{"id":1216,"date":"2022-02-20T03:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T03:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2022-02-20T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T23:04:03","slug":"curious-case-pilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/curious-case-pilled\/","title":{"rendered":"The curious case of -pilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent asks whether \u2013<em>pilled<\/em> is a libfix. I note <em>grillpilled <\/em>(when you stop caring about politics and focus on cooking meat outdoors) and <em>catpilled<\/em> (when you get toxoplasmosis). While writing this, I was wondering whether anyone has declared themselves <em>tennispilled<\/em>; yes, someone has.<\/p>\n<p>The etymology of\u00a0<em>-pilled<\/em> seems clear enough. The phrase <em>taking the {blue, red} pill <\/em>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zE7PKRjrid4&amp;ab_channel=Movieclips\">that scene in <em>The Matrix\u00a0<\/em>(1998)<\/a> gave rise to the idiomatic compounds <em>blue pill\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>red pill<\/em>. These then underwent zero derivation, giving us <em>bluepilled <\/em>and (especially) <em>redpilled<\/em>. The most common syntactic function for these two words seems to be as a sort of perfective adjective, possibly with an agentive <em>by<\/em>-phrase (e.g., &#8220;I was <em>redpilled<\/em> by Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s IG&#8221;), but I also recognize a construction where the agent has been promoted to subject position and the object is the benefactor (e.g., &#8220;Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s IG <em>redpilled<\/em> me&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The thing though, is that \u2013<i>pilled <\/i>derives from two idiomatic compounds and still has the form of an English past participle. There is no clear evidence of recutting, just a new reading for the\u00a0zero-derived <em>pill<\/em> plus the past participle marker \u2013<em>ed<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/on-the-not-exactly-libfixes\/\">It is thus much like other non-exactly-libfixes like \u2013<em>core<\/em> (&lt;\u00a0<em>hardcore<\/em>) and <em>\u2013gate<\/em> (&lt; <em>Watergate<\/em>)<\/a>, in my estimation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent asks whether \u2013pilled is a libfix. I note grillpilled (when you stop caring about politics and focus on cooking meat outdoors) and catpilled (when you get toxoplasmosis). While writing this, I was wondering whether anyone has declared themselves tennispilled; yes, someone has. The etymology of\u00a0-pilled seems clear enough. The phrase taking the {blue, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/curious-case-pilled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The curious case of -pilled&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-libfixes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}