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guy currently hurtling toward a migraine at a rate that would impress most astrophysicists: i wonder wgat is happening in my beautiful telephone

we have invented phonetics 2. no idea what it studies but it strikes fear in the hearts of all

I think the fun part about fake Jewish names is that there all so real. Like it’s impossible to come up with a Jewish character who also isn’t just literally a real person from Teaneck who I’m probably related to

You're safer using names like David Levy and Sarah Cohen. Then you can legitimately say that they're not based on real people, because everyone knows at least five people with those names.

Also fake synagogues are easy to do as well : Beth Shalom, Beth El, Beth Israel. You can’t say it was based on a specific congregation because like those names make up like 90% of synagogues.

Those would be good for Conservative, but I'd go with something like Torat Shalom for Orthodox.

If I don't remember a man's name at shul my first guess is David. I'm right about half the time.

wrote an escape room puzzle for my school's hillel once based around fake names. accidentally genarated the name of a guy who did, in fact, attend my school. first and last. not even one of the common ones!

nativist theory of language development was never meant to apply to humans. it actually comes from a gnome named chompsky who studied elven language development, but unfortunately during the human assistance program, someone misunderstood

we must get together and create some sort of unsolved mathematical problem but for language

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon

update: there IS a language called Arabic 4. however it is a 13 year old's language contest entry

"thing" is the gerund of "the"

sometimes ling homework feels very silly like i'm doing puzzles. im doing logic puzzles for homework

while nouns do carry a risk of cases, PLEASE do not dismiss a verb bite. depending on species, they can carry inflection (such as conjugation, as anon mentioned) or worse: derivation.

guys this is really no joke in some places verbs can account for literally 100% of all derivation cases

THEY MAKE OTHER FLAVORS?!??!