OMG LOOK I FOUND A JEWEL

[das_vika]

A bit late to the party, but in case there are people who HAVEN'T watched this awesome video yet, HERE IT IS:

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I found it on LanguageLog.

(It's a video with linguistics singing "We are the world, linguistic version", and it's hilariously awesome. WATCH IT!)

Comments

[folikon]

I love linguistics, and I love this song. I will learn the lyrics and sing this all day, every day. Y E S.

[das_vika]

IT IS SO AWESOME I LOVE IT AND WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO WATCH IT!!!!!

Why don't you just study linguistics? English linguistics? Give it a try?

Ah, oh, btw, there was a HUGE AND UGLY THING in the middle of the book fair court. It was so huge and ugly and had CARS in it and some totally-not-book-related 'art' kind of stuff that consisted of TWITTER POSTS and I just kinda stared at cosplayers treating it as some kind of idk photo shoot location or something. I wanted to cry a bit. T_T

[folikon]

YEEES, EVERYBODY SHOULD WATCH COOL VIDEOS WITH PEOPLE AWKWARDLY SINGING. I'M ALL FOR IT.

I prooobably will, Linguistics combined with English studies sounds interesting to me. Starting next October, that is, because I kinda like making a bit of money, if only for a while.

Cosplayers will treat everything as a photo shoot location. Trust me. But ugh, what the hell does Twitter have to do with art or books or cars or ... anything at all...

[das_vika]

=DDDDDDDDDDD Linguistics is so nice! *0*/))) you'll have to study a lot of special vocab and definitions at the beginning, but the further you get, the more interesting it becomes! =DDD

The twitter-art was... it was essentially long lines of twitter posts with certain keywords that were printed out by special printers hung below the ceiling, so you had a huge mass of PAPER both on the floor and hanging from the ceiling, which was interesting to look at but... you know... waste of paper? idk. And cosplayers using it as a bath. idk. o.o

That whole building was weird. :S

[folikon]

If I enjoy it, I have no trouble learning something new! It's just that I'm usually not motivated enough, so I forget everything within minutes. 'orz
Kinda related, or not, but I guess you're the best person to ask; I really want to read some classic literature (or rather, I want to want), but I don't know what exactly because there are 7r84578 things, and neither my time nor my money is unlimited. I only have Faust II and Hamlet so far (and some more by Shakespeare and Wilde once I actually order from Thalia.de) but hgdjashf; there are just too many things. So, anything you'd recommend...? This has nothing to do with No. 6, and it's not like I want to read a lot because of Nezumi. Nope.

... What. That just sounds really strange (and definitely like a waste of paper). I mean, I could get printing book quotes, but Twitter posts...? Weird.

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