Linguimerick Centenary—Book १०० SpecGram Vol CXCIV, No 2 Contents Welsh Playwright Writes a Play That Plays It Right—Homer Ffoni and Chaim O’Vunny

Overheard* in the Linguistics Student Lounge

Chesterton “Chico” Wilburfors Gilchrist, IV
Grad Student Union Steward, United Linguistics Workers**
Fourth-Year Grad Student, Dept. of Lexicology and Glottometrics
Devonshire-upon-Glencullen University, Southampton

All names have been changed to protect the guilty innocent.

Jargonisation: The Verb said, “Would you like to conjugate?” The Noun replied, “I decline.”
Preterite: Sensible. He could have ended up with a nasty inflection.
Jargonisation: I was hoping it would set the mood.
Linguistically: That is an important aspect of these sorts of interactions.
Jargonisation: It’s all about not being passive.
Linguistically: That’s just a subjunctive opinion.
Preterite: Some people might object to that, but I don’t want to be accusative.
MilkCaramel: You guys keep expanding the scope of discussion to anything about verbs. Haven’t you learned by now that verbal augments are archaic?
Transitively: Oi! Stop standing around with your deixis in your hand and get back to work!

More to come...


* My Grandpapá—Chesterton Wilburfors Gilchrist, Jr., of “Reanalysis of Spanish by Naïve Linguists” fame—impressed upon me from an early age the potentially career-making value of eavesdropping serendipitous fieldwork. As I am not—yet!—the eavesdropper serendipitous fieldworker my Grandpapá is, and I don’t—yet!—have his ear for finding meaningfully meaningful meaning in overheard conversations, I will keep publishing the data of my informants until I, too, make an important contribution to linguistics!

** This Research is gratefully sponsored by the ULŋW Local #1729.

Linguimerick Centenary—Book १००
Welsh Playwright Writes a Play That Plays It Right—Homer Ffoni and Chaim O’Vunny
SpecGram Vol CXCIV, No 2 Contents