Comments for prosody.lab http://prosodylab.org prosody at mcgill and beyond Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:55:10 -0400 hourly 1 Comment on if worst comes to worst by chael http://prosodylab.org/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-140 chael Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:55:10 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/labblog/?p=267#comment-140 I was referring to the conclusion that you and your friends reached that "'worst comes to worse' made most sense". In the Google count, it came ahead of the two versions recommended on the website you cite---but you're right of course, that it wasn't the majority, it was the runner up behind 'worse comes to worse.' I was referring to the conclusion that you and your friends reached that “‘worst comes to worse’ made most sense”. In the Google count, it came ahead of the two versions recommended on the website you cite—but you’re right of course, that it wasn’t the majority, it was the runner up behind ‘worse comes to worse.’

]]> Comment on if worst comes to worst by camille http://prosodylab.org/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-139 camille Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:24:19 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/labblog/?p=267#comment-139 Actually, no, I'm in the tiniest minority group according to Google, for using 'worse comes to worst'. Actually, no, I’m in the tiniest minority group according to Google, for using ‘worse comes to worst’.

]]> Comment on if worst comes to worst by chael http://prosodylab.org/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-138 chael Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:33:15 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/labblog/?p=267#comment-138 Looks like you're with the majority of people according to Google. Maybe the web-site you point to is ripe for an update! Looks like you’re with the majority of people according to Google. Maybe the web-site you point to is ripe for an update!

]]> Comment on if worst comes to worst by camille http://prosodylab.org/?p=267&cpage=1#comment-137 camille Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:58:04 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/labblog/?p=267#comment-137 Ha ha ha. My friends and I talked about this for 20 minutes on Saturday. What a crack-up that it's on your and other people's minds. Like you, I have always said 'if worse comes to worst' because to me it made the most sense: it's more bad than bad already, and if it goes one step further, that's the least desirable outcome'. However, it was decided on Saturday that 'worst comes to worse' made the most sense, and I agreed in the end: if the worst possible scenario gets even worse, what could possibly be worse than that? Glad to know someone cares about this issue as much as my friends and I. Found this, too: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/worse.html Ha ha ha. My friends and I talked about this for 20 minutes on Saturday. What a crack-up that it’s on your and other people’s minds.

Like you, I have always said ‘if worse comes to worst’ because to me it made the most sense: it’s more bad than bad already, and if it goes one step further, that’s the least desirable outcome’. However, it was decided on Saturday that ‘worst comes to worse’ made the most sense, and I agreed in the end: if the worst possible scenario gets even worse, what could possibly be worse than that?

Glad to know someone cares about this issue as much as my friends and I. Found this, too:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/worse.html

]]> Comment on paper on rhyme by Rhyme is in the Air http://prosodylab.org/?p=459&cpage=1#comment-126 Rhyme is in the Air Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:51:38 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/?p=459#comment-126 [...] also a more recent post here. mw, august 8 [...] [...] also a more recent post here. mw, august 8 [...]

]]> Comment on rhyme is in the air by Paper on Rhyme http://prosodylab.org/?p=46&cpage=1#comment-125 Paper on Rhyme Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:38:31 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/labblog/?p=46#comment-125 [...] Something everyone seems to have intuitions about is: What types of rhyme sound good? What types of rhyme sound bad? One particular type of rhyme, called ‘identity rhyme’ (write/right, to bear, a bear), is licit in French but quite poor in English (So poor indeed that King James proscribed the use of identity rhymes in a treatise in 1584.) See an earlier post on the topic here. [...] [...] Something everyone seems to have intuitions about is: What types of rhyme sound good? What types of rhyme sound bad? One particular type of rhyme, called ‘identity rhyme’ (write/right, to bear, a bear), is licit in French but quite poor in English (So poor indeed that King James proscribed the use of identity rhymes in a treatise in 1584.) See an earlier post on the topic here. [...]

]]> Comment on amlap 2010 by 6th international workshop on language production http://prosodylab.org/?p=363&cpage=1#comment-110 6th international workshop on language production Thu, 06 May 2010 13:03:20 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/labblog/?p=363#comment-110 [...] looks like it’s going to be an interesting event, conveniently scheduled right before AMLaP at York [...] [...] looks like it’s going to be an interesting event, conveniently scheduled right before AMLaP at York [...]

]]> Comment on michael wagner by BLING » Blog Archive » Talk by Wagner on May 6 http://prosodylab.org/?page_id=132&cpage=1#comment-109 BLING » Blog Archive » Talk by Wagner on May 6 Thu, 06 May 2010 02:59:48 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/labblog/?page_id=132#comment-109 [...] Michael Wagner McGill University [...] [...] Michael Wagner McGill University [...]

]]> Comment on florian jaeger and dave embick at mcgill by womm! 2010 http://prosodylab.org/?p=430&cpage=1#comment-107 womm! 2010 Sun, 02 May 2010 21:15:27 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/?p=430#comment-107 [...] Public Talk by Florian Jaeger Room 501 of the Goodman Cancer Research Centre, 1160 Pine Ave. [...] [...] Public Talk by Florian Jaeger Room 501 of the Goodman Cancer Research Centre, 1160 Pine Ave. [...]

]]> Comment on womm! 2010 by florian jaeger and dave embick talks at mcgill http://prosodylab.org/?p=407&cpage=1#comment-106 florian jaeger and dave embick talks at mcgill Sun, 02 May 2010 18:57:37 +0000 http://prosodylab.org/?p=407#comment-106 [...] an invited lecture for the CRLMB consisting of two mini-talks this Monday, May 3rd, as part of the WOMM! Statistics workshop on logit mixed models. Titles: “Efficiency in production: How speakers design their [...] [...] an invited lecture for the CRLMB consisting of two mini-talks this Monday, May 3rd, as part of the WOMM! Statistics workshop on logit mixed models. Titles: “Efficiency in production: How speakers design their [...]

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