#syntax

[prokopetz]

Taking a principled stand against past participles.

[ninjahaku21art]

What it sounds like ✨

These took forever my goodness, but it was worth it xD This is just part 1! Patreon will be getting the next parts soon, as usual!

But for now, enjoy!

[itsnothingofinterest]

I just realized. The Gameoverse villains are called Syntax. Like, the rules for how sentences work.

Warrick's ship is a comma.

[the-irreverend]

Sooooo not to be that one guy who theorizes that the most wholesome character is gonna turn evil, but I am actually convinced that this is foreshadowing that Gobbles is gonna double-cross Kit and Kaboodle.

Alright, just hear me out! What if his team's biggest asset, how he's such a great learner, actually later ends up working against the team when he learns the truth about what they're doing?

Remember in the last scene where Warrick tells Snappers that he and the Syntax are using the Float from destroyed worlds to change the rules of the Gameoverse? That he wants to upend the terrible status quo that every world suffers under and, in doing so, restore "all that we've lost"?

What do you think's gonna happen when Gobbles actually learns about what Warrick is doing and that he can offer him a way to restore all the people he cares about? And with that in mind, how will his view of Kit and Kaboodle change when he realizes that all they're doing is just PRESERVING A BROKEN SYSTEM (and that they've kept him in the dark about the Syntax's true intentions)?

So yeah, methinks we might get Gobbles betrayal/villain arc. ;D

[synticity]

the three linguistics papers to read about singular they (morphosyntax)

Bjorkman, B. M. (2017). Singular they and the syntactic representation of gender in English. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2(1). Open access link

Konnelly, L., & Cowper, E. (2020). Gender diversity and morphosyntax: An account of singular they. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 5(1). open access link

Conrod, K. (2022). Abolishing gender on D. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 67(3), 216-241. Open access link

in chronological order because these papers are all basically responding to each other; this papers focus on the (morpho)syntax and semantics of english singular 'they' referring to specific people (like they/them pronoun-users).

if you like posts like this, let me know! i'll give "three linguistics papers to read about (topic)" every once in a while based on interest

[wondrous-art]

I've been told I have a problem.

[cloudchomps]

Long time no see? It's Syntax!

[incognitopolls]

How many spaces were you taught to put after the end of a sentence?

I was taught to put 1 space, and I still do

I was taught to put 1 space, but now I put more

I was taught to put 2 spaces, but now I put 1

I was taught to put 2 spaces, and I still do

I was taught to put 2 spaces, but now I put 3 or more (?)

I was taught to put 3 spaces, but now I put 1

I was taught to put 3 spaces, but now I put 2

I was taught to put 3 spaces, and I still do

I was taught something else (4 or more spaces? None?)

I was never taught any specific rule for this

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