"Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists, anthropologists, and neurologists, along with whatever blood can be got out of grammarians." -Russ Rymer

It shouldn't take me 5 minutes to type

[khlɔustIþ] and [çɔulnY]
klósetti∂ & hjólinu
(the toilet) (the wheel/the bike)

:(

I don't even know if the characters will show up on LJ correctly either! Linguistics is hard to type.

Next and final paper of undergraduate career: Icelandic prosody. This is basically what I am doing except not really:


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One thing to note about the English language is that you can add suffixes upon suffixes and even though you may not have a true English word at the end, it still would be grammatically correct ( Read more... )

I left the house at a dazzling 8:12am this morning. I caught the 49U, read Hume on the way down, and listened to my iPod. Then, I popped into Pearse 166 to hand in my health care provider slip.

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