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When will my computer run out of battery? WHO KNOWS.
Earlier today...
In Linguistic Anthro. Just successfully gave a presentation on an article by Michael Silverstein, who appears to have blown his entire budget on 50 cent words. Example sentence: "Here, recall, community is the performative baptismal magic in the discourse of identity politics that turns macrosociological categories -- various demographic aspects of individuals as they exist in a social formation -- into imagined homogeneous groups with an executive or at least agentive ability to act in given institutional contexts[...]"
In Linguistic Anthro. Just successfully gave a presentation on an article by Michael Silverstein, who appears to have blown his entire budget on 50 cent words. Example sentence: "Here, recall, community is the performative baptismal magic in the discourse of identity politics that turns macrosociological categories -- various demographic aspects of individuals as they exist in a social formation -- into imagined homogeneous groups with an executive or at least agentive ability to act in given institutional contexts[...]"