I went to Waterstones earlier today IN THE RAIN specifically to find this book 👀

Just emailed you lol

@dannybate.bsky.social

Yup! That’s why we call it a “grinder” reading. The classic thought experiment is you can put something through the meat grinder and refer to its constituent “stuff”.

There’s dog/elephant/lion/donkey/apple/mango/boy all over the wall.

Genuine question: what do you get from commenting this?

I’m out here, bringing some fun linguistic research out of the ivory tower of academia, and all you care about is the grammar of the post?

I don’t care for the distinction in everyday language, and Bluesky is not my thesis.

Want to know more, and see how this plays out in other languages?

Non-singular reference: some preliminaries - Pelletier 1975

How Universal is the Universal Grinder? - Cheng et al 2008

Semantics for counting and measuring - Rothstein 2017

My thesis 😜 to be defended summer 2025!!!

Ahhhhh nice

I did some digging, and I’m apparently on some Cymraeg/Welsh enthusiast lists! How very exciting

Thanks for listening and giving feedback! Diolch!! 🥰

Thanks for listening! Glad you enjoyed it 🥰

Shwmae / مرحبا !!

Welsh and Arabic are a great combination of two very unrelated languages that are in a number of ways surprisingly similar!

I’m hoping so!!

I feel welcome!