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#CLASSIC

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Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - Round 2 Side 1

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#sweep tomgreg nation sweep

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Thoughts on Universal Grammar? I come from a very Chomskyian background in my undergrad where UG was touted as the One True Theory, but curious was the Official Linguistics Blog of Tumblr has to say

i side-eye

#in my previous department UG was only referred to jokingly #100% #i am not exaggerating

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#im green currently #first and last student vappu for me

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#whew almost missed it #30 min to go

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So like i've heard english is 3 languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be one is that true?

it's greatly overexaggerated.

english is structurally a germanic language. it had a large influx of french vocabulary following the norman conquest, and it's picked up a lot of lexical items from other languages too, sometimes with their original morphology still attached (like pluralizing "addendum" as "addenda" the latin way, rather than english +(e)s plural).

so it's more like one language that really likes to accessorize and maybe kept the fancy suit that old norman left at its house one time.

#🙏🏼

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tiiättekö sen fazerin patukkamainoksen mikä pyörii youtubes kokoajan missä ne patukat laulaa. mitä luulette onks siitä jo rule 34

#suomitumppu #perkele #vittu #saatana #suomitumblr #suomeksi #paskapostaus #helvetti #wabu ei lobu

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you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

#all the FUCKING ***** *****

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The linguistics world feels so delightfully small sometimes. I recognise 80% of researcher names I come across now and it always makes me laugh

it's all fun and games until you're trying to track down sources but the source appears to be "an email chain from the 90s that led to 5 different publications"

#lit rally #my specific subfield has less than 10 active researchers (plus now me i guess??) and they all HATE each other its so funny #nah im not gonna publish i dont think i cant count myself in

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#whenever my hairs dirty and/or im sweaty/smelly #which most often amounts to every two days #sometimes three #might be every day during the summer but thats a very small portion of the year

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I really want you to read harrow the ninth not bc I think it's a good book or anything but specifically so you can see with your own two eyes the part where they quote none pizza with left beef in there

You guys would put me in a box and shock me with wires if you could

#they do what

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just found out about “star trek”. i think those kirk and spock guys are kind of homosexual. i wonder if anyone else has ever thought that

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when the academic article is so good it has you giggling and kicking your feet

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the great thing about tumblr is, no matter how long it's been since you last logged in, there's always a new season of supernatural

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If you all haven't heard about it yet: https://ratethelandlord.org/