02 November 2009 @ 04:14 pm
generative grammar can go to hell  
AHAHA so that was like the worst midterm I've ever written. I even felt the need to text lacunaz about it because I feel like, as a linguistics student, she might understand. Possibly she looked at her phone and went "who the hell?" but... worth it. I'm trying to counteract the fail right now by doing the phonology assignment I have due Thursday, and let's be honest, I am rocking it. I'm even kind of having fun. Apparently I really enjoy the brain-teaser aspect of working out morphological/phonological rules and patterns in a data set. It reminds me of those "MARY IS TALLER THAN JOHN BUT SHORTER THAN PETER" things you used to have to do in like middleschool. I always liked those.

Also, it was warm enough today that I walked home from the bus stop -- which is like a 10, 15 minute walk -- without a coat. IN NOVEMBER. This may never happen again so I feel the need to document it.

Ummm that was all quite boring, so here is a relatively boring meme!

Post a list of 10 television shows you watch or have watched. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each show. When someone guesses your favourite character, bold the title. When guessed, tell us why you like that character. I should maybe note that no one is doing the "tell us why you like them" thing so I reserve the right not to. Also, for most of these picking a favourite involved thinking really hard.

1. Arrested Development -- Buster, as guessed by rose_dawson
2. The Office - Kelly Kapoor, as guessed by bazcat89
3. Scrubs -- Turk, as guessed by lacunaz
4. How I Met Your Mother -- MARSHALL, as guessed by noblealice
5. Doctor Who -- evidently I can't pick between two, so bazcat89 & rattus_aerius get a point for Cloen and I'm going to say there's a second acceptable answer as well and noblealice gets a point for Donna Noble
6. Summer Heights High -- Ja'mie King, as guessed by bazcat89
7. The Big Bang Theory -- Raj, guessed by erethesunrises
8. Torchwood -- Toshiko Sato, as guessed by bazcat89

That is all. I don't watch enough tv.

ALSO, OH MY GOD:







I said before it looked like Sims. I lied. The Sims has better graphics. Shit, it makes The Infinite Quest look like an animated masterpiece.
 
 
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Kali: dw :: ten/rose :: calling me back_thirty2flavors on November 3rd, 2009 12:21 am (UTC)
I feel like he probably had little to no choice in the manner.

At last they never wrangled him onto Torchwood. That will always crack me up.
Sarah Catherine: sparklepireelirrina on November 3rd, 2009 02:25 am (UTC)
If he had shown up on Torchwood... I'm not even sure what would have happened. The Doctor probably would have given up on the human race or something, right then and there, LOL. I guess Jack would be all excited, and follow the Doctor around like, "Look what I've done!!! I've made it better !!!1!" And the Doctor would glare at him and/or ignore everyone except the pteradactyl.
Kali: tw :: as you wish_thirty2flavors on November 3rd, 2009 02:40 am (UTC)
Jack would definitely be all excited, in a "LOOK DAD NO HANDS :D :D :D" kind of way, and the Doctor would just be horrified by everything.