darmok? and jalad? at tanagra?

MA student of linguistics (ger/eng)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

short but sweet

[gigglepuffpixie]

[donutquestion]

which of these syntax terms sounds the kinkiest?

raising and control

subjacency

clefting

bald/nuance/better one in my tags

Remaining time: 2 days 20 hours

[hotvampireadjacent]

[official-lauchzwiebel]

mir ist grade schwuppdiwupp wieder eingefallen. banger ausdruck, das deutsche hat wieder mal abgeliefert

[official-lauchzwiebel]

und dann haben wir einfach noch ruckizucki, zickizacki, flottigalotti, holterdipolter, ratzfatz und rubbel die katz. interjektionen ich küsse euch mit zunge

[bobdylanyaoi]

the singular of pasta is pastum

[miklep]

as a blogwarming post, here's my favorite figure i ever stumbled across in a linguistics paper:

it's the only one in the whole paper and its on page 2, so i choose to believe this was malicious compliance to some review asking for diagrams

[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

[depsidase]

[nathanielthecurious]

academic writing these days is always like “be/longing” “re-membering” “(under)standing”

[662607015]

STEM academic writing is like "we present the results of the ACRONYM project (A ContRived mnemOnic is NecessarY Material)"

[teaboot]

I feel like pirating media that isn’t sold or offered anywhere legally anymore shouldn’t be called piracy. Girl thats archaeology

[markovchaingang]

in academia. straight up "winging it". and by "it", haha, well. lets justr say. My theasits

[ipa-tournament]

Sexiest IPA Symbol: Pulmonic Consonants

Round 5 match 1: [ɸ] v [β] v [ɬ]

Which IPA symbol is sexier?

[ɸ]

[β]

[ɬ]

Voting ended onJun 14

[ɸ]

Voiceless bilabial fricative

[β]

Voiced bilabial fricative

[ɬ]

Voiceless Alveolar Lateral Fricative

To hear what these sound like, you can use an interactive IPA chart

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[sludgebitch]

"🥪" is shorthand for "🍞🧀🍅🥬🍞"

[succumbing-song]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[grecoromanyaoi]

citationless behavior

[grecoromanyaoi]

sourceless behavior

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

top five ways to conclude your thesis

so yeah

and I stand by that

thanks for reading

you get it now right

call me with questions I really want to talk about this more please please please