I just realized…

glottalplosive:

• “Nasal” begins with a nasal consonant.
• “Fricative” begins with a fricative consonant.
• “Sibilant” begins with a sibilant consonant.
• “Plosive” begins with a plosive consonant.
• “Lateral” begins with a lateral consonant.

Anyone else ever find the urge to gloss Wikipedia articles?

…

no?

>_> yeah, me neither.

I’m not a pro-linguist so I won’t.

lingllama:

[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: “Why does everyone ask how many languages I speak?” Bottom text: “Okay, five, but still”]

lingllama:

Clitics

[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: “ Clitics ” Bottom text: “ Not as dirty as you think ”]

lingllama:

[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: “Split Infintives ” Bottom text: “It’s hard to really understand the problem”]

Edit: How else would we be able to boldly go where no man has gone before?

lingllama:

[Picture: Background: Black. Foreground: 6 pictures in 2 rows: Hands with “job” and “less” written on them, a book called “The History of the English Language”, a pile of foreign language dictionaries, a chalkboard with simple words in Spanish written on it, a picture of Noam Chomsky, and a spectrogram. Top text: “[Linguistics majors]” Bottom text: “[What my family thinks I do, what my friends think I do, what society thinks I do, what hard science majors think I do, what I think I do, and what I actually do]”]

Well, not really getting into phonetic analysis yet, but, yeaaap.

vowelsme:

“Do you long for a world where linguistics is a popular sport? Here is a chart of hand signals used by syntax referees in that better world.”

[Cascadilla Press via Book of Joe]

lingllama:

[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: “ [Linguist’s version of “Apples and Bananas”] ” Bottom text: “ [Has 32 verses] ”]

LINGLLAMA YOU ARE FAMOUS! Had a semantics lecture today and the second slide was a lingllama meme! I was giggling like a silly bean. But too scared to take a picture. But it was eeeepiiiiccccc. I couldn’t remember which exact meme it was though.

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [Other students in linguistics class still using the term “proper English” for standard English] ” Bottom text: “ [So annoyed] ”]

Luckily not fellow linguists, but, pretty much. This goes for any language, if that wasn’t obvious.

magebird:

strawberrypookmoo:

spasmboy:

um

ITS A WUG. WUGS DONT LIVE IN WUGHOUSES OR WUGGERIES. THEY LIVE IN PONYTAILS.

THERE YOU ARE, WUG

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THAT PONYTAIL THAT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT WHERE YOU BELONG

YOUNG CHILDREN KNOW WHERE WUGS LIVE WHY DON’T YOU

WUG WHAT ARE YOU DOING, WHAT’S GOING ON, WHAT’S HAPPENING, GO FIND YOUR FRIEND. •__• icantstoplooking

(Source: fleurescentlights)

fyeahlinguisticsape:

“Admit it.  You have listened to Disney songs in at least six languages.”

+ other musicals such as RENT.

The regrets I have:  ZERO.

So yeah, I just got a first!

emmahelena:

Hi Emma! [sorry to have “found you” on Tumblr, I don’t know if there is proper etiquette for this, but] CONGRATS ON YOUR FIRST!!! I got a 2.2 because I failed miserably at the second assignment but I don’t care it’s still a pass wheeeeeeeee :D :D

ps that gif is adorable ;o

snailsy:

Verbing weirds language.

favorite Calvin and Hobbes.

scottdb:

kmccafferty:

jeremymakesmusicnow:

What I did today

wuh oh. I smell a google translate job.

Teaghlaigh chéad (fada-less laptop over here) = “first families.” or “first households” I.E.: “the first families/households to come to such-and-such place..”

Unless, of course, that’s what the person wanted, but I have a funny feeling they were going for “family first”

When NOT to use Google Translate:

Badum tish a VSO language defies your SVO brain logic.

arwenthemuse:

Early Modern English (after Standardization began)

They have therefore been most rigorous in putting in execution, the only Remedy, that can be found for this Extravagance, and that has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style; to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver’d so many things, almost in an equal number of words.
Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal-Society of London (1667).

(very) Early Modern English

The English speach doth still encroche vpon it [Cornish], and hath driuen the same into the vttermost skirts of the shire. Most of the Inhabitants can no word of Cornish; but very few are ignorant of the English. 
Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall (1602)

Middle English

With hym ther was a Plowman, was his broother,
That hadde ylad of donge ful many a foother.
A trewe swynkere and a good was he,
Lyvynge in pees and parfit charitee.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Old English

Hwæt! We Gardena         in geardagum, 
þeodcyninga,         þrym gefrunon, 
hu ða æþelingas         ellen fremedon. 
Oft Scyld Scefing         sceaþena þreatum, 
monegum mægþum,         meodosetla ofteah, 
egsode eorlas.
Beowulf

Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu *____*

I don’t know when it started but now I cannot look at things such as the above and feel immense overwhelming feelings in my heart and mind. I want to have a sweet sweet love affair with old languages, especially Germanic ones. JUST LOOK AT THEM.

OHGOSH I AM REALLY FANGIRLING OVER WORDS WHAT IS MY LIFE.