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lesserjoke: “Linguists do it” jokes, courtesy of the University at Buffalo Linguistics Department. (Bolded ones were my contributions to the board.) Statisticians do it normally Neurolinguistics do it in their heads Chomskians do it minimally Agents do it to their Patients with their Instruments Sociolinguists do it with class The horse raced past the barn does it in a garden Reduplication does it does it Syntacticians do it with trees Descriptivists say how others do it OT does it on a table Documentary linguists do it in the field HPSG does it without movement Semanticists do it with meaning Phonologists do it without meaning Prescriptivists tell you how to do it MVS does it with everything Pragmaticists do it politely Ellipsis does… Saussure does it symbolically ASL does it with hands Colorless green ideas do it furiously Sentiment analysis does it with feeling Isolates do it by themselves Formants do it with frequency Transformational Grammar does it with (covert) movement Phoneticians do it with moving articulators A wug does it. Now there are two of them. Two _______ do it. MRS does it again and again, but only as often as needed. Semanticists do it with every farmer and his donkey. Piraha doesn’t do it. Sociolinguists do it with variation Mesospace does it with toy animals Grice does it with Quality and Manner, in Quantity and with Relevance Formal semanticists do it with models Morphologists do it derivationally AND inflectionally.
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New skirt arrived just in time for Easter brunch. Yay!
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Make Smith Possible for Transwomen

calliowong:

Hey, everyone: I’m Calliope, a rising senior-gal in a Connecticut high school who is (just now!) discovering Tumblr for the first time. And I have a rather serious personal problem to share with you all that does not involve GIFs, cats, or BBC shows. My problem is with my dream college 

that superspecial place of ironwilled and astonishing women I want to be a part of

Smith College and its policies (rather: problematic UNpolicies) on accepting transwomen into its ranks.

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Hi everyone. I attended a woman’s college back in the day, and feel very strongly about this issue. Calliope should be allowed to attend Smith, assuming she has the right grades/scores/recs/personal statement/etc. to be admitted. No one should tell her that her biological gender ought to overrule the gender she identifies as. No one gets to tell Calliope that she is not a woman.

Calliope has been denied the right to application twice, but this is not acceptable. Please call Smith’s dean of admissions Deb Shaver at (413) 515-2500 and ask her to reconsider Calliope’s case.

Thank you.

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Leadership

Hi internet friends. I’ve been thinking a lot today about leadership, and specifically, what makes a good leader. I think for me, the top qualities are fairness, thoughtfulness, and trustworthiness. What about you? What do you think makes a good leader?

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yamisora: Ugh you guys I was so confused for like ten seconds. Apparently I’ve forgotten how to read headlines. I am uncomfortable with how long it took me to read this correctly… wow I just read that out load so many times until I finally got it GARDEN PATH’D
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From The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
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Can it be strawberry season already?

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Homeric infixation, straight from the source.
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I forgot how much better I work when I’m completely alone. I went three hours straight yesterday without even thinking to check Facebook or email. And it was awesome.

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kickingmydermatillomania:

arunnerwhowrites:

Videos from the fall showcase are up! (or some of them) This is “Dermatillomania.” 

wow, this had me in tears.

So fucking good.

(Source: rubberducksandpoems)

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“It starts young—you try not to be different just to survive—you try to be just like everyone else—anonymity becomes reflexive—and then one day you wake up and you’ve become all those people—the others—the something you aren’t. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is that you really are. Or you wonder if it’s too late to find out.”
—Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland

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Annnnd now I remember why I stopped browsing the OCD tag on tumblr. Caring about the color of the m&ms you eat =/= OCD.

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