Languages Will Make Rules And Then Be Like. Actually Nah

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erika’s film diary → arrival (2016) dir. denis villeneuve

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Linguistics at Cambridge

The best part of any class that deals with phonetics/phonology/morphology is watching everybody carefully, silently, repeatedly mouthing every sound the instructor brings up, like:

Instructor: [is talking about schwa]

The entire class, every time:

I know it's been a while but I fixed Jalo's phonology and orthography.

“We need to make sure that they understand the difference between a weapon and a tool. Language is messy and sometimes one can be both.” 

-Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Arrival (2016) Denis Villeneuve