On Theta Roles
- Professor: When in doubt, it's probably a theme.
- Girl in Back: Or an adverb!
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A Whole Nother Blog
Linguist who only speaks English. Barely that.
Documenting my undergrad years. Also, I need an outlet for all the quirky information that I acquire.
~ Tuesday, March 20 ~
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~ Wednesday, March 7 ~
I really, really hate this. Because wether it’s about one social issue or another, the WHOLE PURPOSE to spread awareness. It’s not trendy, it’s not to look “cool,” it’s to open peoples eyes and get the information out there. Jesus I hate Tumblr sometimes.
Yeah, duh. I wish it only took one 30 minute video to create social activists. Isn’t that the point of the video? I don’t get this meme at all.
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~ Tuesday, March 6 ~
Things I’ve Meant to Say
Its been a while since I’ve posted anything on tumblr. I’ve started to feel like everything I want to say, has already been said, or is too obvious, like its already part of some linguist zeitgeist.
Here are some topics I meant to cover at some point:
.. Does your language shape how you think? (Duh.) - A response to the NY Times article.
.. American faux polyglot(tism)? — Pretending to be multilingual, on the Internet and elsewhere.
.. Why teaching ESL is great experience, even if you don’t want to teach later.
.. Linguistics and Algebra.. Go together like a horse and carriage? ( I admit I need to work on this title)
I think I may get to these at some point, but something I’ve really been curious about is translation and localization, without being bilingual, something that’s not nearly covered enough in my university.
As much as I love language research, I don’t think it’s fair to base an entire curriculum around it especially since there are a lot more localization positions than research positions.
~ Saturday, February 11 ~
The Garden Path
- Me: That show totally sucks. It so obviously targets the college..man.. group.. thing.
- Bf: College males? I thought you were supposed to be a linguist.
- Me: I changed what I was about to say half way through. Actually this sort of phenomena kinda proves that we process one word at a time. These are also proved by garden path sentences, in which you begin interpreting the sentence one, but the true meaning is resolved at the end.
- Bf: Ok, what kind of sentence is 'shut the hell up'?
- Me: I think it's just a declarative sentence..
- Bf: Well I'm declaring you to shut the hell up.
- Me: Wow.
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~ Wednesday, February 8 ~
So you study.. like.. language?
What people say to Linguistics Majors (by iawachie) and How I respond
- I write dictionaries.
- I study the science of language. Now see, science is just a term for a method..
- No I only speak English..
- No, that’s not a word in Arabic.
- Please stop coughing all over me.
- Yes, there are only 40 Linguistic majors in my University.
- Yes, when I’m bored, I do transcribe lectures. But that’s if I’m REALLY BORED. And the professor has a HEAVY ACCENT.
- I don’t want to study Mandarin.
- Do I like grammar? Forget everything you know about grammar and let’s have a talk..
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~ Tuesday, February 7 ~
“ Is it ironic that I don’t know the definition of irony? I don’t know?!!
Tags:
Paronomasia
irony
ironic
language
english
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~ Saturday, February 4 ~
Brackets
What’s wrong with people? Bracketing sentences makes life so much easier???
I’d much rather learn to bracket and use this for trees that tediously use MSPaint.
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~ Thursday, February 2 ~
Linguist Issues:
Lɪŋgوɪsت ɪشus.
فəkɪŋg dɪفəɹاnت Aلfabeتs.
سiɹiəسly, سometɑɪمs ɑɪ جəst staɹت ɹɑɪتɪŋg بɑckwəɹdز.
Transliteration:
Linguist Issues.
Fucking different alphabets.
Seriously, sometimes I just start writing backwards.
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~ Wednesday, February 1 ~
[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
Tags:
language
linguistics
I thought this might be a fun game to play on Tumblr. NAME THAT ACCENT.This is the first time I’m doing this, so I started out with an easy one for you guys.
So, what is this speaker’s native language?
Edit: It was Italian, interesting answers though? Maybe it’s not so easy after all? Hmm..
(Source: gmu.edu)
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Took an extra long lunch and did some shopping, and reading. Voila, mes nouvelles robes (Excuse my French, literally, I have no idea if Google Translate spit out something grammatically correct)! Of course this meant skipping Psycholinguistics, but don’t be mad at me followers. We were probably just going to go over noun phrases again <_<.
