Parallel syntactic structures and the twitterpocalypse

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 20, 2013, at 6:53 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> This is what happens when the "first read" is by the public, and not a copy
> editor...
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> DanG

I was hoping the author had unearthed a little-known fact about U.S. judicial history.  Lord knows I was too out of it in 1967 to have noticed.  It would mean that there are a lot of baby boomers (or their elder siblings, in my case) who have just learned that they're of mixed race origin or bastards.  Or, of course, both.

LH

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> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:12 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Subject:      Parallel syntactic structures and the twitterpocalypse
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>> Apparently, the authors and editor(s) of the following NBC News story
>> believe that "same-race marriages" were illegal until 1967. Perhaps
>> they were confused by the syntactically parallel structures: "same-sex
>> marriages" and "same-race marriages".
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>> Title: Gay marriage advocates win out in New Mexico; other state
>> efforts more doubtful
>> Authors: NBC's Vaughn Hillyard and Pete Williams
>> Website: nbcnews.com
>> http://firstread.
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>> /_news/2013/12/19/21972868-gay-marriage-advocates-win-out-in-new-mexico-other-state-efforts-more-doubtful
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>> [Begin excerpt]
>> The court compared the lack of governmental interest in classifying
>> marriages between same-sex couples to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1967
>> ruling legalizing same-race marriages.
>> [End excerpt]
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>> NBC News did tweet a link to this story. Evidence of the proof-reading
>> twitterpocalypse?
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>> [Begin tweet]
>> NBC News First Read @NBCFirstRead
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>> Gay marriage advocates win out in New Mexico; other state efforts more
>> doubtful http://nbcnews.to/1cUNXLa
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>> 6:37 PM - 19 Dec 2013
>> [End tweet]
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