Morphosyntactic variation: Hamlet, Gertrude, Marshall, Bachmann
Language Log 2013-04-30
Summary:
Over the past few days, I've come across two attempts at antique English verb inflection in a modern political context. One of them is from Josh Marshall, "Godzilla vs. Mothra", TPM 4/29/2013:This is wild. Bilious WaPo blogger Jennifer Rubin lashes out at “jerk” Sen. Ted Cruz, says he must apologize to GOP colleagues.And the popcorn [...]