There was an old spotting ('05) on Language Log that may have been recorded here, but if so was lost with everything else: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/002621.html
Great little post, and the sentence in question was probably not even an accident. Presented here in its entirety:
THE TRENT REZNOR PRIZE FOR TRICKY EMBEDDING
Matthew Hutson, noting my interest in embedding, has observed by email that Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is responsible for "the most tricky and yet correct and clear sentence by a rockstar in an interview that I have ever seen":
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie."
Matthew suggests that Reznor deserves extra points because his sentence is "finished with a flourish of 'like.'" It surely is, even if Reznor seems to be a bit confused about where footnotes go, and so I hereby inaugurate the Trent Reznor Prize for Tricky Embedding, to be awarded intermittently.
Today's LL mentions that old post (which is the only reason I remember it): http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3724
Originally Posted by oldschool
Can't wait for it.
