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Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

The invisible youthful big beautiful unicorn one is bold for implicitly sidelining the canonical green great dragon

# ? Dec 15, 2023 23:16

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 18:39

Benagain: Oct 10, 2007; Can you see that I am serious?; Fun Shoe

Data Graham posted:

The invisible youthful big beautiful unicorn one is bold for implicitly sidelining the canonical green great dragon

wait if great green dragon feels more right does that mean I have brain cancer or something

# ? Dec 15, 2023 23:24

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

Benagain posted:

wait if great green dragon feels more right does that mean I have brain cancer or something

No, "great green dragon" is the correct ordering, "green great dragon" is the example used to demonstrate the adjectives have an implicit ordering in english (because that one feels wrong).

# ? Dec 15, 2023 23:37

Hyperlynx: Sep 13, 2015

I enjoyed the language memes far, far more than the angry politicial ones, and I hope this rechristening heralds the dawn of a glorious new era of linguistics memes.

# ? Dec 15, 2023 23:43

Meskhenet: Apr 26, 2010

ToxicFrog posted:

No, "great green dragon" is the correct ordering, "green great dragon" is the example used to demonstrate the adjectives have an implicit ordering in english (because that one feels wrong).

See i read that as

there are multiple green dragons, im talking about the great one.

then

there are multiple great dragons, and now im talking about the green one.

2 different subsets of dragons

# ? Dec 15, 2023 23:43

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Lemme skip ahead a lil

Mark Forsyth posted:

Hyperbaton is when you put words in an odd order, which is very, very difficult to do in English. Given that almost everything else in the English language is slapdash, happy-go-lucky, care-may-the-Devil, word order is surprisingly strict. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote his first story aged seven. It was about a "green great dragon." He showed it to his mother who told him that you absolutely couldn't have a green great dragon, and that it had to be a great green one instead. Tolkien was so disheartened that he never wrote another story for years.

The reason for Tolkien's mistake, since you ask, is that adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=27890

# ? Dec 15, 2023 23:50

maybeadracula: Sep 9, 2022; by sebmojo

Meskhenet posted:

See i read that as

there are multiple green dragons, im talking about the great one.

then

there are multiple great dragons, and now im talking about the green one.

2 different subsets of dragons

If you're talking about Great Dragons, sure but that's different

# ? Dec 15, 2023 23:53

CPColin: Sep 9, 2003; Big ol' smile.

Data Graham posted:

Lemme skip ahead a lil

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=27890

Meanwhile, hyperbation is what happens when you watch 4D VR porn

# ? Dec 16, 2023 00:30

ButterNBacon: Feb 17, 2004

Flashback Friday: Two years ago exactly, Nancy Reagan bj memes were all the rage.

The Anime Liker posted:

# ? Dec 16, 2023 00:48

root beer: Nov 13, 2005

voiceless anal fricative posted:

That�s a lot of memes. Surely that�s all of them. I bet there aren�t any more, are there?

# ? Dec 16, 2023 00:50

Bloody Hedgehog: Dec 12, 2003; 💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

Data Graham posted:

Lemme skip ahead a lil

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=27890

You forgot to skip far enough ahead to where they rule is shown to be bullshit for everyone except grammar pedants.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 00:51

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

root beer posted:

That�s a lot of memes. Surely that�s all of them.

CainFortea posted:

Remember who?

Haven't seen bike tory post in a while. The man up and vanished like a voiceless anal fricative in the wind!

# ? Dec 16, 2023 01:04

Indecisive: May 6, 2007

# ? Dec 16, 2023 02:08

mystes: May 31, 2006

Indecisive posted:

nobody wants to ~~work~~ not work anymore

# ? Dec 16, 2023 02:11

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

There are two ways to pronounce �the� so it�s at least a little more complicated

# ? Dec 16, 2023 02:20

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

opengl posted:

please dont post memes to make me angry

# ? Dec 16, 2023 03:16

Empty Sandwich: Apr 22, 2008; goatse mugs

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

You forgot to skip far enough ahead to where they rule is shown to be bullshit for everyone except grammar pedants.

oh this is one of those rules that pedants absolutely don't know: a natural usage rule

but also they suck at the rest of the rules

# ? Dec 16, 2023 03:33

Cartoon Man: Jan 31, 2004

# ? Dec 16, 2023 03:48

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

You forgot to skip far enough ahead to where they rule is shown to be bullshit for everyone except grammar pedants.

It's not a rule in the sense that if you order the adjectives differently it's ungrammatical, it's a rule in the sense that if you order them differently native speakers will go "huh, something feels off about that sentence but I can't put my finger on what".

# ? Dec 16, 2023 04:51

space uncle: Sep 17, 2006; "I don�t care if Biden beats Trump. I�m not offloading responsibility. If enough people feel similar to me, such as the large population of Muslim people in Dearborn, Michigan. Then he won�t"

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

You forgot to skip far enough ahead to where they rule is shown to be bullshit for everyone except grammar pedants.

