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@jasonbaldridge you’ve landed on the same point as @wpmcn — synecdoche, not pleonasm. I think I was wrong.

@languagehacker i made a “here document” joke; I spend more time in shell-ish than in C. but same basic idea?

RT @redpony ‘seen in Ken Church talk: “Shannon >> Chomsky” #aclhlt11’ the “Church of Chomsky” (…Shannon) jokes get even more complicated

@redpony some kind of here document? (j/k, of course. but I want $\gg$ to work in twitter too).

linguistics can be absurd: “it” in “shake it baby shake it” is “dummy object” or possibly a “booger anaphor”. h/t @fritinancy @linguajinks

@linguajinks I have never heard “booger-anaphora” before, but now I have to find more opportunities to use it. #thenewdonkeyanaphora

@imtboo @moosepajamas please don’t! (though you’d still be cute!)

@imtboo cute haircut ! 🙂

@GrantBarrett ha. “ahead of its time” or “box-office flop” also used.

@Fritinancy @pammybean is the presence of dummy object selecting a different (transitive) sense of “shake”? I think maybe it is.