March 2012
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lastever-lonegunman:
i didn’t read the terms and conditions what if i just sold my soul to david karp
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Linguistics Micro Lesson: Prescriptive Grammar vs....
vowelsme:
In linguistics we often focus on descriptive grammar. This means that we describe how language is actually used by people when speaking or writing. Think of it as someone listening to people speak at a cafe and taking notes on how they say things.
This contrasts with prescriptive grammar that states how a language “should” be spoken or written. This is what most of us think of when we...
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“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. (via aacissej)
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Sì ma oggi comunque è San Patrizio
brightandglittering:
quindi io girerò vestita di verde, con i miei orecchini a forma di trifoglio, e berrò tanta Guinness
ecco
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Di gente che constata
- Ho fermato Balotelli e la Fico prima
- Ma va’?
- Sì… BRUTTA LEI
- Che cosa vorresti insinuare?
- Io non insinuo, constato
- Seh
- Ma tu sei più bella amore mio
- Che commerciale
- E senza dubbio hai una cosa che lei non ha
- Immagino non sia il culo scultoreo
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random person: oh ma gawd guys, lok at dat man, dat shit crazy
me: the art of grammar, young padawan, is a diffcult and long road. You must be devoted. For it is your destiny.
linguistics: omg did they just monophthongize the nucleus of that first person possessive pronoun and shift their voiced interdental fricative to an alveolar stop reflecting it in the orthography and then delete the copula of an adjectival predicate that's so awesome desu~
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Tim Burton new movie?
myinsanebrain:
Let me guess:
Johnny Depp
Helena Bonham Carter
Music by Danny Elfman
Gothic atmosphere.
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Linguistics Micro Lesson: Auto-antonyms
vowelsme:
Auto-antonyms (also called autantonyms; there are a couple other names for them, too) are two words that are spelled the same but actually have opposite meanings.
A few examples:
“To cleave” = “to cling” or “to split”
“To weather” = “to endure” (as in a storm) or “to erode” (as in a rock)
“To buckle” = “to fasten” or “to bend then break”
“To sanction” = “to permit” or “to punish”
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we're watching the Chamber of Secrets, and my... →
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“Linguists are people who never got over the fact that they could talk”
– (via elcondelucanor)
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