Look at this short bad silly wrong post.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 05:57

mysterious frankie: Jan 11, 2009; This displeases Dev- ..van. Shut up.

Indecisive posted:

Jokes on them, I�m too neurotically scared of anything new/making a mistake to ever voluntarily leave any job, no matter how much I hate it. Hiring me is like picking up a cursed object in a horror movie; losing me will come at great cost.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 06:02

Tree Bucket: Apr 1, 2016; R.I.P.idura leucophrys

mysterious frankie posted:

Jokes on them, I�m too neurotically scared of anything new/making a mistake to ever voluntarily leave any job, no matter how much I hate it. Hiring me is like picking up a cursed object in a horror movie; losing me will come at great cost.

(nods managerishly) sounds like you're a real team player! You're hired!!

# ? Dec 16, 2023 06:05

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
GENERATOR
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Tree Bucket posted:

(nods managerishly) sounds like you're a real team player! You're hired!!

# ? Dec 16, 2023 06:07

mysterious frankie: Jan 11, 2009; This displeases Dev- ..van. Shut up.

Tree Bucket posted:

(nods managerishly) sounds like you're a real team player! You're hired!!

MANAGER: frankly your performance isn�t great and it shows in your review.
ME: that�s fair. I�m a c+ performer, at best.
MANAGER: and you�re ok with this?
ME: I was not aware you could be ok with things.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 06:11

E-flat: Jun 22, 2007; 3-flat

The IPA meme bothers me because it�s not all that accurate. The word �which� is roughly [wɪt͡ʃ] and not [wɪtʃ]. It�s not properly an affricate without the tie bar, fight me :colbert:

Here are some memes from my field. They�re all from instagram sorry

# ? Dec 16, 2023 07:39

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

euphronius posted:

There are two ways to pronounce “the” so it’s at least a little more complicated

Yeah, but that's based on the following sound, same rule as a/an: vowel sounds and history get the /i/, consonants get /ə/.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 09:00

Spyderizer: Feb 18, 2004

Takes No Damage posted:

Haven't seen bike tory post in a while. The man up and vanished like a voiceless anal fricative in the wind!

Our government just announced they've cut funding for cycleways, he's probably just out with his petrol can and matches.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 09:06

Laserjet 4P: Mar 28, 2005; What does it mean?; Fun Shoe

mind the walrus posted:

Got linguist friends and they are lolling like pigs in poo poo rn. Thanks.

This implies queefs are voiceless bilabial fricatives.

Can we get a linguist to confirm this?

# ? Dec 16, 2023 09:38

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Actually, I would argue that a fart is in fact an anal stop, possibly affricated and probably coarticulated with the buttocks.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 10:00

VROOM VROOM: Jun 8, 2005

Anyone who thinks a fart is voiceless hasn't heard mine

# ? Dec 16, 2023 10:20

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

mysterious frankie posted:

Jokes on them, I�m too neurotically scared of anything new/making a mistake to ever voluntarily leave any job, no matter how much I hate it. Hiring me is like picking up a cursed object in a horror movie; losing me will come at great cost.

.............gently caress, it's me

Laserjet 4P posted:

This implies queefs are voiceless bilabial fricatives.

Can we get a cunning linguist to confirm this?

Bro... it was right there.

VROOM VROOM posted:

Anyone who thinks a fart is voiceless hasn't heard mine

They all thought anal fricatives were voiceless but im dummy thicc and the

Spyderizer posted:

Our government just announced they've cut funding for cycleways, he's probably just out with his petrol can and matches.

It's a bit extreme to go all Buddhist monk over something like that :kingsley:

# ? Dec 16, 2023 10:35

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

My rear end has glossolalia

# ? Dec 16, 2023 10:58

crab hat CRAB HAT!: Feb 19, 2008; Doctor Rope

# ? Dec 16, 2023 19:36

Pope Hilarius II: Nov 10, 2008

Linguistics nostalgia: a thesis student once got mad at me because I pointed out he was assigning the wrong IPA characters to my dialect (which he didn't speak and interviewed me for as a test subject).

VROOM VROOM posted:

Anyone who thinks a fart is voiceless hasn't heard mine

A fart is a vowel though since the air flows out unobstructed? Also if you can whisper a fart, it's voiceless.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 20:28

Poor Miserable Gurgi: Dec 29, 2006; He's a wisecracker!

Voiceless but deadly

# ? Dec 16, 2023 20:33

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:

Voiceless but deadly

Voiceless deadly butt

# ? Dec 16, 2023 20:38

BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Pope Hilarius II posted:

A fart is a vowel though since the air flows out unobstructed? Also if you can whisper a fart, it's voiceless.

It really should be analyzed [sic] as three segments I guess, a stop in each end and either a voiceless vowel thing or a fricative depending on the amount of sound.

# ? Dec 16, 2023 20:42