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9 years ago @ The Toast - "This tiny cup of coff... · 1 reply · +79 points

My god, "Lilliputhammer by Lillehammer" is such a fantastic pun.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 3 replies · +7 points

Similarly, I have been aggressively avoiding any information about the content of Gathering Blue for the better part of a decade now.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Edith Wharton Reviews ... · 1 reply · +4 points

Here you go! http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ameri...

10 years ago @ The Toast - Hot New Travel Apps · 0 replies · +3 points

For what it's worth, you can probably find the creepiest abandoned asylum in Prague on this site, a Czech blog that shows abandoned places: https://opustenamista.wordpress.com/.

10 years ago @ The Toast - What The Happiest Woma... · 3 replies · +10 points

I read this marvelous memoir–cum–gastronomic history of the Soviet Union called Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking which devotes a chapter to how horrifyingly austere the 1920s were in the USSR. After that, it got a little better, but not much.

10 years ago @ The Toast - What The Happiest Woma... · 5 replies · +23 points

Man, I shopped a class once on the Russian avant-garde and the professor showed this as an example of decadent pre-Revolutionary kitsch. But oh, what marvelous kitsch!

10 years ago @ The Toast - A Linguist Explains th... · 0 replies · +4 points

If the implied subject were I (as with God), you'd have "Fuck myself!" instead of "Fuck me!"

10 years ago @ The Toast - A Linguist Explains th... · 0 replies · +2 points

Shit, you're right! But I think it's perfectly kosher for words to select for certain kinds of CPs:

I wonder if the Toasties are going to like my data.
*I wonder that the Toasties are going to like my data.

Arguably this could be a semantic constraint rather than a syntactic one—that is, the meaning of the verb "wonder" isn't compatible with "that"-headed CPs. I'm not sure how fuck/hell would be semantic, though, bringing us back to square one.

10 years ago @ The Toast - A Linguist Explains th... · 2 replies · +1 points

I mean, calling something an "informal shortening" isn't really a helpful explanation in most cases. The "Hell if I know" example below seems to confirm that it's not really, in this case: we do have a genuine construction here.

10 years ago @ The Toast - A Linguist Explains th... · 6 replies · +4 points

Yeah, I agree with your intuition on hooray, and "hooray that you" is attested.

*Shit on that you didn't get the job., on the other hand, is abysmal.

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