When most people tell you they think words are so fascinating, they have in mind items like “canoodle” and “serendipity.” When linguists say it, they have in mind, like, “the.”
Geoffrey Nunberg on twitter, January 3, 2018 (via linguisten)
I remember telling someone i was studying dialect and proceeded to explain how excited i was about variation in the last vowel sound in words like “horses” and “buses” and i could see them fading away in disappointment and pity
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