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In “shake it baby now” and “move it!”, I just told @Fritinancy that “it” is a “dummy object” (cf “weather it”) Linguipeeps: is this nuts?

@Fritinancy @pammybean I am making it up as I go along. Evidence not terrible: dummy objects used with mandatorily transitive verb senses?

@TribeOneWon dude needs to be granted amnesty, just for the bizarre story. Also, needs to know he can find grace in this world. #showhim

@Fritinancy “weather it” also called “Dummy Subject”; perhaps you want “Dummy Object” (as in “shake it up baby now”)

@Fritinancy wow, that really looks like a “weather it” (“it’s raining”) in object position.

@luclatulippe well, back up now, but blog post was intermittently “server overloaded, BRB” page. All good now #suspicious #ofcourse

@rmathematicus srsly? yr objection is that it’s imprecise? ∃ objections I’d buy, but not that one. pull the other leg. cc @stevesilberman

@luclatulippe and the NNN seems to have (perhaps inadvertently) #webfailed instapaper’s site…

@rmathematicus wasn’t my wording; @stevesilberman IMO was nodding to #Turing’s revolutionary work. what’s abomination? patri/kyri-archy?

@Fritinancy works fine on Windows too (I just got no experience with it).