#learninglinguist

At least Martin Freeman acted like he was TRYING to put on an American accent this time.

Thanks for tagging me @frislander!!  I’m going to use your questions.  

Name:Steph
Nickname: Oh my nickname is Steph. My name is Stephanie but call me Steph.
Zodiac Sign:Cancer.
Height: I think I’m 5′8 maybe.
Orientation: Horizontal because I’m lying down but sometimes I stand up.  That’s definitely what this question means, right?
Nationality:Canadian.
Fav Fruit: Watermelon 100%
Fav Season: Not summer.
Fav Book: This is really hard.  For children’s books maybe Percy Jackson but otherwise I’d say A Little Book of Language by David Crystal. 
Fav Flower: Violets?  
Fav Scent: Vanilla?
Fav Colour: Purple?
Fav Animal: Dogs because I have a dog and I love her.
Coffee, Tea or Hot Cocoa: Tea or ice capps from tims. 
Average Hours of Sleep: Not many.
Cats or Dogs: Dogs!!
Fav Fictional Character: Tbh Steve Rogers I’m so sorry.  or Peggy Carter <3 
Number of Blankets You Sleep With: Always two.  Sometimes I add or take one away.  
Dream Trip: I just went on my dream trip a few weeks ago when I went to France.  I’ve always wanted to go because I’ve been learning french for so long and am somewhat fluent now and I definitely wanted to practice speaking it in public with native speakers and wow.  wow.  
Blog Created: Sometime after school started last year and before Arrival came out, so that would be sometime between September and October 2016.  

Alright I’ll tag @strugglingtofrench,@bilabialfricative,@bibliophile-in-love,@c3po-does-languages,@fremmedsprak,@historyandlanguages,@kahlil-themulattolinguist,@kelseythelinguist,@linguisticsyall,@maskedlinguist,@missalsfromiram,@nathanielthecurious,@overdevv,@polyglottalstop,@queerwug,@randomtinywords,@solinguistics,@wuglife,@xeno-linguist, and @yetanotherlanguage.  

I kind of have a similar situation because I am double majoring in two majors that overlap about eight classes, and the school has them count for both majors.

oh wow thats really convenient!!  I hope my school lets things overlap?  

I was thinking of minoring in psychology because a lot of upper year linguistics students I know are doing that, but decided again on anthropology because there are so many more anthropology courses I want to take. my only problem is that a lot of anthro courses count for my ling major and my anthro minor and idk how to specify what courses count for which? because surely they can’t count for both? idk. i wish my academic counselling office would get back to me soon. not picking up the phone the day before course selection opens is annoying.

I decided to make an arabic twitter account so follow me @ learningarabia !! I want to follow more funny accounts or pretentious quote accounts or study accounts so if you know of any hmu

Based on the rate at which our threshold for hearing high-pitched noises lowers, wouldn’t Yoda be unable to hear much at all, let alone Luke’s voice?

I have a ko-fi now so buy me a coffee if you want to help a student sustain her caffeine-dependent life force ☕ 

Can I just @ everyone who sends me posts they think I’ll like even if we don’t know each other and have never spoken before and say that I love you with all my heart

I’ve slacked off this summer so now I have a month to refresh my Arabic and advance it to a level high enough to be able to understand my prof in september, who is teaching the entire class in Arabic. So recommend your favourite music and tv shows!!

umm some popular fandom blog just reblogged my “i love academia because you can just call your headcanons “"theories”“ and suddenly you’re a scholar instead of a huge nerd” post

and now a bunch of people are reblogging it and adding embarrassing comments about actually writing academic stuff about fandoms and tv shows.

like. no. i was talking about stuff like headcanons about proto indo-european languages and achilles and patroclus in the illiad and stuff. academic headcanons. not about supernatural

Did I ever mention how I have a bit of an obsession with Original Pronunciation Shakespeare and how a year ago I memorized several monologues in semi-accurate original pronunciation?  My roommates made fun of me but also found it interesting when I explained the jokes and rhymes that don’t make sense anymore in modern rp english..

If you’re Canadian, there really is a specific moment in your life where you consciously decided to rebel against the US and say “zed” instead of “zee”