Linguist, Skeletor fan.

Cambridge, UK
Joined September 2012
apparently made by someone who has the [dæʃənd] pronunciation of <dachshund>...
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british friends: which of the following do you use?
25%punch bag
50%punching bag
0%both
25%neither
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which of the following would you use to refer to the night before the present day?
71%only "last night"
7%only "yesterday night"
21%both sound fine to me
0%neither sounds ok to me
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please check out episode 7 of fruit wars and suggest a new character in the comments at the end! Ru put a lot of time into the animation. youtube.com/watch?v=zMcm9SrJ…
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check out my newest music video, featuring the spice girls, michael jackson, and buck rogers: youtube.com/watch?v=u9CfjFEp…
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a music video excerpt I made combining The Human League and Billy Squier: youtube.com/watch?v=RreeD9Hj…
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a music video i made in tribute to james brown: youtube.com/watch?v=y29tThSh…
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check out the newest episode of Fruit Wars! And be sure to vote in the comments (on youtube) for which character should be ejected next! youtube.com/watch?v=INqzQ179…
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How do you pronounce Adrian Zmed's surname?
85%one syllable, [zmɛd]
5%two syllables, [zəmɛd]
10%other
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Our student Núria is running a linguistics experiment--if you're a native speaker of English, would you mind taking it? Link to participate: research.sc/participant/logi…
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what is the new Gormley take on Alan Turing in King's College?
8%a statue
58%a sculpture
25%both
8%neither
12 votes • Final results
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which of the following semantic elements are part of your personal definition of the word "statue"?
38%animate subject
38%representational
15%for public display
8%life-size or bigger
13 votes • Final results
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which of the following semantic elements are part of your personal definition of the word "sculpture"?
85%sculpted or carved
15%made from a single thing
0%non-representational
0%animate or inanimate
13 votes • Final results
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My student Jeriel is running a quick syntactic/semantic study of word formation for his undergraduate dissertation. Would you be willing to fill it out for him? It should only take a few minutes, and I found it quite thought-provoking! allocate.monster/WFORRMWJ
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another dalle3 creation
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I asked dalle3 to create a daguerrotype of an armenian woman in erevan in 1865, and think it did pretty well, if you ignore the soviet-era building on the right!
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