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  • Theoretical Linguistics

    I'm not really here to do theoretical linguistics, but if you're working towards a degree you have to at least dabble in theory. So I'm dabbling, this semester, with Issues in Morphology taught by one of those Legendary…

  • The number of people who use "whom" and "who" wrongly is appalling. The problem is a difficult one and it is complicated by the importance of tone, or taste. Take the common expression, "Whom are …

  • snark and lewis wannabes

    Keep thinking I have things to write.Went to a "debate" tonight-- big auditorium, standing-room only. However those folks publicize, I need to take a page from their book. It was put on by the Gator Freethought Society…

  • stress and fear

    In three hours, my comprehensive exams will be over.In the meantime-- what on God's good earth does it mean to "project the rightmost asterisk"?Phonology makes no freaking sense.

  • The Boy Who Lived

    Well, I'm about halfway through the Harry Potter series (have read books 1, 3, 7, and 2 in that order and am now working on #4. 6 is next, and then 5)Took me a long time to come around, but I now fully understand why J.…

  • racism at Rift

    I've just discovered that my old boarding school has an alumni website. Among other things, the site has a gift shop where you can buy T-shirts, bumper stickers, etc to show your alma matronal loyalty.Included in the gi…

  • Expecto Patronum

    Against the warnings of friends ("you haven't watched or read Goblet of Fire? You can't see Order of the Phoenix!!") I snuck out to the theatre the other day and watched the new Harry Potter movie. The phonologist in m…

  • Big Grab

    The corn chip engineer gets a bright idea,and talks to the corn chip executiveand six months later at the factory they begin subtractinga few chips from every bag,but they still call it on the outside wrapper,The Big Gra…

  • Not a Floridian? ME???

    Apparently, the Registrar of the University of Florida does not consider me a Florida resident.This is due to some stupid technical error that requires nothing but piles of documentation to remedy. Copies of my driver's…

  • Brush and Floss: To a Young Child

    Margaret, are you grievingSince your gums are not yet teething?Teeth, all the ones you lost, youMiss, especially those front two?Ah! as the mouth grows olderIt will earn a dental folderYear by year, nor shed a tearThough…

  • and you thought it was hard to TAKE a test...

    Writing exams is the most miserable thing ever. I'd rather take a test any day than create one from scratch.

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