"Between you and I"

Language Log 2025-10-05

Summary:

Politics aside, there's been some prescriptivist reaction to (part of) a Signal exchange among White House aides Anthony Salisbury and Patrick Weaver about the idea of deploying the 82nd Airborne to Portland. From  The Guardian : “Between you and I, I think Pete just wants the top cover from the boss if anything goes sideways […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71451&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=between-you-and-i

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

10/05/2025, 11:30

Date published:

10/05/2025, 10:42