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I'm Steven. I'm a Catholic convert from Protestantism discerning a vocation to the priesthood.
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There may also be an occasional fandom post, too (most likely from Tolkien or Doctor Who)
The best part is, this is basically accurate. See Great Vowel Shift for more details.
April got me a Bible from Korea! I now have like 20 Bibles in 5 languages.
(성경 = Bible)
(한국 천주교 주교회의 = Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea)
Cherokee
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Some grammatical rules can be thought of like cancellation rules in algebra. For example here, the word Chocolate becomes a noun phrase once after cancelling with the noun phrase Biscuits on its right. The words Likes and Quite are more complicated, but constructed so that in the end after all cancellations we have derived a sentence. Adjectives absorb noun phrases, returning new ones. This has lead to some computational linguists treating adjectives as functions of nouns [nouns are often modelled as vectors which encapsulate what contexts they occur in, so adjectives could be matrices which multiply them giving new vectors] [more]
I don’t understand this at all, but someone just linked math and linguistics together. This is so awesome.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdaqiw89qh1qfg7o3o1_500.gif)
Some grammatical rules can be thought of like cancellation rules in algebra. For example here, the word Chocolate becomes a noun phrase once after cancelling with the noun phrase Biscuits on its right. The words Likes and Quite are more complicated, but constructed so that in the end after all cancellations we have derived a sentence. Adjectives absorb noun phrases, returning new ones. This has lead to some computational linguists treating adjectives as functions of nouns [nouns are often modelled as vectors which encapsulate what contexts they occur in, so adjectives could be matrices which multiply them giving new vectors] [more]
I don’t understand this at all, but someone just linked math and linguistics together. This is so awesome.
theinternetghostshavetakenover:
whoa
what omg
the english language, everyone
This hit me like a brick
And people wonder why authors use italics and bold and shit so reader’s understand what’s going the fuck on.
And of course I just read this in my head 7 times, stressing each word differently.
woah okay
The wonders of Linguistics.
My singing teacher taught me this
Yup.
This is the reason for italics and bold.
My Creative Writing English teacher kept critiquing my use of them in my writing, but then I turned a story in without them and he admitted it made less sense that way.
(via sweetandlovelygirl7)
![happyandcatholic:
rawrrrwithme:
altimateginger:
caramelonion:
And people bitch about me for not knowing how to write.
i read this and i got like mixed up 8 of them up and i know english
1. Not a good explanation, but it has to do with the fact that the first is a true diphthong belonging to the language, while the second is the orthographic response to vowel lengthening.
2. Noun accent is on the first syllable, verb accent is on the second in pairs. It’s not a 100% rule, but it is a very good generalization that works in most places.
3. same as 2
4. Capitalization takes care of this, not sure why it’s actually listed.
5. One is the result of a diphthong’s sound being morphed, the other is a vowel lengthening, like 1
6. same as 2, plus an orthographic response to a homophonic pair.
7. same as 2, plus a linguistic anomaly where two unrelated words’ sounds change in such a way that they are now pronounced the same, thus the spelling reflects that.
8. This is due to the insistence that we continue to spell things as they were pronounced many generations ago.
9. Same as 7b, plus an ablaut that alters the sound of “dive.”
10. same as 2
11. same as 2
12. Hompohonic pairs where the orthography was never updated due to the obsoletion of a word “row = fight.”
13. The first silent “e” lengthens the “o” in a word of English origin, the second silent “e” causes the “s” to be pronounced [z] in a word of French origin.
14. same as 9, except the ablaut changes the pronunciation of “do.”
15. The first is a corruption of a diphthong, the second is also the corruption of a diphthong, they just changed differently because one changed in isolation form the -er ending. If you remember which one originally has the -er ending, it clears up.
16. One diphthong was retained, and one was corrupted. This likely has something to do with one being a noun, the other a verb (it really can make a difference).
17. I believe we dropped a silent “e” off of the second one (winde), but I’m not sure.
18. We lost the pronunciation of final voiced bilabial plosives following bilabial nasals, adding an ending doesn’t change this loss as it might in, say, French. Similar to 15
19. One is a corruption of the Latin (AE), the other is a vowel lengthening (related to Greek).
20. same as 2
21. One is a corruption of a Greek verb ending, the other is simply how a word is pronounced. This one is difficult.
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Oh, English is still really freaking difficult. This was just fun to post!
God Bless!
PTQTAD](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3cf64ebbd14e3c1a23926fe3d71f4ea3/tumblr_mfvkwiVihJ1rwmvjgo1_500.jpg)
And people bitch about me for not knowing how to write.
i read this and i got like mixed up 8 of them up and i know english
1. Not a good explanation, but it has to do with the fact that the first is a true diphthong belonging to the language, while the second is the orthographic response to vowel lengthening.
2. Noun accent is on the first syllable, verb accent is on the second in pairs. It’s not a 100% rule, but it is a very good generalization that works in most places.
3. same as 2
4. Capitalization takes care of this, not sure why it’s actually listed.
5. One is the result of a diphthong’s sound being morphed, the other is a vowel lengthening, like 1
6. same as 2, plus an orthographic response to a homophonic pair.
7. same as 2, plus a linguistic anomaly where two unrelated words’ sounds change in such a way that they are now pronounced the same, thus the spelling reflects that.
8. This is due to the insistence that we continue to spell things as they were pronounced many generations ago.
9. Same as 7b, plus an ablaut that alters the sound of “dive.”
10. same as 2
11. same as 2
12. Hompohonic pairs where the orthography was never updated due to the obsoletion of a word “row = fight.”
13. The first silent “e” lengthens the “o” in a word of English origin, the second silent “e” causes the “s” to be pronounced [z] in a word of French origin.
14. same as 9, except the ablaut changes the pronunciation of “do.”
15. The first is a corruption of a diphthong, the second is also the corruption of a diphthong, they just changed differently because one changed in isolation form the -er ending. If you remember which one originally has the -er ending, it clears up.
16. One diphthong was retained, and one was corrupted. This likely has something to do with one being a noun, the other a verb (it really can make a difference).
17. I believe we dropped a silent “e” off of the second one (winde), but I’m not sure.
18. We lost the pronunciation of final voiced bilabial plosives following bilabial nasals, adding an ending doesn’t change this loss as it might in, say, French. Similar to 15
19. One is a corruption of the Latin (AE), the other is a vowel lengthening (related to Greek).
20. same as 2
21. One is a corruption of a Greek verb ending, the other is simply how a word is pronounced. This one is difficult.
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Oh, English is still really freaking difficult. This was just fun to post!
God Bless!
PTQTAD
