Zimmermann Resort 2014
<3 Phoneme chart <3
Years ago there was this copypasta that went around all the forums and whatnot. It said, “Can you spot the gay person??” and then there was a block of emoticons that looked like little mens, and then it said, “You can’t, because we’re all the same!”
To this day I am convinced that it started as a really esoteric joke. The characters used were letters in the Korean alphabet that, when you put them together so that they make little mens, form the syllable “you.”
I was recently elected as the marketing director of my acting and stage combat troupe because I’ve been helping with graphic design and social media management since March, using skills I learned doing fandom shit on tumblr.
Which means I can put “Marketing Director,” “Freelance Graphic Designer,” and “Social Media Manager” on a resume if I ever need to do so.
All of this because I taught myself how to use Gimp so I could make cheesy fandom edits for my Sims fan blog.
I wouldn’t trust a monolingual linguist. That’s not to say I would doubt the validity of their work, but rather that I wouldn’t trust them in the same way that I wouldn’t trust someone who fills their bowl with milk before adding the cereal, or who puts the TV volume on odd numbers.
Linguistics, of course, is not the study of languages, but the scientific study of language, and so asking a linguist how many languages they speak is exactly as asinine as asking an astronomer how many planets they’ve been to. It just doesn’t work that way.
However, if we lived in a world where an astronomer could put an app on their phone and have an obnoxious green owl take them on a tour of any planet they want … how could you not?
okay, but what about volumes in increments of five?
Even numbers, multiples of 5, and multiples of 3 are all acceptable.
i usually find your takes to be at least somewhat right on @wodneswynn, but this one…let me start with this, tho: what do you mean monolingual here? like, are you really saying if a linguist is only *fluent* in one langauge, or are you saying if they have zero facility/familiarity at all with any other languages??
more broadly, tho: i think this one has an artificially narrow view of the field (or it has just completely not included/elided applied linguistics or linguistics applied). like, linguists whose area interest are conversation or discourse analysis, specifically looking at things like how power dynamics play out, they’re not necessarily something missing because they can only talk about it in japanese or brazilian or english…
Well, that’s why I opened this post by comparing it to non-rational preferences relating to numbers and food. I meant to convey that this is a personal reflection on how I myself relate to language and the study of language, based on a non-rational personal affinity. I’m sorry that that wasn’t more clear.
None of the gay bars in town are seedy enough. I want to do my drinking at a magical place with peanut shells on the floor and cardboard over the picture windows where I can swap fashion tips with the other queens and impress the butches with my encyclopedic knowledge of Johnny Cash lyrics.
I got angry and pontificated on main and now I’m hemorrhaging followers again.
You … you all chose of y’all’s own volition to hit that “follow” button on this blog where my blog icon is a picture of me shooting an AR-15 out of the back of a pickup truck in my underpants overlaid with an asexual pride banner and a hammer and sickle.
I don’t know what else in the sam hell you were expecting to find here.
Like, nothing about this operation is the least bit subtle. What you see is what you get.
DM: “The orc captain fires his bow, and…that’s a hit. And he rushes, and…hit. And, bonus move, and…oh jeez that’s a *big* hit. I’m sorry, man.”
Player, sadly pulling out a fresh character sheet: “Eh, it’s alright. I guess in the next act y'all are gonna meet Boromir’s brother Faramir.”
I just lost six followers
when i used to work at coldstone i had a customer ask if we had a military discount and i told her it was just a straight dollar off any order and she had the audacity to tell me “that’s not very patriotic” like? huh??? you can pay the same amount for your ice cream that everyone else does or you can Semper Find your way to the damn exit