October 2009
10 posts
Academic Celebrity
To me academics are celebrities. The different disciplines correspond to the different genres of celebrity. Psychologists are movie stars, Philosophers are indie movie directors and producers, Biologists are . Anthropologists are Robert Downy Jr. Linguists are the types of stars that cross all genres, the movie star that releases a kick ass album, à la Zooey Deschanel. I feel like being tenured is...
Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
Oct 26th
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Linguistics
Do you like Linguistics? Really? You like Linguistics, in and around your mouth? Oh really? You must be a gay fish.
Oct 26th
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LINGUISTICS GAMES!!! →
Oct 24th
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“Linguists do not care about spelling.”
– Prof. A. J. (via noxyxxx)
Oct 23rd
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How do you feal about Saussure?
I have Course in General Linguistics. It’s old. What does Tumblr think?
Oct 22nd
Mission Statement
I’m a Linguistics major at Pitt. I just started this blog like… yesterday or some shit so gimme some time to get used to it. It’s gonna be sweet though, and I know that all linguistics nerds will be mad into this shit. BTW I’m not sure how I feel about Chomsky. I like the man but I feel like UG has yet to provide anything useful to the study of linguistics. And I think the...
Oct 20th
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New subdiscipline of Linguistics: Animorphology. <The study of thought speak.>
Oct 19th
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Chomsky
“Noam Chomsky is to Linguistics what Einstein is to Physics: An old jew.” -Mordeaux
Oct 19th
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