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Official English in the US will have life and death consequences. This is not an exaggeration.
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phonologist in search of new frameworks in syntax
![“Harvey Sacks often spoke of the possibility of ‘order at all points’, and in one of his lectures (Sacks, 1966 [1992:I:238]) tells us that 'we’re dealing with something real and powerful. And not just grossly powerful, like, it provides for the rate of industrial development, but it provides for little tiny things that God might have overlooked, perhaps’ … (I have a feeling that Sacks’ specifically formulating this sort of material as something he found 'enormously amusing’, or had 'a fascination’ with, was dealing with their on-the-face-of-it utter trivialness, even for the sort of mundane stuff he was known to work with. These 'little tiny things’ were perhaps beginning to be just a bit too tiny for comfort.)”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f6htgft4zebgllfmetmz7hvr/bafkreidxe2rkzhucdwomzgcnlghivsct736fyvrmy5mjefkgddhbgp73wq)
