I’ll ask ’er—Alaska. porthole—poor toll
The waiter cut it—the way to cut it.
On the golf course of linguistics
Phonology does meet syntax.
There’s no other way to putt it.
—Holy Nwon
my CKY EXE file’d
be OK but it’s been late for a while
to parse little v
its big O’s ℵ3
I hope earley.c will compile
—Andrew Lamont
Pozzo arrive, et il dit
D’une voix si terrible, ‘Je suis
Pozzo’. Je pense
Que je ne suis pas le sens:
Je ne suis pas, helas, si Lucky.
—Samuett Beckel
This essay I worked on all night
Will be proof of my linguistic might.
I know in my guts
Since the lecturer puts
A star next to all that I write.
—Pete Bleackley
So many things self-define
Like the circle, or pi, the straight line.
But not in linguistics
We’re stuck on the basics
Like what’s a Saussurean sign.
—Stu Qondh, Bei Sziks
Dub-a-dunk. Dub-a-dunk. Dub-a-dunk.
At the copier, I pray like a monk
To librarian gods
That, against all the odds,
This here article isn’t just junk,
And it ends my scholarly funk.
But I feel like a fraud—
Treading ground that’s well-trod—
Writing a thesis that’s nothing but bunk!
Dub-a-dunk. Dub-a-dunk. Dub-a-dunk.
—α-Betty Abū Gida
When Latin was slowly becoming V1 of français
They stopped eating pasta and started to dine on pâté;
They had fêtes and not festas on the côte or out in the forêt
In août, in a château: they partied the circumflex way.
‘Why do some lexemes lack it?’ we ask, for an extra étoile.
The answer: Go back to the circumflex accent école.
—Étienne Dolet
Consider now Welsh soft mutation,
Consonant-first variation:
Eight sounds transpose
But who knows where ⟨g⟩ goes?
It’s a morphophon-nullification.
—Kim Rhaig
