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corner.nationalreview.com - 1/22/2009
Pinker's Stinker
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Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker has never been inclined to let the facts get in the way of his pet theories, as this NRO essay by my Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague Yuval Levin illustrates. In a New York Times op-ed today, Pinker speculates that Chief Justice Roberts's ...
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu - 1/21/2009
Adverbial placement in the oath flub
— languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu — Chief Justice John Roberts' administration of the presidential oath to Barack Obama was far from smooth. Early... reports differ in saying who stumbled: NBC and ABC say the flub was Roberts', while the AP says it was Obama's. I think both men were a bit ... (more) Adverbial placement in the oath flub

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mediamatters.org - 1/21/2009
Fox News anchors harp on oath story that experts reportedly say is insignificant
— mediamatters.org — During Fox News' coverage of President Barack Obama's January 20 inauguration, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News... Sunday , asserted, "I'm not sure that Barack Obama really is the president of the United States, because the oath of office is set in ... (more) Fox News anchors harp on oath story that experts ...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/22/2009
Roberts's Rules
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — Just wanted to highlight something I wrote yesterday about Chief Justice John Roberts and his inauguration flub.... President Obama (!) was gracious enough to exonerate him and even credit Roberts for helping him out. But it sure seemed like Roberts ... (more) Roberts's Rules

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Whelan Responds to Pinker:
The Volokh Conspiracy — Ed Whelan responds to Steven Pinker's split-infinitive theory of Chief Justice Roberts' mistaken recitation of the presidential oath here : . . . In a New York Times op-ed today, Pinker speculates that Chief Justice Roberts’s “habit of grammatical niggling” explains his flubbing of the presidential oath. In particular, Pinker supposes that Roberts embraces the “split-verb myth”, which would bar insertion of an adverb between an auxiliary verb (e.g., “will”) and the main verb (e.g., “execute”). I agree with Pinker that the split-verb myth (as well as its subsidiary rule against ...

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