Linguist jokes that 'sent you a reel' vs 'sent a reel to you' is a new dative alternation
najoungkim · x · 2026-10-27
Computational linguist Najoung Kim riffs on a viral tweet noting that 'sent you a reel' stings but 'sent a reel to you' doesn't, joking it's a 'new meaning of the dative alternation' — the double-object vs prepositional dative distinction getting a pragmatic spin from social media context.
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