The Mysterious Masked Linguist

official linguistics post

‘beyond the scope of this paper’ is a dear friend to me. I Am Not Fucking Talking About That

"Look I can stay on track or this paper can be three times as long, your choice."

nice outfit LOSER. 1443 called but in a dialect of Early Modern English that hadn't experienced the Great Vowel Shift yet so i don't know what it said

"'Effect' is a noun, and 'affect' is a verb," reprimanded the schoolteacher. The students merely looked on with dull affect, bearing no genuine desire to effect change in their own vocabularies.

this fetish stuff is getting out of hand what the fuck is word play

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

Germans completely outdid the english language by calling tv a farseer. They got their orcish shamans to name that shit

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

ditto cockney accents being used to denote stupid and evil. why are you acting like someone who talks like a member of the working class is irredeemable and an idiot.

There was a girl I knew back Up North, one of my dad's philosophy students. Brilliant lass, sharp as a tack, incredibly original thinker. But as soon as she opened her mouth at a conference everyone immediately assumed she was thick and started full on 'splaining to her, and my dad and I are pretty sure that's because she had an incredibly heavy rural Lancashire accent.

It’s fun to use contractions inappropriately, but it’s hard to explain why that’s

thats a common interest we've

Yeah, but people get annoyed by it, like when you throw soda cans in the trash can’t the recycle bin