So, Styleygeek found a sign for Snigma style. What is a snigma? What does snigmatic mean? Snarky and enigmatic? Cougar says “It’s like a laugh track but it isn’t taped laughter — it’s taped sniggers. For use on sitcoms when something is said that’s not funny enough to laugh out loud.” I don’t think […]
Which is correct:
My academic and work experience fit very well with the qualifications
My academic and work experience fits very well with the qualifications
So my mother and I, in an awesomely exciting Friday night plan, decided to do some of the Lewis Carroll puzzles[1] from Linguist, because they’re fun. (We have, in the past, done them on long car rides. Sometimes you think “oh, if I could only get from drape to gnats I would have the solution”, […]
I seem to be totally incapable of solving part 7 of the Linguist List Lexicon: Game without Rules quiz. Mostly they’re pretty basic questions — up to now, only one has even required knowing anything at all about linguistics — and this looks like it should be as easy, but alas! (Truth be told, I […]
So I am watching CBC’s coverage of the hockey game (2-0 Canada, at this point). This is on television, recall, so I hear someone *saying* this.
“And this winner of this game will go on to play Finland. No, that’s not a typo.”
What is the progressive (-ing) form of “freezing rain”. Is it “freezing rain”, “freezing raining”, “freezinging raining”, something else? (Is it only a noun? Unlikely.)
Pointless bonus question: What is the current weather in Montreal?
You scored as Implosive.
Implosive
92%
Nasal
67%
Alveolar
58%
Bilabial
50%
High Front Vowel
50%
Fricative
42%
Low back vowel
42%
Click
33%
Ejective
8%
Rhotic
0%
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It’s a little long — 14 pages? — but I always like filling these out. And the results are always fun to look at. Plus, you can procrastinate and still be doing something vaguely useful.
I have gotten into a discussion about what I call benefactive me in Standard-ish North American English over at Suzette Haden Elgin’s place. This is the “me” (or whichever other pronoun) in a sentence like “I like me some chocolate”.
Before you go and see what I think, I have some questions about grammaticality and felicity […]
From the department of I wonder why this was languishing in draft status.
I regularly say things like “That firework was really cool” and find it weird, unlike my sister, who regularly says it and thinks it’s entirely normal. And while reading one of the threads on “is it cheaper to eat fast food or […]