One more campus linguistic snippet, from last Thursday's student newspaper, the Badger Herald:
Update, 3:30 am (by Mr. V): You can see the cartoonist's series on the IPA and other work here. (If you follow that link, note how she treats the American English rhotic in coda position.)
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She should do a set for every major subfield of linguistics!!! Morphology humor ... syntactic tree jokes ... historical linguistics zingers.
"omg, how did I only just learn about Mr. Verb?" — Lauren, Dec. 9, '08
"Mr. Verb and his minions, few though there seem to be, dislike reading, or dislike reading carefully." — Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and publisher, The Vocabula Review
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She should do a set for every major subfield of linguistics!!! Morphology humor ... syntactic tree jokes ... historical linguistics zingers.
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