Faith vs. WF

Still another inventory of postings on Language Log and this blog, this time of discussions of conflicts between faithfulness (Faith) and well-formedness (WF), updating the inventory in “Article-article article abstract” and adding very brief annotations.

This inventory doesn’t include some types of cases that have been discussed in these blogs, but without an actual reference to faithfulness, among them: use vs. avoidance of taboo vocabulary in quotation (except in “A few dollops of taboo avoidance”, below); preservation vs. adaptation in borrowing (except in “If you’re uneducated you say it right”, below); “semantic” vs. “grammatical” determination in agreement; assignment of nouns to Count or Mass (on the basis of semantics vs. conventions).

AZ, 1/29/06: Dubious quotation marks:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002796.html

punctuation and spelling

AZ, 4/9/07: Ducky identity:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004388.html

spelling

AZ, 8/1/07: Cousin of eggcorn:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004777.html

(mis)quotation

AZ, 8/12/07: e e cummings and his iPod: Faith vs. WF again:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004821.html

spelling (esp. capitalization)

AZ, 9/21/07: Punctuational hypercorrection:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004938.html

punctuation

AZ, 3/23/08: Article-article article abstract:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005486.html

articles in proper names

AZ, 8/17/08: A few dollops of taboo avoidance:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=483

taboo avoidance

AZ, 10/30/08: Periods:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=779

periods in abbreviations

GP, 2/2/09: If you’re uneducated you say it right:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1095

borrowing

http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/blackberrys-and-blackberrying/

spelling