Monday 23 August 2021

weather it

Unaccustomed to this particular topolect and formation meaning it is raining outside, we quite enjoyed the discussion parsing the ambient it of “it rained out”—first construed as something akin to a rain-cheque then followed by interlocutors owning that they think that they would say rather than being absolutely definitive—like with being pressed one how one would pronounce a word, and while richer for knowing it and given that such questions are descriptive rather than prescriptive, we found the hyperlocal, additive admonition to “close the door when you leave out” rather astonishing. What do you think? The pronoun of the title phrase refers to the argument by imminent thinker Noam Chomsky that the it isn’t a dummy subject but a proper, controlling agent when talking about those conditions we withstand.