed it s an interesting use of both literally and no pun intended in reference to the same phrase he s announcing that he s aware of the double meaning but assuring us that he doesn t intend it the first use isn t so clear is he referring to the double meaning of within the very shadow it s odd that he offers the parenthetical after the and setup to the next topic but that changeover is fuzzy he might in fact be using the phrase reactively or is he really anticipating on the street as the possible pun i doubt it there s quite a gap between the two i m not sure it sounds like he thought he was about to offer a pun but he never actually puts it out there the c span2 page on the program is here you should be able to watch if you have a realmedia plugin this section is about 5 minutes in what do you think offered up by wishydig at 06 29 5 comments tuesday september 30 2014 good days i m now in another country and not just visiting my wife has a job teaching at a university and i ve taken a break from teaching to finish my own studies and writing except that now that i m in this country i m taking a language class it s an odd experience as i ve never taken a language class i took old english which used to be a language but now she s dead of course while taking this class i have to bite my tongue when the teacher says something about her language or anyone else s that my linguistic training has taught me to bark at like a drug sniffing dog it hasn t been too much of a challenge because her opinions are moderate and a lot of her views are in line with current linguistic theories and accepted facts the first good sign was when on the first day of class she mentioned that turkish is not a difficult language it s just different she said good i thought she s not going to brag about her language being more sophisticated or other languages being less logical of course less than twenty minutes after saying this she did say russian is a very hard language merely a venial sin there s usually a detoxing session after the class when buffy will turn to me and say i was wondering what you thought when she said which is a nice sign that my ranting and raving has made an impression on my loved ones they re starting to recognize what sorts of pitches i like to take a swing at don t they actually just sit down next to the drugs when they find them without barking i don t know if that s true but it feels true right now offered up by wishydig at 16 34 2 comments tuesday june 03 2014 thirteen untranslatable words i m a language lover i have been since i was a kid just about eleven months after being born i started saying words and i ve been using them ever since i probably use words every day and i ve gotten pretty good at it but there s still so much for me to learn and learning languages other than english is always a fun challenge but what makes it so much harder is that a lot of languages have words in them that we just can t translate into english who knows if it s because we don t have the concept in english which makes it impossible to make up a word to label the concept or more interestingly maybe we don t have the concepts in english because we don t have the word history s first linguist a guy named sapir whorf discovered that without a word we can t think so in my research i went out and found some of the most amazing untranslatable words in the non american speaking world here they are in no particular order mamihlapinatapei this is one of the first words i learned about as an untranslatable word it s spoken by using a ancient and primitive language from chile in tierra del fuego tierra del fuego by the way means fire having land earth dirt which land earth dirt is being this land earth dirt the word mamihlapinatapei is unfortunately untranslatable toska this is a russian word it means uhhh it s sort of like hm well it s a cool meaning but you have to know russian to understand it iktsuarpok the inuits only have one word for this and therefore altho we can t know what this word means we do know that iktsuarpok isn t important or familiar to the inuits otherwise they d have 231 words for it shlimazl the yiddish word is used next to schlemiel a lot both of them meaning something related to each other the meaning is something close to uhhhh dammit this post is hard to write friolero no idea looks spanish the you might recognize this word but there is no english translation of it it is similar to a and an but it has a meaning that those two words just don t quite capture tartle scotts talk funny don t they torschlusspanik germans use this word you might notice it has the word panik in it which is close to english panic but those other parts mean some other sorts of things wabi sabi in japanese culture you have there are these ummm it rhymes with itself like that other untranslatable word oingo boingo hwæt this old english word used to be english when english wasn t yet old once it became old hwæt became impossible to use cafuné not even speakers of portuguese from portugal can understand this word only speakers of portuguese from brazil know what it means l appel du vide altho the french have one translation of this that they can share with us the call of the void they have since given it another more interesting meaning that they are keeping from us schadenfreude this weird german word roughly translates into the english word schadenfreude offered up by wishydig at 11 02 13 comments wednesday march 13 2013 evacuate the premises an hourlong wait for the answer to a simple question gets tiresome so i m not usually a fan of detective procedurals on tv i suppose that s also why some people are so uncomfortable with ambiguous syntax polysemous words and language change more generally understanding is hard well i do like one cop show a lot the wire it s intricate precise and consistent every character on the show is fallible every soul is broken by addiction betrayal torture improper english usage murder i started watching three months ago and now i m up to the first episode of season 5 one scene brought back memories of a conversation that took place several years ago in the language blog neighborhood here s the bit gus haynes sits at his desk reading and typing he calls out ms gutierrez gutierrez get your ass over here yeah you say that 120 people were evacuated yeah they were you can t evacuate people i mean you can if you want but that s not what you want to say here another man the fat bald bearded kind offers his analysis a building could be evacuated to evacuate a person is to give that person an enema the details miss gutierrez at the baltimore sun god still resides in the details as she walks away put in her place the fat bald guy jay spry cries out with the anguish of all obsolete convictions what are we gonna do with these children today not to worry his attempt to spread uninvestigated reassurance finds a home in alma gutierrez s eager little soul she has picked up her webster s new world desk dictionary and the camera shows her staring as she reads it he s right she says you don t evacuate people we have to remember that these are fictional characters and altho the wire is riddled with characters based on real life baltimorianders we can rest