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.

It has one of those trendy names — it’s just called “X”.

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(Source: lingllama)

[Comic. Yoda riding Luke Skywalker’s back, as in the scene from Star Wars. First panel — Luke: “Dude, why do you talk backwards all the time?” Second panel — Yoda: “Backwards-talking I am not. English-centric view of grammatical structure, you have.”]

Source.

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Though, I Have That As Well

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helloimglo submitted: 

I know it’s not our cute linguist llama, but one of my friends made it and I thought you would appreciate this christmas tree. :D

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

[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: “ Eskimos have 14954354321 words for snow! ” Bottom text: “ Agglutination is not the same as word formation. ”]

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