Tree Diagrams can be useful to structure a sentence, but the UG system of “assume one system fits every language cuz inherent ability” is bad.

If you want to check your understanding of how phrases, clauses and words connect to each other in a certain language, trees can be pretty powerful.

To the latter point: My biggest gripe with linguistics is the tendency to boil everything down to a simple system.

Do you want to elaborate more on how politeness cant be explained by gricean maximes?

Fuss e.v. klingt eher nach institutionellem Fußfetischismus

Fortunately i am not american

Here the need part: you dont. Because chomskyite grammar sucks sweaty balls.

Tbf, by my second run through Intro to Pragmatics i got the maxims. But our prof had some really strange interpretations of them.

I sincerely hope for you, that the candidate thats worse for the us wont win.

And i continue to hope youll be safe someday.

The largest armed force in the gaza strip is deeply religious and the entire reason the support they receive from their biggest ally, the IRR, is religion. If Hamas were Sunni muslims instead of Shia, Iran would remain silent. Just as they were, when their Shia allies in Syria and Yemen started to massacre non-Shia in the region.

Mondoweiss is using the same kind of euphemisms around the 7.10 that the rest of the press is using for Israels crimes.

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Is what people say, until they are the egg that is to be broken.

Ah the gricean maximes, the bane of my intro to pragmatics class

Saying that something is a death threat is not sympathizing with someone.

Nooo, youre supposed to say that both sides are the same :(

No one said they were

Hurra, de cuckstoel is nog vrij

Take a hard Look at your partner, this is the best you’ll ever get. Dont fuck it up. Listen to them and go to fucking therapy.

Holy Shit Dude.

When extermination methods were tested to relieve the Einsatzgruppen which had up to that point in the war been shooting people close up, by hand, gas vans were used. As tests. Until Zyklon B was introduced.

I don’t know what you’re on, but it is a historic fact that before the gas chambers were used, gas vans were a method of murder.

“i shidded and farted and peed.” -Ronald Reagan

And yet, they still did it

It would have been karmic justice for both Sinwar and Netanyahu to be killed within one week.