Cunningly linguistic

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

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

Do you haff 👉🏻👈🏻 catto kitty pictures?

so many

[est-pulcher]

I have a love/hate relationship with research because why did I go in with one question and leave with six?

[sciencecrafter]

cats will either meow with no vowels <mrrp> /mr̩ːp̚/ or will manage to meow their way around the entire ipa vowel chart <mieau> /mieɛæaäɑɔouʉy/

[neeksthecryptid]

i find it so funny how the people who study languages are always the first to be like "language is fake grammar isnt real"

[markovchaingang]

normalized data implies the existence of problematized data

[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