15 Works in Linguistics
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The literal translation of both hydrophobia and aquaphobia is “fear of water”, but in actual usage they mean two entirely different things. I’ll let Porthos explain (with a little help from Hoshi).
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In the Forest of the Syntax Trees by Villainyandgoodcheekbones
Les Misérables - All Media Types
14 Mar 2013
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These are the things that Jean Prouvaire knows:
Poetry is art.
There is no such thing as wrong art. Art has no obligation to “mean” any one thing.
He knows that though lovers be lost, love shall not and that villanelles are harder to write than people think they are.
He knows the unfinished commentary in front of him is due tomorrow, and that death shall have no dominion beneath the windings of the sea.
He knows, most of all, that “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is absolute, undiluted, unadulterated bullshit.
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Even linguists don't know everything there is to know about language.
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- Part 3 of 30-300
- Words:
- 300
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 10
- Hits:
- 242
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Ziva watches, Ziva thinks
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- Part 5 of Wake Up Call
- Words:
- 2,744
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
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- 244
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There's a cult catching on like wildfire and a virus breaking down the human mind, person by person. Loki has a plan to fight it, but his reasons, and his interests, remain his own.
A retelling of Sumerian mythology, with Loki playing the role of Enki in the re-splintering of human culture. Contains pseudo-mpreg, and intersexed Loki.
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An emerging artificial sentience teaches herself SCIENCE through a variety of media.
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we are etymologies, words crumbling / and reforming, morph by morph, into scaffolds of syntax, the skeleton / of a lexicon rebuilt.
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Mollya learns to talk to her crewmates.
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Daniel's working at home, and one thing leads to another.
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Jean and Scott spend two Christmas Eves together.
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Linguistics 101; or, Thirteen Ways To Say "I Love You" by Raven (singlecrow)
Star Trek (2009)
20 Dec 2009
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Vulcan and human cultural differences.
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In Uhura's first year at the Academy, she wrote a paper on Adhine, a minority language of Vulcan.
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The syllables of Kryptonian sound strange in a human's throat.
- Words:
- 100
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 4
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- 157
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School of Lost Souls by Alixtii for voleuse
Firefly, Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, R. Tam Sessions
28 Nov 2005
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Knowledge without a soul can be a very dangerous thing.
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Lisa dreams of being left alone until a girl who is alone walks into her dreams.
This story was originally written and posted in 2001 and has not been edited since then.
- Words:
- 27,690
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 53