*Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder why you are
Placed beside this sentence here,
Saying it should not appear.
—Pete Bleackley
The daily routine keeps me busy:
For Linguimericks I’m too dizzy!
Good verse is inspired,
But, alas, I’m too tired,
So I haven’t the time or energy to finish the last line.
—Dr. Whom
A linguistic crank prone to carrying
Out work that his bêtes noires are burying
Constructed from Krumen,
Tartessian, and Chuvan
Libero-Ibero-Siberian.
—Hester Fester-Münsterfenster
Displaying high fieldwork ability
Won’t make for domestic tranquility.
For asking to tell you
“I hit you” or “Kill you”
Gets not speech but concrete transitivity.
—Недостаточно Денег
Twinkle twinkle little star
Illuminating from afar
The changes in a form or word
We haven’t seen but just inferred.
—Pumptilian Perniquity
In the physics department their closets
Are bigger than our chairman’s office.
But the reasons for this
Aren’t so mysterious—
Their department produces more profits.
—Morris Swadesh III
O rue the day I god a cold
It mugged up all my day-dah
My dendal sounds are now {+voice}
And my throat is all Darb Bader.
—Vi va Voce
E
is for Every clarification you ask of me
D is your Dedication that is plain to see
I is for the way your queries Interrupt the writing flow
T is for the Tyranny that your stylesheets do bestow
O is for Oh so many! ways you plussed my work today.
R is for the royalties I am so glad you pay.
—Col. O. Nihilist
