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I have never felt more under prepared going into an academic year. Wish me luck guys; I’m going to need it.

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Practising IPA like

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How to pronounce Celtic words and names

Step 1: Read the word. Step 2: Wrong.

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Professor: This semester we’ll be covering Morphology. Can anyone here tell me what that is?

Student A: The study of word formation!

Student B: The relationship of words to others in the same language!

Me: *disappointedly placing my Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers lunchbox under my desk* ᶜᵒⁿᵗᵉˣᵗ

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There’s probably a paper to be written on the near-universal agreement that the past tense of “yeet” is “yote”. Like, clearly there’s some implicit rule of the English language that makes this seem obvious to folks, but what rule?

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Me: The purpose of language is communication. As long as the other person can be understood, it doesn't matter if their grammar isn't perfect. There is no sense in prescriptivism

Someone: Could of

Me: *Twitches*

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The proper plural of “Spider-Man” is:

a. Spider-Mans

b. Spider-Men

c. Spiders-Men

d. Spider-Mani

e. None of the above

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When exam time starts

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The Sentences Computers Can’t Understand, But Humans Can 

It’s the final video in this round of Language Files, that I collaborated on with Tom Scott and Molly Ruhl, and it’s about a kind of sentence known as the Winograd Schema. 

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german linguistics professor: what’s the dative plural ending of masculine words? 

a whole room full of german native speakers: 

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Shock and disgust today when I found out Bloomfield claims, in chapter 14 of Language, that hammer and spider are composed of bound roots ham- and spid- plus suffix -er. Like, wtf does he think ham- and spid- mean? What does he think -er is doing? That they’re agent nouns or something? For real??

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A group of very small teenagers fighting crimes against word formation

mighty morpheme power rangers™️

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