So the problem with being in class with the cartoonists means that you get the terrible, terrible in-jokes:
Language Barrier
... thanks Rowan
(Tuesday, in morphology, our professor summarized how Noam Chomsky tried to make morphology into a pseudo-syntax, and then talked about how it would require affix-hopping, or rather a distinct lack thereof, to get it to work right, since morphemes occur in particular orders in words.)