Cunningly linguistic

Em ⎢ 25 ⎢ PhD student in theoretical and experimental linguistics | syntax my beloved | 🏳️‍🌈

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

Do you haff 👉🏻👈🏻 catto kitty pictures?

so many

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

officially created the latex template/repo for my thesis... big day

[real-language-facts]

linguists spent millons of days searching for the perfect pickup line.

yhey finally got it...

"hey girl. do we have Fuck or what"

[enkidusbi]

academia is just the wild oscillation between "they are going to find out i'm stupid and put me down like a dog" and "i never met a man who was smarter than me"

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

The fact that I know several of the authors whose papers you named for the funny title post. Insane to me. What a wild crossover. (Shocked)

genuinely jealous rn !!! more authors should have funny titles so that we can know them and witness wild crossovers !!

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

what's the silliest linguistics paper title you've come across?

Compiled a lil' list of my faves, enjoy !

Martin et al. (2020) - Why one can kill Rasputin twice in Mandarin

Wurmbrand (2017) - Stripping and topless complements

Reiss (2024) - Yes, we have NoBanana? Arguments against Richness of the Base

Meadows (2024) - Size matters: clause structure and locality constraints in Swahili relatives

Kokkonidis (2005) - Why glue a donkey to an f-structure when you can constrain it and bind it instead

Josefsson (2022) - Pancake inflection is agreement in non-specificity

Arregi & Hewett (2025) - Singular they and the syntax of townhouses

Mandelkern (2015) - I believe I can Phi

Bleotu (2012) - Why does IT always rain on me ? On weather verbs

Saba (2008) - Concerning Olga, the Beautiful Little Street Dancer (Adjectives as Higher-Order Polymorphic Functions)

[defectivegembrain]

I went to Escher Sentence Island and more people were there than I was

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

i went to garden path sentence island and some flowers

[ate-a-chili]

I went to zeugma island and completely insane

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

have you heard of random bisexual forests

i have not enlighten me i beg!

[fellator]

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

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

why indeed

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

crotch isn't motivational, got it

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

reveal the legumes kind sir

[real-language-facts]

i heard some reports that you were using language? kinda problematic. :/ do you have anything to refute these accusations.

awaaga

[stella-draws-things]

[real-language-facts]

one may think "language" is french or spinach for "the nguage". this is a folk etymology myth, it is actually more like mile -> mileage. "How much language are you getting out ofthose words"

[galileosballs]

I regret to inform everyone that this is actually not that far off the real etymology. The 'langue' part of language comes from the latin 'lingua', meaning 'tongue', and the '-age' suffix is something the word picked up in old french as a suffix of action (like how a 'pilgrimage' is 'that thing pilgrims do'). So really it's more like 'what that tongue do'

[unfavorableinstigation]

Well, that's upsetting.

[allthingslinguistic]

I'm a linguist and this is completely true.

Also the Proto Indo-European root for tongue is cursed and needs to be brought to your attention:

late 13c., langage "words, what is said, conversation, talk," from Old French langage "speech, words, oratory; a tribe, people, nation" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum, from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language" (from PIE root *dnghu- "tongue"). The -u- is an Anglo-French insertion (see gu-); it was not originally pronounced.

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

sup y'all, mind helping my bestie and taking a short quiz on expectations (vs. reality)? just do your favourite thing: judge, but this time with actual scientific benefits 😎

https://jatos.mindprobe.eu/publix/qv9XjTt1sje

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

pondering the orb is out, we computing the OOB