assured that neither of these superstitious editors is our friend the reasonable john mcintyre but what lesson can we learn here you need soft eyes investigate know your sources put facts together neglecting or more egregiously refusing to do all that is too often what leads to peeves complaints feigned confusion and the uninvestigated reassurance that stopped ms gutierrez from a fuller understanding of the word evacuate it also trips up many of our fellow web trotters i did a little searching to find conversations about this issue and i came across a story about a bomb threat in palo alto three commenters employee darwin and sketch provide the action click to enlarge so that you can read the tiny words notice that sketch s attempt to defend employee s use of evacuate doesn t actually defend the distinction precisely the entry merely supports the sense of evacuate as leave empty in other words to evacuate a building is to remove people from the building darwin s snippy response is on point if we accept that entry as the only admissible evidence in our investigation of the word s meaning this is similar to what gutierrez does after spry limits the meaning of the word for her this is also part of what i did when i saw that she was shown consulting webster s new world i went and got out my own copy of that dictionary not to see what i should believe but to see what the dictionary actually says and you know what it s possible to read that as the only meaning of evacuate that my copy of wnw gives for the sake of this argument let s say that we re trusting the dictionary to tell us which meanings are in common enough usage to be understood and relevant nothing in the entry clearly indicates that the object of evacuate can be the people or objects that are removed altho i would say that sense 3 a can be read this way with the evacuees as the objects of evacuate it s a tricky transitive structure if someone is just looking to prove rather than learn they could hang on to their belief and say that the implied object is place or area not inhabitants i say it s both i say the parentheses indicate two different possible objects of the transitive verb i m also guessing that gutierrez compact office dictionary has a whole lot of nothing where mine has something so the debate continues doesn t it such assurance in a limited resource is what led darwin to respond to sketch s invocation of the dictionary entry so approvingly i m glad you looked it up he says clearly the dictionary is given the final word as he hears it gutierrez used it to check spry s claim sketch used it shakily to debunk darwin s and darwin is glad to see him hoist by their mutual petard so case closed no not even if we decide we re going to end our search with a look at just one dictionary we have to admit that altho dictionaries try to be complete they re not always that s why most dictionaries have more than one edition sometimes because of errors but really because of changes in language and additions to our understanding so in almost all cases if you re trying to find out about a word use more than one dictionary but here s the fun part looking around we don t have to just look at the specific entry for a word to know what a dictionary thinks of that word every once in a while a dictionary entry is a little weak on the witness stand in this case look less than a centimeter down the page at the next entry for evacuation sense 2 and the entry right after that for evacuee see the dictionary knows how to talk just like people do if your god resides in the details he resides in all of them offered up by wishydig at 21 30 8 comments monday december 10 2012 ahem it s been over a year since i posted anything on this blog and i don t think the symbolism of an entirely silent 2012 is as beautiful and poignant as it is sad and discouraging so here s a little throat clearing to keep my voice ready i ve watched as several blogs that were part of my regular reading have winnowed down to archives and 404 errors the saddest examples are those small blogs with light readership that had something to say but felt ignored they remind me of the timid introvert at a party who works up the courage to add something to the conversation they speak so softly that they re interrupted and no one notices so they stop halfway thru their sentence and look around with a nervous smile pretending it didn t hurt i ve never felt ignored here but i do need a drink that ll get me talking offered up by wishydig at 09 19 3 comments wednesday november 30 2011 possible eggcorn hits close to home seen in a comment from a social networking site your alive i thought this was a line through a wishyboard i wouldn t have understood what this meant without the context but it s pretty clear that wishyboard is being used here instead of ouija board so we have the alteration substitution necessary for an eggcorn do we have a reasonable semantic reanalysis it s a tough one is it likely that wishy refers to the divining eking asking and pleading that might accompany a ouija board session is there wishing involved in the typical seance wishing upon a pentagram and beyond the possibility of a reanalysis here this is nonce term with extra weight on the once i couldn t find any relevant hits in a quick search on google this might be a true one off but there s just something about it offered up by wishydig at 23 34 2 comments labels eggcorn nonce words friday february 25 2011 on language is turned off the old grey lady ain t what she used to be ben zimmer was one of the first language bloggers to notice wishydig and occasionally direct readers this way i still remember that almost 4 years ago he was kind enough to mention one of my posts to mr verb it was a post i had written in response to one of william safire s not very careful on language columns on word history mr verb writing with the same frustration i felt remarked that it was time someone take over for the times resident language maven little did we know that in only a few years the column would be zimmer s earlier today zimmer announced that his on language column at least in its current incarnation is being dropped from the redesigned new york times magazine he has been trusted with that space for the past year and he repaid that trust with careful relevant reliable and interesting commentary on language to make his columns interesting he didn t resort to making up facts exaggerating claims or stoking fears he s a linguist who knows that language is fascinating on its own when represented accurately and analyzed reasonably i don t need to speculate about the business reasons for cutting on language from the times magazine i don t like it rational and insightful discussions of language are rare enough in mainstream news outlets there are too many dilettantes and dabblers who go no further than to complain about variation and throw tantrums against change zimmer on the other hand provides calm and informed commentary i m sure he will continue to do so at language log and the visual thesauraus this is a coda ending no syllable articulated by zimmer but by the new york times offered up by wishydig at 19 39 2 comments labels 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