Another way that linguists are different from pirates: [ x ] marks the voiceless velar fricative.

Another way that linguists are different from pirates: [ x ] marks the 
voiceless velar fricative.  - Another way that linguists are different from pirates: [ x ] marks the 
voiceless velar fricative.   Linguist Llama

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I wanna be A schwa. it's never stressed

I wanna be A schwa. it's never stressed

Tense? moody? irregular? you must be a verb.

Tense? moody? irregular? you must be a verb.

Three syntacticians walk into A'

Three syntacticians walk into A'

discover Conlanging 163 phonemes, 19 cases, OSV order, 5 genders, 24 tenses, 6 numbers, 4 persons, 5 tones, agglutinating, evidentiality, adjectival infixes, base 60 numeral system, logographic writing system, 4 registers,

discover Conlanging 163 phonemes, 19 cases,  OSV order, 5 genders, 24 tenses,   6 numbers, 4 persons, 5 tones, agglutinating, evidentiality, adjectival infixes, base 60 numeral system, logographic writing system, 4 registers,

You're not a true phonetician until you've vomited trying to make pharyngeal sounds

You're not a true phonetician until you've vomited trying to make pharyngeal sounds

Make linguistics jokes at parties no friends

Make linguistics jokes at parties no friends

Linguistics When you can analyze the syntactic processes of a language but can't say hello in the language.

Linguistics When you can analyze
the syntactic processes of a language
but can't say hello in the language.

Tell someone you're a linguistics major "oh, cool. ... what's linguistics?"

Tell someone you're a linguistics major

Go to google, type "why do asians speak" stare in disbelief at the autocomplete suggestion

Go to google,
type

Rah, rah, ah, ah, ah Roma, roma, ma Gaga, ooh, la, la Want your bad romance Stutter, final cluster deletion, third person pronoun deletion in place of proper noun, onomatopoeia usage, lack of "s" to imply conjugation... broken broca.

Rah, rah, ah, ah, ah
Roma, roma, ma
Gaga, ooh, la, la
Want your bad romance Stutter, final cluster deletion, third person pronoun deletion in place of proper noun, onomatopoeia usage, lack of
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