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Handy Definitions for Newcomers to the Field of Linguistics

Translated from the Original Sanskrit
by Ken Miner and David J. Peterson

back-formation: lumbar exercises

circumfix: unhealthy fascination with circuses; a cross inside a circle

copula: when two people love each other very much...

dative: adjective describing two people in a relationship

diphthong: not quite skinny dipping, but a thong doesn’t cover that much...

dissimilation: not being truthful

elative case: a joyful attache

high vowel: a vowel used in Bavaria; a vowel with an ancestry

isogloss: shiny cake frosting

linguist: someone who speaks a lot of languages

low vowel: any Dutch vowel; a vowel of dubious background

metathesis: not properly a thesis, but an unprepared grad student will try to convince you it is

minimal pair: me and my shadow

morphology: remedy for insufficient phology

OT: overtime

parataxis: two taxis

parole: when you get out of prison early

progressive assimilation: trying to be like Michael Moore

relativizer: a wedding

rhoticity: the art of roasting chickens

rime: a pretentious poem

rounding: over-indulgence in cashews

tag question: “Who’s ‘It’?”

transcription: US Army’s new policy that allows them to draft citizens of other countries into service

voicing: what you do when you slam the door on your foot

On the Two Main Types of Computational Linguists—J. Random Linguist
New Methods in Linguistic Laboratory Acquisition—Anthesteria Dionysia
Collateral Descendant of Lingua Pranca Contents