{"id":111,"date":"2008-01-10T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-11-19T00:38:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T04:38:55","slug":"pullum-deems-student-pompous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Pullum deems student pompous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at languagelog, Geoffrey Pullum\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/005308.html\">takes a student to task<\/a> for writing on a test that some phrases in an example sentence &#8220;were not deemed noun phrases.&#8221; \u00a0He feels that students shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;deeming&#8221; anything, as they&#8217;re the students and he&#8217;s the professor, and that further pomposity was added by the passive voice. \u00a0When I read his post, I realized that if I had been grading that paper, I would have interpreted the student&#8217;s locution entirely differently: it&#8217;s possible that the student used the passive voice to invoke unnamed experts who have already done the deeming elsewhere, and the student was merely reporting on that fact. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure it would have struck me that the student was weighing in a bit too heavily to make his point, however it&#8217;s not entirely clear to me that it was the student who intended to do the deeming in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it couldn&#8217;t have been a very high-level course, as the task was to identify noun phrases in a sentence, so I think all the deeming on that subject has been done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at languagelog, Geoffrey Pullum\u00a0takes a student to task for writing on a test that some phrases in an example sentence &#8220;were not deemed noun phrases.&#8221; \u00a0He feels that students shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;deeming&#8221; anything, as they&#8217;re the students and he&#8217;s the professor, and that further pomposity was added by the passive voice. \u00a0When I read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tractorfeed.com\/strictlyspeaking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}