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Sam Troughton saying he thought Much was asexual and then it being written for him to be in love with Kate… Sam Troughton using the term asexual in 2009 when it was not as discussed as now… icon, Much is still asexual to me

#robin hood bbc #q2

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can’t believe revenge of the sith takes place over four days. worst week of obi wan’s life. worst week of padme’s life. worst week of yoda’s life. somewhere in the bottom 50 for anakin

#star wars #q2

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for @comfortbuddie, mwah! 7x01 vs. 5x18: madney stay goofy as hell 💕 jee-yun pawned all their brain cells for ice cream spoons

#they're so stupid #I love them #9-1-1 #q2

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if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

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my hobbies? uhh.. peeling back the layers…. uncovering metaphors.. mirroring…..connecting dots…..stuff like that

#hate it when people ask me about my hobbies #because this is the most accurate answer #q2

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9-1-1 | 5x09 "Past Is Prologue"

"Find ways to reconnect." "Cap knows of what he speaks."

#9-1-1 #q2

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Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games

Can you test for drift compatibility via improv comedy

#pacific rim #q2

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tried not liking taylor kelly, but she was serving too much cunt for me not to

#9-1-1 #let her do crimes #q2

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'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me

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been feeling a lot like him lately

#the unemployment routine #q2

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the more I re-watch S3, the more and more it’s so stupid and not well thought out at all. JUSTICE FOR THE GANG

#just rewatched while my friend watched for the first time #there were so many opportunities for them to do something (anything!) with the story and characters #kate is the only one with consistent motivation?? #robin hood bbc #q2

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Bobby and Athena 9-1-1 | Capsized

#romance was invented for them #9-1-1 #q2

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Nancy Gillian and Mateo Chavez

#9-1-1 lone star #q2

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What's the most interesting thing about tumblr for you linguistically?

It’s totally the tags.

Those tags where people write essays. I’m obsessed with those. They’re downright amazing linguistically!

I even proposed to do a research experiment on phrases, the juncture of syntax and semantics, and tumblr tags for my Computational Corpus Linguistics course. The teacher approved the project, but I ended up discarding it for a later time because of how difficult and involved the task would have been. There were too many problems to work out in the experiment and I realized I didn’t have enough time to do what I want.

The tags are intriguing for multiple reasons. They frankly make me run around like a chicken with his head cut off - except happier.

Syntax and Cognitive Science The tags show some very interesting things about phrasal structure. People divide up long sentences in tags during pauses. It’s unique “punctuation” and it says a lot for how people chunk thoughts, process them, and organize longer statements. It’s interesting where you see punctuation added or deleted; it helps you see cognitively how people are processing phrases.

Semantics The tags are full of very interesting expression techniques. One of the problems of written language has been that it lacks body language, which constitutes over half of our expression in conversation. It means that written language can be very easily misinterpreted for intent (think of how many texts get misinterpreted). But tumblrites and other social media savvy people have compensated and made written language HUGELY expressive. You see it in the tags. You see people use unique punctuation effects like deleting spaces, intentionally misspelling words, adding capitalization, and much more. There are emoticons, keyboard smashes, explosions of exclamation marks, and so many beautiful ways of expressing emotion. And people use lots of words in fascinating ways to get their thoughts across. It’s endless.

Diachronic Linguistics Historical linguistics is really cool. It’s about language change. Internet speech in tumblr has the latest, newest words and word units out there. You see so much beautiful language change happening. It’s how “Rickrolled” became a verb and “smol” grew its own set of recognized connotations. Word meanings change, take on new meanings, are filled with so much amazing sociolinguistic context. Abbreviations are made for fandom content. Abbreviations eventually become treated like real words, and then they take on new suffixes and become verbs and adjectives and nouns (”I lol’ed”). There are certain phonotactic paradigms English speakers subconsciously follow for creating new shipping names; I’ve even seen a linguistics paper on that topic. People are able to understand new terms they’ve never seen before; I’ve never heard of “Ruffheat,” but if someone said that to me, I’d know right away they’re talking about a Ruffnut x Heather ship. If someone told me “Hiccaang,” somehow I’d be able to figure out they’re talking about some Aang x Hiccup crack ship. We can just do that automatically because we’ve built our own compounding systems! And not only do we do that, but language changes SO FREAKISHLY RAPIDLY on tumblr it’s constant excitement.

Sociolinguistics Language varies based upon different groups we are a part of, and tumblr is full of many communities. Fandom communities, the science side of tumblr, the social justice community, and more are all out there. Each group has its own diction, vocabulary, and more. It’s also amazing how this collides with the fact that tumblr is global; the conversations arising aren’t just from native English speakers, but individuals whose first language might be Malay, Khmer, German, Korean, Japanese, or Finnish.

So yeah. And where you see all this amazingness the most is in the tags.

Believe me, I tag browse a lot because the content there is GOLD. Pure GOLD.

Someday I do hope to take my tumblr experiences and conduct a legitimate linguistics research study. It can teach us a lot about contemporary English, internet English, and how it’s used around the globe.inguistic

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her ex, the lord

#9-1-1

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911: Lone Star S4 E14 | The Case of the Stolen Pudding Cup -> The Culprit Revealed

#9-1-1 lone star #q2