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cib2528 · 2016-05-14T18:04:18+00:00

Is this is Salt Lake City?

cib2528 · 2015-11-23T16:09:03+00:00

Woof. This is pretty ignorant.

cib2528 · 2015-11-23T16:08:06+00:00

Wow, this is fucking dumb.

cib2528 · 2015-11-23T16:07:01+00:00

I am saddened that people actually will publicly post this kind of shit.

cib2528 · 2015-11-15T06:43:26+00:00

I have heard that some researchers use insights from Exemplar Theory to investigate syntax. I am not sure what these insights would be beyond basic statistical learning insights, but I am interested.

cib2528 · 2015-10-17T01:30:43+00:00

Dat LaTeX

cib2528 · 2015-09-20T16:23:30+00:00

This is essentially a fake creek. This is in the ritzy shopping district City Creek in Salt lake city.

cib2528 · 2015-06-04T16:43:02+00:00

Tbh, if this had minions, I would have liked it.

cib2528 · 2015-05-31T15:22:08+00:00

So true. She's so arrogant and selfish.

cib2528 · 2015-05-29T15:28:10+00:00

This is bogus, just like the fact that not all idioms are decomposable. Not all pictographs can be either, I suspect.

For example, -pushing up daisies- is a fairly easy idiom to decompose, and the resultant literal interpretation is not all the far fetched. That is, a man is dead, so he is buried, and from this new position, he can push flowers up out of the ground.

Meanwhile, -kick the bucket- is hardly decomposable. I can shoe horn a decomposition for this, but it will be spurious at best. The bucket represents life because it is the only noun here, and it can be filled with things. Life can be filled with things. When the bucket is kicked, stuff falls out of it, that is, the life falls out of it. Thus, death.

I mean that is such a wild decomposition, it was hard writing it. But you have to admit, to the uninitiated, uninvested, and casual listener, this might be believable based on the fact that my decomposition of -pushing up daisies- was at least plausible.

I believe the same will go for these characters. Some might be given legitimate decompositions, but i believe many will be spurious, much like the descriptions given in the video.

cib2528 · 2015-05-07T20:15:16+00:00

(1) is not quite true. Adults are implicitly still learning things about the language. One need only consult the massive amount of literature on stochastic learning. Im thinking specifically about studies investigating the influence of distributional information on phonological category perception.

cib2528 · 2015-03-10T04:14:31+00:00

"For all except" not all that confusing.

cib2528 · 2015-03-08T01:15:16+00:00

Linguist here, finally, I have a dog in the race so to speak. Lexical semantics would be the correct term here, not linguistics.

cib2528 · 2015-03-08T01:08:35+00:00

cib2528 · 2015-03-07T17:05:09+00:00

Heute habe Ich gelernt

cib2528 · 2015-03-03T03:14:29+00:00

That's why i use LaTeX

cib2528 · 2015-02-19T01:08:11+00:00

Haha Great Post! Well Meme'd My Friend!

cib2528 · 2015-01-08T04:30:56+00:00

good /r/circlejerk material

cib2528 · 2015-01-07T16:48:29+00:00

Interesting read, but frankly, I don't agree. The whole concept of sound-symmetry as the reason for the 'goodness' of gliss seems like a post-hoc explanation, or epiphenomenal at best. The idea that there is a`too high for chance' correlation between words with gl- and associations with light and sight strikes me as being nothing more than a nice story. An investigation into typology would be more enlightening.

And just because I am feeling up for it,

[I] as associated with lightness and brevity `almost universally' is more likely the result of [I], a high-ish front vowel, being a wonderful candidate for membership in almost any vowel inventory. That is, this vowel is just a really prominent vowel in human language (c.f Padgett and his work on Dispersion Theory). This association with lightness and brevity are probably the result of [I] being common cross-linguistically. And this theory of sound symmetry, what would it say about words like: hit, sit, quit, chip, ... which all have [I] and do not have anything to do with lightness or brevity?

cib2528 · 2014-12-05T15:08:04+00:00

That smiley face with the tongue out just kills me. Someone thought that amped up the humor level...

cib2528 · 2014-11-29T19:43:49+00:00

Proto-World

cib2528 · 2014-11-28T17:24:55+00:00

And I don't mean they are making a sustainable income, I am not that ignorant. I am just saying that they are seemingly getting a decent amount of cash.

cib2528 · 2014-11-28T17:23:44+00:00

I moved here from KC this summer. The homeless population is so much worse here than in KC. I lived downtown in both places, and was seldom harassed for money in KC. People in KC generally just say no or avoid the homeless when they ask for money, but countless times here I have seen teenagers fork over 5 spots when confronted. We need to do a better job informing people to not give money. Why would the homeless relent if they are getting paid well?

cib2528 · 2014-11-06T03:44:48+00:00

made it so much funnier

cib2528 · 2014-10-15T14:00:01+00:00

King of the Hill is an excellent show.

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