livetweeting reruns of Designing Women

I didn't write this. Credit where credit is due: Langacker, FCG 28

Is this a fair critique of Generative Linguistics? "because grammatical morphemes and syntactic relationships are nonsemantic in character, and because sentences can therefore differ in grammatical form without semantic consequences, it follows that syntax is autonomous."

I mean, he even makes Aaron be in charge of killing all those animals. Spite.

The whole sacrificial system was instituted because God was mad about the Golden Calf getting all the love.

Dude wrote an appendix where he disagreed with author!

Reading a dissertation where the advisor's comments are printed in line. This is embarrassing!

This is certainly a hot take... but, alas, it isn't so.

This German scholar from 1905 keeps referring to the Vulgate as H (for Jerome, duh). Has anyone else run into this?

Paternalism dressed in a Black Lives Matter shirt is still paternalism

@srpescador1973 Anyway, call Jesus what you like. It just struck me as odd when this author was trying to sound hip, and it didn't land well... for me.

@srpescador1973 He actually says he's their one *teacher* so we should be calling him our didaskolas. Go and do likewise.

Don't do this

@srpescador1973 But, I'm also getting crotchety in my old age

@srpescador1973 Secondly, those who wish to reverance Jesus have a number of titles by which to do so; Jesus is, of course, referred to as Rabbi in NT, but the application is not that he is also our rabbi... if you believe he is your Lord, Savior, etc. call him that. He's not your rabbi.

I'm going to write a grammar on "Animal Hebrew" where I analyse the speech of talking animals (and animal-faced angels?) in the Bible. DM me to support financially.

@sarabmohr That's like two books

Trying CBD for anxiety/depression and I might've just organized the K-Cups at work

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