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Snufkin in some clothes

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Finarfin for Valinorean Vogue.

This just wouldn't get outta my head until I drew it so here he is. In sheer silky evening wear like a pampered king.

Couldn't forget the pearls and jasmine threaded into his hair...

I feel like Finarfin is the type of elf to indulge in these types of clothes. Just for the sake of comfort.

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My immediate reaction was to say that yesterday the man SPEW

What is a ‘wug’?

If you’ve been to linguist tumblr (lingblr), you might have stumbled upon this picture of a funny little bird or read the word ‘wug’ somewhere. But what exactly is a ‘wug’ and where does this come from?

The ‘wug’ is an imaginary creature designed for the so-called ‘wug test’ by Jean Berko Gleason. Here’s an illustration from her test:

“Gleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge children’s acquisition of morphological rules‍—‌for example, the “default” rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/ or /ɨz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g., hat–hats, eye–eyes, witch–witches. A child is shown simple pictures of a fanciful creature or activity, with a nonsense name, and prompted to complete a statement about it:

This is a WUG. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ________.

Each “target” word was a made-up (but plausible-sounding) pseudoword, so that the child cannot have heard it before. A child who knows that the plural of witch is witches may have heard and memorized that pair, but a child responding that the plural of wug (which the child presumably has never heard) is wugs (/wʌgz/, using the /z/ allomorph since “wug” ends in a voiced consonant) has apparently inferred (perhaps unconsciously) the basic rule for forming plurals.

The Wug Test also includes questions involving verb conjugations, possessives, and other common derivational morphemes such as the agentive -er (e.g. “A man who ‘zibs’ is a ________?”), and requested explanations of common compound words e.g. “Why is a birthday called a birthday?“ Other items included:

This is a dog with QUIRKS on him. He is all covered in QUIRKS. What kind of a dog is he? He is a ________ dog.

This is a man who knows how to SPOW. He is SPOWING. He did the same thing yesterday. What did he do yesterday? Yesterday he ________.

(The expected answers were QUIRKY and SPOWED.)

Gleason’s major finding was that even very young children are able to connect suitable endings‍—‌to produce plurals, past tenses, possessives, and other forms‍—‌to nonsense words they have never heard before, implying that they have internalized systematic aspects of the linguistic system which no one has necessarily tried to teach them. However, she also identified an earlier stage at which children can produce such forms for real words, but not yet for nonsense words‍—‌implying that children start by memorizing singular–plural pairs they hear spoken by others, then eventually extract rules and patterns from these examples which they apply to novel words.

The Wug Test was the first experimental proof that young children have extracted generalizable rules from the language around them, rather than simply memorizing words that they have heard, and it was almost immediately adapted for children speaking languages other than English, to bilingual children, and to children (and adults) with various impairments or from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Its conclusions are viewed as essential to the understanding of when and how children reach major language milestones, and its variations and progeny remain in use worldwide for studies on language acquisition. It is "almost universal” for textbooks in psycholinguistics and language acquisition to include assignments calling for the student to carry out a practical variation of the Wug Test paradigm. The ubiquity of discussion of the wug test has led to the wug being used as a mascot of sorts for linguists and linguistics students.”

Here are some more illustrations from the original wug test:

Sources: 

Wikipedia, All Things Linguistic

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She is wonderful to me 🐎

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Maedhros did deeds of surpassing valour, and the Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned like a white fire within, and he was as one that returns from the dead. Thus the great fortress upon the Hill of Himring could not be taken, and many of the most valiant that remained, both of the people of Dorthonion and of the east marches, rallied there to Maedhros; and for a while he closed once more the Pass of Aglon, so that the Orcs could not enter Beleriand by that road.

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Ink, Japanese watercolors, home made gold watercolor

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Ugh my stupid creepy cousin sucks so bad I need to [remembers that kinslaying jokes trivialise the ever present and crushing doom that we all must live under] build the greatest secret tunnel that this hidden city has ever seen

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ant grooming herself on my wrist, set to chopins nocturne in c-sharp minor b.49

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every single day its fucked beyond belief that metroid fusion said "hey the federation has biomechanical creatures here for military purposes, JUST LIKE the space pirates with metroids in 1+3. they preserved ridley, who samus has a personal history of being enemies with. they care more about preserving x than samus' safety. we are setting something up here very obviously." and then the concept for dread was "hey there are federation robots attacking samus isnt that weird" and then th

and then the plot was "it was a evil chozo"

"thats the end of her plotline <3"

"that other stuff wont be examined <3"

"get hype for prime 4 everyone <3"

goddamn man

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Yigg

Xenomorph x Alebrije.

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Creator: Jerac

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And the people loved their beautiful queen. Their Mother Om.

This one just kind of became Mottom of its own volition? Just as well, I fucking love her. Maybe I should just make my way through all the Demiurges.

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Makuta Fish 57 pcs/pzs

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Holy shit it's finally happening

Attention people who were really weird in 2009

The Fall is coming to streaming (mubi or something) on September 27th

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god the rhyme scheme of Eärendil was a mariner is so fucking sexy

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Unrealistic

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Bionicle MOC: STRIDENT

Gives me major harpy vibes.

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Creator: LordObliviontheGreat