There really needs to be a channel on TV just replaying all of the clips of Michelle Obama’s expert shade. I’d pay for a subscription.

Thank you. I am in a much better place now, but it never hurts to hear kind words like yours. Right back at you. <3

Thank you for sharing that. It’s similar to my experience. I’ve never told my family about my assault or my suicidal tendencies that resulted from them years after the fact. I’ve told my sibling, but I won’t divulge the identity of my attacker because I’m afraid my sibling would try to hurt them, which I don’t want. I…

I miss it so much. I just went over to that article and cackled for 20 minutes straight.

Even thermoses?

I didn’t think I was starting anything, but ok. It was a bit of a brag I guess but I was speaking from personal experience and applying to OP’s topic, which is how a lot of internet comments are formed. I’ll try not to do that next time?

you shouldn’t get married unless you want things (and the person you’re marrying) to pretty much stay the same

I mean, they don’t necessarily all sound great, but yes, she can hit those notes. I ~technically~ have a 3.5 octave range, but about 1.5 of those sound horrible. Which proves just because you can hit a note does not mean you should.

I’ve been rewatching Parks & Rec and there are so many parallels between Hillary and Leslie. It’s like they knew this was gonna happen.

Oh, fuck. Donald Trump is proof for MRAs that negging works. GREAT.

Reign actually handled the aftermath of Mary’s rape a lot better than most shows do. Much of the rest of that season was focused on Mary’s PTSD. On other shows such as game of thrones it’s like rape happens and then that’s it, they don’t show how the character is affected by it at all (Cersei, Danaerys, others I can’t…

And somehow, she is the golddigger, according to the internet.

“is” was good. The verb always agrees with the subject never the object (exception: there is/there are) even when it sounds totally weird and not right.

ETA: Just realized making “thing” “things” would have solved all of this. Now I feel dumb and wish I could delete my comment but I can’t. Anyway, hope you enjoyed your…

Same! O frabjous day!

I will hazard a guess and say the OP is either not a linguist or shitty one.

Oh man, there are too many to pick a favorite. But one I recently really liked was this, because it hit really close to home for me:

Morphology refers word formation in general, so I think it’s appropriate to include it under lexical items. All words are made up of morphemes. Some morphemes can signal case.

I’m psyched to find another linguist in these comments. I’m not sure where I stand with your original post about written language not being a language, but signed languages surely can be languages in their own right, not just representations of another language. If we couldn’t communicate via speech, we would use…

All languages have syntax and morphology (lexical items). That’s what makes a language a language.

Not the OP but right now I’m reading “Native Tongue” by Suzette Haden Elgin and I’d recommend it.