We are almost all quite familiar with the game commonly known as Rock-
Rock breaks Scissors and
Scissors cut Paper, but
Paper covers Rock
Despite the real-
From the audience: “I have a fuzzy question.”
From the podium: “A fuzzy question, very good. The answer is yes.”
It has come to my attention that the game has had a recent resurgence in popularity, in no small part due to a variant called, straightforwardly enough, Rock-
Clearly, anything related to Star Trek (and thus to a Spock), is beneath the dignity of a real linguist. However, the novelty of an enhanced version of Rochambeau is undeniable. So that linguists may enjoy such while avoiding the taint of Star Trek, I present the following linguistics-
Rock breaks Scissors
Scissors cannot hear Nasal-Ingressive Voiceless Velar Trill
Nasal-Ingressive Voiceless Velar Trill mocks Computational Linguist
Computational Linguist reverse engineers algorithms from Paper
Paper covers Rock
Rock gives a concussion to Computational Linguist
Computational Linguist runs with Scissors
Scissors cut Paper
Paper questions phonemicity of Nasal-Ingressive Voiceless Velar Trill
Nasal-Ingressive Voiceless Velar Trill snorts Rock
Scissors stab Chomsky
Paper refutes theories of Chomsky
Rock bludgeons Chomsky
Computational Linguist writes a very small shell script to replace Chomsky
Nasal-Ingressive Voiceless Velar Trill chokes Chomsky
Appropriate hand shapes for Computational Linguist and Nasal-