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| location | United States | |
| age | 20 | |
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Now majoring in math, linguistics, and Asian studies, with a concentration in Japanese, at University of Tennessee, with minors in English, German, history, and computer science.
I read a lot, and all over the place, content-wise. I also have a bad tendency to use German grammar in my English writing...which actually works pretty well for me.
It's not my fault I was only formally exposed to grammar when I started learning German.
Calculus is totally sexy, and I would probably marry Gottfried Leibnitz if he were still alive. And just to cement my awesome dorkiness to the world: I decided I wanted to study linguistics after I read The Lord of the Rings and found out Tolkien was a philologist. That was the only reason I ever went on a language kick. Before that I was an art/history nerd, with emphasis on the art. Who knows why?
Fate is inexorable.
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Aug 26 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Aug 5 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jun 8 |
awarded | Constituent |
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Jun 8 |
awarded | Caucus |
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May 22 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Dec 20 |
answered | Term for people who don't joke at all |
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Dec 20 |
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Term for people who don't joke at all I am pretty puritanical, and I shall have you know that I love slapstick and puns. Seriously. I drive people crazy with some of the weird/dumb stuff I come up with. Also: animal noises are always funny. So, I have to say I think your intuition is not too reliable in this case. :) |
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Dec 2 |
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Feeling of losing one's love ....And this is often used as the adjective "brokenhearted." |
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Nov 21 |
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What emotions do :3 and :S convey? :S in my experience is supposed to be like Charlie Brown's face when the mouth is just a squiggly line. It can mean confusion, embarrassment, or being at a loss for words, or some combination of them. |
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Nov 20 |
answered | Synonyms for “to place on top of” |
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Oct 26 |
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What is a good way to refer to stories that are meant for adults? Unshelved answers no longer exists. |
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Aug 21 |
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How and why have some words changed to a complete opposite? I find this amusing because "nice" is another adjective whose meaning has changed dramatically... |
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Aug 21 |
answered | Word for not being happy with something but having to be satisfied with it |
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Aug 13 |
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Where can I find a list of common padding words? I keep catching myself using "apparently." It's really annoying, even to myself...Curse you filler words!!! |
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Aug 6 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 29 |
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How many syllables are there in the word “fire”? This is irrelevant, but wouldn't "tetraphthong" make more sense...? |
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Jul 29 |
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Since “Jap” is a racist/derogatory word, what's an appropriate short form for Japanese/the Japanese language? @pacerier I don't think www.learnjapanese.com is long at all either. If anything, I'd say www.jastop.com is too short. By looking at it, I don't know what it means, and probably wouldn't trust it. I'm not a "computer person," though. I just use the internet a lot. Generally speaking, people aren't going to be impressed or engaged by shorter words, but the RIGHT words. In this case, I think "Japanese" is just the right word... |
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Jul 18 |
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Looking for a better term than 'benign envy' or 'mudita' ...Would an exclamation like "Yay!," "That's amazing!," "Nice!," etc. be too informal? They're versatile, but, in my experience, they rarely have a negative connotation...That said, I'm tactless and don't tend to say much, so I have lower standards with this sort of thing...:) |
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Jul 17 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jul 13 |
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Pronunciation of “especially” @Regdwight Haha, yeah. This one just caught me off guard because I'd never seen/heard it before and because I've been learning words from books years before I heard them for quite some time. Still, that comment is pretty empty-headed in retrospect. I should probably get out more. X) |