For some reason, my childhood suspension of disbelief had no problem with the fact that this ancient galaxy is full of humans, but was derailed by language. There’s no Asia OR Europe there, so where’d they get all the Indo-European roots?

I had never considered this before. GEEZ LUCAS, YOU REALLY MESSED UP THIS TIME.

He was explaining “The habitual ‘be’”, in case you were wondering. Because she’s not just trippin’ once, but is found to be trippin’ on a regular basis. Were it just a once-in-a-while thing, one might say “[She] trippin’.” Actually, learning the grammar rules, and watching my white/nerdy middle-aged professor explain them without sounding like a huge racist, was pretty rad.

1.) I’m using my cell phone as a wi-fi hotspot in my Contemporary Linguistics classroom. This is the first time I’ve had Internet in here all semester. It’s really handy!

2.) I was really worried that I had failed the mid-term for Contemporary Linguistics. I, uh, actually got a B. I’ll take it.

3.) I’m going to research the syntactic processes behind predictive text (this falls under computational linguistics) for my research project in this class.

“welp” is like when you say “well”, but with that bit of a cut-off at the end as you press your lips together.  i wish there was a better way to write that word, you’d know it if you heard it, it’s a VOICELESS BILABIAL PLOSIVE

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I attach the following, in which I talk to Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics fame via Twitter, and he changes the alt-text to include my input!

In conclusion, I’m a pretty rad dude, hoopy frood, etc.

Seriously, though, if you’re not following Dinosaur Comics, you’re missing out on an incredibly awesome corner of the Internet.

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Historical Lingustics. Woo!