#Linguistic Professor

[jeshaisabookworm]

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I saw the show’s trailer in YouTube. Told myself I’d check it out then totally forgot about it until I scrawled through an ad for it. I had just finished binging 6 episodes of Wolf Pack so I decided why not? And now here I am on episode 2 of True Lies a brand new show that is a reboot the 1994 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (his last name is so hard to spell. (more…) “”

[allthingslinguistic]

please i need you to watch this deadpan german linguistics professor making an incredibly catchy nerd pop song and dancing it's been stuck in my head all day

[jokingluna]

Another Alexa joke.

[tessalation]

Going to do my semantics homework in my college linguistics class and —

[shiny-airplane]

ALL TCW BIRTHDAY ARTS ARE COMPLETE!!(⁠☆⁠▽⁠☆⁠)

[l1lavender]

Are there any characters that you headcanon as lesbians?

I'm conducting a study on characters that are seen as lesbian and whether they have any linguistic similarities (i.e. the way they speak, communicate, body language etc). What examples do you have of characters that you have always seen as lesbians? Definitely Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter and Mrs Hardbroom from The Worst Witch for me, what about you?

[dramatic-dolphin]

there's two kinds of university professors and they are "i take attendance every class, if you're sick you need to tell me a day before, you can only miss three classes per semester" and "hey i noticed you haven't been to class at all in the past two months, are you handling the coursework okay? feel free to ask me if you have any questions!"

[transmechanicus]

Seething with contempt at a girl in my class who was giving a presentation on a paper and literally refused to refer to like half the compounds by their scientific name. For example, one protein product mentioned frequently in the paper was kawaguchipeptins. Not brain breaking complicated to pronounce, and is named for the person who classified that grouping of peptides. The two hit combo of racism and indirect denial of recognition for scientific achievement makes me want to shake her until coins come out.

[tower-of-hana]

Linguist tip

If you want to create a gloss but don't want to spend hours aligning it make a table, put the elements of your gloss in it and then turn the table borders white.

[rainbowresurrection]

Still Thinking.

In TOS there was a lot of promise on fleshing out the Vulcan culture. You get phrases in Vulcan before you ever get any phrases in Klingon. Which makes it interesting that moving forward, you learn much more about the Klingon language.

As a language lover I'd be interested to know what the body of the Vulcan language would have looked like, had it been more officially explored. You know it would be filled with dichotomy, due to the ancient and ritualistic roots of the language versus the need for utmost logic, which would influence both grammatical structure and the writing system(s).

From what I've seen, the writing leans far more on the "ancient tradition" end of things. It's beautiful, yet it is lacking in terms of practicality.

I like to imagine that they would have multiple modes of writing- the loopy cursive writing for religious and cultural / ceremonial practices, and maybe a more standardized and phonetic script for daily use (likely to also be vertical and cursive, but can be written horizontally as well). Also I'm not sure how phonetic it is to begin with so I'm just making shit up here.

Well I know one thing for sure, they have at least 2 scripts, based on the writing seen on Spock's robes vs other scenarios (perhaps Old Vulcan or Ceremonial Vulcan).

Another fun thing I like to imagine is that perhaps Vulcan follows a root based system like Hebrew or Arabic. For example in the male names, the most common denominator is S----K or S--R--K.

SpocK, SaReK, SuRaK

Women, it is the letter T.

T'Pring, T'Pau

Both genders use the consonant P.

sPock, t'Pring

So, those consonants could be based on a certain shared notion, whereas the vowels change the nuance of the translation.

Arabic (Modern Standard) example, paying attention to the consonants:

KeTeBe = writing

KiTaaB = book

MeKTaB = desk

MeKTaBe = library

(sorry for the weak transliterations, it makes more sense looking at it in Arabic, you'll see the commonality in the consonants):

كتب

كتاب

مكتب

مكتبة

[brain-depositary]

Did anyone ever figure out where Viktor’s accent is supposed to come from?

New theory is it’s not from anywhere, he just has foreign accent syndrome to add to his diagnosis of Having Every Disease.

[gingerswagfreckles]

Hearing a rumor that Noam Chomsky died and it hasn't been announced yet.

[miistical]

[selfcarecap]

I’m soo over all my literature classes already I love literature but I literally want the professor to die and I have her for all three lit classes

[eastern-lights]

Significant events of today:

Went to a lecture on Beowulf with an injured kestrel in a box (she had flown into a window in the faculty courtyard and no-one else would take her).

The professor was actually delighted at her presence.

Her state significantly improved after the professor recited verses 700-750 in flawless Old English.

After the lecture, we asked him to give her a name.

So now she's called Hyht ("Hope") and is currently safe and in the care of professionals at a wildlife rehab centre.

[ecceagnesdarling]

I've just found out that my favorite professor used to be a random student that they asked to teach in the university because he was good like that. He's been here for a couple of decades.

They even had to beg him to get a master's degree because he had no intentions to do so, and you legally can't have someone with just a bachelor's teaching university level in my country.

Honestly? Life goals.