Tim the Shitposting Linguist
@LinguisticsShi1
My colorful greyscale ideas slip fabulously. I like PP-attachment ambiguity more than most people. I need an IPA symbol for my husband's snoring.
I’m Tim, a linguist from Florida. I come up with good ideas like gender reveal parties for German nouns, and officiate at meetings where we decide what BDSM joke to make next about Optimality Theory. Follow me for more deepthink
as a linguist, the speaker should know better: it’s not about “speaking more efficiently” (using mathematical terms for prosaic things isn’t more efficient!) but rather to signal ingroup membership in an emerging elite technocrat class defined by it’s relation to math and code
….linguistic self awareness moment
Nexterday
it’s wild that the english language doesn’t have a word for the day after tomorrow like how
The worries induced by linguistics are worse. We now have to cherish such takes as interesting metacommentary showing us how “language” is constructed through policing languaging. Instead of just saying they are stupid takes.
One more reason everyone should study linguistics: it will spare them unnecessary worry like this
What the hell did somebody just uncork a bottle of Stupid Language Takes on this site? Why is my feed full of dumb statements about language?
One more reason everyone should study linguistics: it will spare them unnecessary worry like this
I’m not very pedantic about language and grammar but the fact that no one seems to know the difference between pique and peak is really starting to worry me
The more you know about actual linguistics the more deeply dumb this tweet sounds. Everybody needs to take linguistics if they don't want to be this guy, complaining that AI is making us stupid at the end of a tweet that is literally too stupid for an AI to have produced.
Has someone tried to develop a variationist approach to the question of how many chuggas come before the choo choo?
Linguistics is the scientific study of dialect with an army and a navy
Can you imagine what a mindjob Sumerian scrabble would be?
Ok for real, Danish followers: how much does that chart reflect the reality of what is going on when you talk? Am I being misled? Are you people less phonologically crazy than I've been led to believe?
I'm sorry but Danish isn't a real language. This is the phonology of somebody's shitty conlang.
Yeah this is why a Latin word like “virus” could never take on a new meaning unforeseen by older generations.
We don’t charge a fee or anything
Sometimes I would like to say 'Y'all' as a British person. Is this allowed?
Stød. Also have you seen those vowels? They are a nation of freaks
What did Denmark ever do
My sexuality is just "Dano-Norwegian Scientist"
Donald Trump is a pedophile
you can just tweet “Donald Trump is a pedophile” and immediately get 1000 likes
Pretty sure it’s self explanatory
Explain me your username... I wont to know why you chose it