{"id":123,"date":"2006-03-07T19:47:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/brokeback_wordp\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T19:47:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:47:44","slug":"brokeback_wordp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/language\/brokeback_wordp\/","title":{"rendered":"Brokeback Wordplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=135,height=102,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/gaybatman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/gaybatman.jpg\" title=\"Gaybatman\" alt=\"Gaybatman\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>Recently I noticed that Brokeback Mountain had spawned a new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snowclone\">snowclone<\/a>: when people want to say that X is gay, they might refer to &quot;Brokeback X.&quot; So I emailed Mark Liberman, a linguist over at Language Log, about it, to see what he had to say. And I sent him the first three relevant examples I found, which he initially hesitated to post, deeming them offensive. (What could be offensive about a Broadway show in which Mohammed and his followers pray by forming <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/daisy-chain.urbanup.com\/63369\">daisy chains<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002904.html\">here&#8217;s his post<\/a>, with larger commentary on the zeitgeist, and a note on the &quot;competitive high-stakes field of lingua-blogging.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I noticed that Brokeback Mountain had spawned a new snowclone: when people want to say that X is gay, they might refer to &quot;Brokeback X.&quot; So I emailed Mark Liberman, a linguist over at Language Log, about it, to see what he had to say. And I sent him the first three relevant examples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-language","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}