Linguistics, the queen of the sciences,
Pretends to adhere to alliances
With psychology, sure!,
And its public allure,
But don’t ask what its gauge of compliance is.
—H. Stephen Straight
A title, seen browsing my interest
In languages ancienter than the rest,
That called Punic Q-Celtic
And Palaic Kartvelic
I judged thus: “Farrago delenda est!”
—Pumptilian Perniquity
The reduction of vowels has caused vicious wars,
Or is viewed as just warmed-over vichyssoise.
But your everyday linguist
Who’s not a rank jingoist
Has a relish and zest for delicious schwas.
—Hester Fester-Münsterfenster
A linguist of uncommon girth
Was known for his infectious mirth
At the height of a thrill
He’d make a nasal ingressive trill
And make plosives for all he was worth.
—Col. O. Nihilist
Prosodic terminology
Works well in Greek, in English not.
A dactyl’s just a digit, see:
Prosodic terminology
Binds feet to fingers—trochees we
Can see are toes, so thanks a lot,
Prosodic terminology!
Works well in Greek, in English not.
—Недостаточно Денег
Syntax seminar—
Speaker drones while free food staves
Off hunger, scurvy
—Lauren Ipsum
