{"id":153,"date":"2005-11-03T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/embedded_music_\/"},"modified":"2005-11-03T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T15:39:30","slug":"embedded_music_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/language\/embedded_music_\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedded Music Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/fist.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=345,height=197,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"57\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fist\" title=\"Fist\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/fist.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I was reading interviews with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and I came across what I think is the most tricky and yet correct and clear sentence by a rockstar in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimesbpb.com\/Issues\/2005-10-20\/music\/music.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> that I have ever seen, containing about four levels of embedded clauses:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I&#8217;d love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s finished with a flourish of &quot;like.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I emailed the linguist Mark Liberman at Language Log about it, and he promptly established &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002621.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Trent Reznor Prize for Tricky Embedding<\/a>, to be awarded intermittently.&quot; As a sidenote, Mark also commented that &quot;Reznor seems to be a bit confused about where footnotes go.&quot; But then, Trent didn&#8217;t get where he is today by properly formatting term papers.<\/p>\n<p>I also read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/search\/index.ssf?\/base\/entertainment-1\/1130508948106630.xml?nola\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> where Trent discusses his participation in Hurricane Katrina benefit concerts this past weekend, and it closes with the understatement of the week:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t know that we&#8217;re the ultimate feel-good, everything-is-going-to-be-OK band. But hey, we&#8217;re doing what we can.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they played Fistfuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was reading interviews with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and I came across what I think is the most tricky and yet correct and clear sentence by a rockstar in an interview that I have ever seen, containing about four levels of embedded clauses: &quot;When I look at people that I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}