Linguist Llama

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[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “Do not touch morpheme with bare hands” Bottom text: “Risk of inflection”]

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Can vowels come too?

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “Ain't no party like a fricative party” Bottom text: “'Cuz a fricative party don't stop”]

submitter: My fiance (a non-linguist) came up with this joke in a dream! I was amazed.

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If you like Linguistics and twitter accounts like YA BOY BILL NYE, you might be interested in the new parody twitter account, @YABOYCHOMSKY.

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You'd [bɛɾɚ]!

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “Intervocalic /t/?” Bottom text: “I'd tap that”]

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[ju tɹa͡ɪːd]

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “I tried to depalatalize my consonants” Bottom text: “but it was tyoo hard”]

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Nobody's Perfect

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “Tense? Moody? Irregular?” Bottom text: “You must be a verb”]

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It has one of those trendy names -- it's just called "X".

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “ Three syntacticians ” Bottom text: “ Walk into A’ ”]

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Shakespearean Llama

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “To be, or not to be” Bottom text: “That's a copular and its negation”]

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I had fun with my Halloween costume this year.

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Thoughts on YouTube and how the online linguistics community could utilize it.

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Regarding employment: you might send people with questions about finding work to the Linguist List's Jobs section to check out current listings and requirements. It looks like computational linguistics is in high demand right now. I would suggest not to chase a job in academia; the job market in academia is horrible right now, with full-time positions being replaced with crummy adjunct gigs.

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Hi, I think I'm interested in studying Linguistics at university for reasons I'm too tired to go into - it is genuinely a very interesting field which I am passionate about - and I was wondering how realistic such an option is. I have no clue what I want to do with a degree in Linguistics: career-wise. I've always wanted to go into academic research, namely sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and metalinguistics. Again, I don't now how realistic such an idea is. Can you give me any advice/experience?

I certainly cannot give you personal experience, but I will advise you to explore this option! Studying Linguistics at university is fantastic and most certainly realistic, especially if you're passionate about it.

Before considering careers, definitely check out your college choices beforehand for good Linguistics departments. The benefit of knowing what you want to study is that you can choose a school that caters to that particular interest.

After that, it's really difficult to give advice because it's hard to pin Linguistics (or really, even sub-fields) to just a few major careers. Here are two posts from this blog that will, hopefully, help you discover some options: one, two

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[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “Allomorphs” Bottom text: “There can be only one”] 

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This is a bit of a special post, perhaps one that is self-serving and overly specific, but I'm really excited about finally meeting these people in person next week!

If anyone else at NYU this year is interested, LOLS has a Welcome Week event scheduled for Tuesday, Aug 28, 2pm at 10 Washington Place. Come meet me and a couple of truly fantastic people! ...and grab some more free food because you know you want it.

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Is she her own grandma?

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “Adjunct: Daughter of X-bar, Sister to X-bar” Bottom text: “Incestuous syntax?”]

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I think this one is Austronesian!

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “ Finds new interesting word” Bottom text: “To the etymobile!”]

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Thanks, guys! This really means a lot.

I'm sorry I haven't been creating many of my own memes lately. I'm still checking the Quickmeme page for new ones occasionally, but everything moves faster if you submit them yourselves!