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Overheard* in the Linguistics Student Lounge

Chesterton “The Jesterton” 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.

Act I

MilkCaramel: Yeah well, in Mongolian “adverbs” are just adjectives, instrumental cases of nouns, or conjunctive (non-final) verb forms, so they’re doing just fine.
Preterite: Actually, one of the tactics that the French used to foment rebellion amongst the colonists was to start a rumour that George III wished to merge adverbs with adjectives, in line with German practice.

Act II

Preterite: The spelling reformer was recognisable by his fish beard.
Transitively: Ugh.. that one took a little too long for me to get.. but then it hit me like a tuna bricks.

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.

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