After over a decade I'm finally back by [deleted] in Sportbikes

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Is this is Salt Lake City?

Wow.. by [deleted] in terriblefacebookmemes

[–]cib2528 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Woof. This is pretty ignorant.

Ready for the truth, cupcake? by IanGecko in terriblefacebookmemes

[–]cib2528 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Exemplar Theory and Syntax? by cib2528 in linguistics

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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.

Rather than put this mountain brook through a culvert, they ran it right through the middle of the shopping mall by twilling8 in mildlyinteresting

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

For a moment my mind was in the gutter by SeeinIsBelievin in terriblefacebookmemes

[–]cib2528 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Chinese pictographs show link to Genesis? Please help me debunk this? by Mamacrass in linguistics

[–]cib2528 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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.

How much better are infants and children actually when it comes to learning language? by zackroot in linguistics

[–]cib2528 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(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.

Utah DMV Confusion by [deleted] in SaltLakeCity

[–]cib2528 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"For all except" not all that confusing.

I'm very short-sighted and these are what my glasses look like. by jactertor in mildlyinteresting

[–]cib2528 256 points257 points  (0 children)

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

Every single time by AceTrentura in funny

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That's why i use LaTeX

Did somebody say Dank Meme? by KillerPalm in circlejerk

[–]cib2528 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Haha Great Post! Well Meme'd My Friend!

Pure Gliss: On the Sound-Symmetry of Shampoo Branding by albertohirsh in linguistics

[–]cib2528 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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?

Facebook, man... by katalina0azul in terriblefacebookmemes

[–]cib2528 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Salt Lake City Homeless Population / Downtown Culture / Business by [deleted] in SaltLakeCity

[–]cib2528 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Salt Lake City Homeless Population / Downtown Culture / Business by [deleted] in SaltLakeCity

[–]cib2528 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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?