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Presidential reflexive pronoun with no permissible antecedent

Well, for language geeks like me, Language Log is an awfully fun blog -- always some obscure grammatical points dissected and debated.

Today's turn of the screw is on Bush English, that, despite whatever support you may or may not have for the man, is depressing for lovers of the lingua anglica.

Gotta love blogs that post sentences like this:

That's a genuine emphatic (notice, syntax nerds, it's the obligatorily focused final constituent in a pseudogapping construction).

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