Firstly, hanaurimusume, I don't even know what to say to you. Okay, actually I do. Art, you are bad for my brain. STOP BEING SO AWESOME. AHAHAHAHAAAA! WTF BLOODY COOKING MAMA WHERE DO YOU FIND THESE THINGS ( Read more... )

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Fallacy is a name for a wargaming theory coined by Richard Hamblen in the September 1976 edition of Avalon Hill's The General Magazine, loosely based on historical records of battles between the British and the Sudanese Mahdi. The Fuzzy Wuzzy Fallacy states that a single soldier with 2× firepower or attack strength is not equal to ( Read more... )

I'm trying to write this goddamned paper and I keep getting distracted. I mean I love linguistics and all, but for serious, tenipuri is just so much shinier than "context-reduced and cognitively demanding school language" or whateverthehell that means. Fuck you, drama. You're sucking away time I could be using to decipher yet another pretentious ( Read more... )

( Wherein I spazz about my linguistic identity and bore you to death. AGAIN. But at least I don't get all emo over it. )

I don't know why, really, but this is just one of my BIG-ASS linguistic pet-peeves ( Read more... )

Do people not understand sarcasm anymore? I am sad. My feelings...they be hurt. Well, not really, but I can pretend, right? Anyway, I'm getting a little weirded out by the really pretentious people in my historical linguistics class. You know, the stuck-up ones who think that since they are "educated" and "open-minded" and "liberal thinkers" ( Read more... )