Comments | sariel_t: "Ingenious Trifling." Linguistics geeking out post.

sariel_t

"Ingenious Trifling." Linguistics geeking out post.

Feb 10, 2008 14:29

Ingenious Trifling

The e-mail generally looks like this:

Subject: Fabulous bit of historical knowledge ( Read more... )

linguistics, funnies

Comments 7

sweetconcord February 10 2008, 20:57:03 UTC

Yeah, that was awesome.

world_rim_walke February 11 2008, 00:19:57 UTC

Yay linguistics geekery! Thank you.

sariel_t February 11 2008, 00:20:27 UTC

Happy to oblige.

world_rim_walke February 11 2008, 00:26:21 UTC

How very obliging you are tonight. (^_^)

mplsindygirl February 11 2008, 15:57:09 UTC

lolz

cos February 11 2008, 19:32:50 UTC

Nice! I saw that email posted on some other people's LJs recently, skimmed it, discarded it as sounding totally bogus, and didn't look into it any further. Your post, though, is far more interesting than just debunking something I knew was fake.

P.S. Acronyms are pronounceable abbreviations. ASAP acts as an acronym when you say it as "aysap" but just an abbreviation when you say "ay ess ay pee". n.g. is not an acronym :)

sariel_t February 12 2008, 02:58:14 UTC

:) Thanks for the note!