The Prescriptive Linguist
A friend sent me a link to this, and being the linguistic humour scholar that I am, seeking out humour in all it's forms, I thought I'd share it with you all.
It addresses the struggle many linguists have between prescriptivism and descriptivism. No matter how much I claim to be a descriptive linguist, I still cringe when something is 'brought from the shop', while something else is 'bought along to a party'.
For all intensive purposes, this post is just an unequivocable excuse to make one after so long, irregardless of my thinly veiled attempt to make it supposably more humorously meaningful.
A friend sent me a link to this, and being the linguistic humour scholar that I am, seeking out humour in all it's forms, I thought I'd share it with you all.
It addresses the struggle many linguists have between prescriptivism and descriptivism. No matter how much I claim to be a descriptive linguist, I still cringe when something is 'brought from the shop', while something else is 'bought along to a party'.
For all intensive purposes, this post is just an unequivocable excuse to make one after so long, irregardless of my thinly veiled attempt to make it supposably more humorously meaningful.
posted by Hooch | 3:07 pm
9 Comments:
Just to make my point unequicovably clear: a prescriptive linguist is one who prescribes the way language SHOULD be spoke. A descriptive linguist describes how youse guys ACTUALLY TALK good English nstuff.
well, no thanks for the guilt trip but I did return your first call - AND left a message. Yes, I have been too busy to return the second call (although imo did tell me you called).
Three jobs?
I will not be doing any dinner plans or anything else until after my thesis is in, so you're looking at midnovember.
Seeing as you've opened this as a line of communication, I will not be returning your call, and will assume that you'll read this message.
Oops. Forgot about cleaning, yes three jobs.
Nice research. Thanks for not trusting me, it so happens that I have a 2 week extension.
Mwahaha! I bring more procrastination to you! George Bush Saves a Baby!
Hmmm... I think the first scene is funny in how crazy it is. The second however labours things a bit too much.
But now for my turn to bring some humour (hopefully) back to this discussion: I have written my own Uncyclopedia entry (with subsequent improvements from some friends) but it may only be there a short time as it is deemed sub-standard. Is it funny at all and if so why?
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Can't a girl make her own decisions how she spends her limited time? In my opinion, which is completely none of my business but has been made my business by this being aired in such a public forum, one party needs to stop the obsessive behaviour, the constant checking up, and the stalking, as that is none of his business.
Lee - Contrary to Daniel's comment (which I assume is related to Lee's George Bush link not the posted Stewie link?), I much prefered the discussion part of the video rather than the 'sick humour' contained in the first few seconds (note to self: write 'sick humour' entry at some stage). My favorite bit was that dude's cry of frustration at the very end.
Daniel - I liked the entry but it did not make me laugh, only smile. I especially like the way the Bronte quote sneaks up on you (now I'll definitely have to read Jane Eyre!). I noticed there is an 'onto' which should be 'on to' in the first section (for some reason couldn't seem to edit the first section), but apart from that I couldn't think of any improvements to make it 'less ugly'. I do hope you succeed in keeping it up - it looked sufficiently like a Wiki article to me. When I have time (ie, in a couple of weeks) I will have to peruse the uncyclopedia further - I may even add it to my links.
James - As amusing as this 'conversation' may be to other readers, it is not the kind of 'humour' that I had planned for this blog.
You do not have to recount my actions to me, but it is quite disturbing that you have. Stop stalking me. Stop obsessing. Get over it. I do not have to justify my actions to you.
If you're intention is to push me away even more so than you already have, then you have succeeded. Please desist in commenting further on my blog. If you continue to monitor my actions, keep it to yourself.
What a strange way to win the lady over.
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