#linguistposting

i love linguistics. we are just saying bullshit in here. today a guy in morphosyntax class said “it’s verby but in a noun shape” and that was viewed as an astute observation. i said that england was wearing scotland as a hat and it was (kinda) on-topic. we talked about how you can’t define a bird. none of us know what a word is. this is great

STOP TRYING TO MAKE LANGUAGE MAKE SENSE! language isn't meant to make sense, it's meant to communicate the dumbass thoughts you have at 3 am. any other model of the purpose of language is wrong.

sittin in my room headphones on blasting opeth classifying groups of phonemes by feature!!! livin the linguistics student life!!! yippeee

creates a phonetic transcription of your makeout session with unnerving accuracy

not going to get all the way into it but im SO pissed at my sociolinguistics prof right now i want to bitch slap that turkey looking guy into next week

if i ever get tested for autism again i should tell them that i wish they would put the pronunciation guides in the front of the lord of the rings instead of hiding them in an appendix in the back because when i first read the series i went through the whole thing mentally pronouncing elvish words with all soft Cs and then got really upset when i got to the appendices and realized i had been saying everything wrong in my head the whole time