Doc Yewll is flawless. I really don’t like the rest of the show, but she is ~glorious~
An hour after I called the framing place and voiced some extreme displeasure that the work was supposed to be done today so I could drop it off by Friday, I received a meek voicemail informing me someone had finished my job and I could pick it up at my convenience. Imagine that.
I wish I was not steadily discovering that being firm bordering on angry at people is getting more important things done than being nice.
Garak’s Shop/ The Most Popular Dress in the Galaxy:
DS9 “Rivals” (2x11) , DS9 “The Muse” (4x21)
DS9 “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges” (7x16), DS9 “In the Cards” (5x25)
Star Trek: Generations , Star Trek: Nemesis
VOY “Drive” (7x03) , ENT “Terra Prime” (4x21)
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My framing was supposed to done today and I just called and it hasn’t been touched~~
It won’t make it into the show if I don’t have it back before Friday, ugh I am so mad
transiences:andywooo:animeasuka:wafflesforstephanie:yosb:
welcome to harvard: linguistics 101
Is this reality?
Abso-fucking-lutely.
yo the word fucking is actually really interesting because it’s one of american english’s only infixes
YES THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY COOL MY AP ENGLISH TEACHER WENT ON A 5-MINUTE RANT ABOUT “FUCK” AND HOW IT’S THE ONLY WORD YOU CAN INSERT INTO OTHER WORDS
I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THE WORD “FUCK” OKAY
This is actually really cool because technically “fuck” can’t even be an infix, as it’s a meaningful free morpheme and those can’t be used as grammatical morphemes (also in English infixes only exist in fossilized form) but the use of “fuck” for inflectional word formation is actually fascinating
As I see it, the more and more frequent use of a word as a suffix implies that it’s undergoing semantic bleaching
Soon, possibly not during our generation’s or our children’s or grandchildren’s lifespan, the word “fuck” may eventually lose its meaning and become a grammatical intensifying suffix or possibly the only actual inflix in the English language
and if you don’t think that’s at least kinda cool then I feel sorry for you son because linguistics is an amazing field of study and gdi I love the English language
Reblogging again for the commentary from the wonderful weresquirrel
My Japanese professor talked about this once. He was saying that infixing was not very popular in English and was slightly more common in Japanese, but was not unknown in English and when we just stared at him, not comprehending, he said, “You know, in-fucking-fixing.”
(Also, the Pennsylvanian in me hastens to add that the ‘fucking’ is in the wrong place. Anyone else who has had the misfortune to be trapped here will tell you it’s Pennsyl-fucking-vania.)
(OH, it looks like maybe they’re comparing the right and wrong way to do it, I couldn’t see it well before. Good, good. We’re okay now.)
(via theladyem)
