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Jonathan Schofield
@urlyman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

#linguistics

The beginning of a 1994 New Yorker article entitled ‘How I Met My Wife’:

“It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate.

I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way”

Read it unpaywalled at https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-wife.html

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ChasMusic (he/him)
@ChasMusic@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@urlyman I remember sharing it many years ago with a group of language lovers. A native Italian who I consider fluent in English reported finding it unintelligible.

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Thomas Rigby
@hryggrbyr@fedia.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@urlyman@mastodon.social oh that's lovely!

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Jonathan Schofield
@urlyman@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

…Or the paywalled Jack Winter original at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-wife

The New Yorker

How I Met My Wife

“How I Met My Wife” by Jack Winter was published in the print edition of the July 25, 1994, issue of The New Yorker.
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