Each knot has two smaller and one bigger child knot? That’s queer

You’re welcome

If that’s a binary tree, what do non-binary trees look like?

Both

“Shit, that was today?”

Well the defense was clearly not holding very long so…

Thanks. I needed that.

gø for it! No one holds you bæck

“Dress for the job you want, not the one you have”

Maybe it’s a Germany thing because we have Ä and Ö too, but IKEA in Germany has products like “Bjørn”

inDEANd

Ok, true. In the scientific context it’s good to know many definitions and know which one to apply in a given situation. But it’s not that the overall opinion of a linguist as a person. It’s rather than you learn not to take any of them, including your intuition, too seriously if that makes sense.

I’ll put the book on my reading list! I barely do any linguistics since university and it might be fun reading again. Thanks!

They would call it “Værmis” to sound more Scandinavian even though swedish uses ä and ö

It’s ich_iel (ich im echten Leben, which is the literal translation of me in real life)

And no, this isn’t German. Too few vowels. It’s Czech or Slovak

I would argue that a definition is only as good as it explains (native) speakers’ intuition. So I would expect linguists to change their mind about what a word is as little as biologists to change their heart beat after an autonomy class.

Cool story though! Part of me wishes to learn all these theories, too. This is so niche and nerdy and useless that it sounds like a lot of fun!

That only moves the question to what a thought is. Also: why only written language? Aren’t there spoken or signed words?

Still better than Changnesia

Me when “small government” supporters don’t start by defunding the police

What if he wore pants?

Yes, I heard that in Australia, January is in summer so it makes sense that June is in winter