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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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Dec
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answered Term for people who don't joke at all
Dec
20
comment 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. :)
Dec
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comment Feeling of losing one's love
....And this is often used as the adjective "brokenhearted."
Nov
21
comment 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.
Nov
20
answered Synonyms for “to place on top of”
Oct
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revised What is a good way to refer to stories that are meant for adults?
Unshelved answers no longer exists.
Aug
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comment 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...
Aug
21
answered Word for not being happy with something but having to be satisfied with it
Aug
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comment 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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comment How many syllables are there in the word “fire”?
This is irrelevant, but wouldn't "tetraphthong" make more sense...?
Jul
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comment 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...
Jul
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comment 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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comment 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)