Put links or thoughts relating to linguistics here.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:37 (sixteen years ago)
"colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is actually a completely rad sentence and not at all meaningless
― come on let's be meaningful together yeah (bug), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:50 (sixteen years ago)
I think the saying like too much phenomenon is interesting. We have two or three generations now who are always seeming to mean, "It was as if," or "She seemed to be saying," or making other comparisons and generalizations like those.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)
This quiz is fun, to the extent that you enjoy guessing global dialects of English based on audio samples (I do!):
http://qz.com/259129/quiz-can-you-guess-the-accent/
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 5 September 2014 02:45 (eleven years ago)
I don't even know what this sub-board is about so I am re-posting this elsewhere!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 5 September 2014 02:47 (eleven years ago)