Linguist Llama

Can vowels come too?

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submitter: My fiance (a non-linguist) came up with this joke in a dream! I was amazed.

If you like Linguistics and twitter accounts like YA BOY BILL NYE, you might be interested in the new parody twitter account, @YABOYCHOMSKY.

You’d [bɛɾɚ]!

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “Intervocalic /t/?” Bottom text: “I’d tap that”]

[ju tɹa͡ɪːd]

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “I tried to depalatalize my consonants” Bottom text: “but it was tyoo hard”]

Nobody’s Perfect

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Shakespearean Llama

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “To be, or not to be” Bottom text: “That’s a copular and its negation”]

Thoughts on YouTube and how the online linguistics community could utilize it.

Is she her own grandma?

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “Adjunct: Daughter of X-bar, Sister to X-bar” Bottom text: “Incestuous syntax?”]

I think this one is Austronesian!

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “ Finds new interesting word” Bottom text: “To the etymobile!”]

Now say it again…into the mic

[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “I’m not mocking your grammar mistakes” Bottom text: “It’s plain scientific curiosity”]