Comments on: Linguistics can be useful! http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/linguistics/useful-linguistics/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:17:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/linguistics/useful-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-7180 Adam Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:45:38 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=3972#comment-7180 It was funny because it was 'short for Kate'. If he'd asked me, I could have saved him a lot of time and effort. It was funny because it was ‘short for Kate’.

If he’d asked me, I could have saved him a lot of time and effort.

]]> By: Alex Case http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/linguistics/useful-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-7176 Alex Case Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:25:02 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=3972#comment-7176 Hugh definitely isn't as funny, Rowan Atkinson or no Hugh definitely isn’t as funny, Rowan Atkinson or no

]]> By: Sandy http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/linguistics/useful-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-7174 Sandy Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:16:24 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=3972#comment-7174 "an interesting phonological analysis " you call it, ALex? Oh no, it was David Crystal who said that. And this "if I were a scriptwriter, and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man" business - nothing more than a slap on his own back, is it? Doesn't he have anything better to do with his time than come up with all this junk?! Actually, I can think of plenty of unsuitable men's names for women - Ted, Sid, Ron ... Hugh, Percy. It's easy, innit - who's he trying to kid, the old bugger?! “an interesting phonological analysis ” you call it, ALex? Oh no, it was David Crystal who said that. And this “if I were a scriptwriter, and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man” business – nothing more than a slap on his own back, is it?

Doesn’t he have anything better to do with his time than come up with all this junk?! Actually, I can think of plenty of unsuitable men’s names for women – Ted, Sid, Ron … Hugh, Percy. It’s easy, innit – who’s he trying to kid, the old bugger?!

]]> By: Darren Elliott http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/linguistics/useful-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-7172 Darren Elliott Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:11:58 +0000 http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=3972#comment-7172 Yeah, very clever. But isn't Rowan Atkinson just really good at being funny? Yeah, very clever. But isn’t Rowan Atkinson just really good at being funny?

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