SMBC Comics Forum

ChooChooTrain wrote:Linguistics sounds complicated as hell.

That's right, there's a gigantic science lying right underneath your vision, and it has no practical consequence to your day-to-day living*. It makes me feel somewhat proud.

*The three most useful things we do are 1. translating (I only know English), 2. computer science (I don't know anything about computer science), and 3. speech pathology (which is its own program). Hurray! I contribute nothing!

Don't say that! You may one day help me fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a fluent speaker of Linear A!
Computational Linguistics seems pretty sweet, but all I know about the field, I learned from Dinosaur Comics.

Doubtful, there is no phonological data on Linear A, and we still lack the data to decipher it with any accuracy. Moreover I can't imagine what one would DO with it, though I guess that's funny coming from someone who studies this for no reason.

Oldrac the Chitinous wrote:Don't say that! You may one day help me fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a fluent speaker of Linear A!
Computational Linguistics seems pretty sweet, but all I know about the field, I learned from Dinosaur Comics.

Linear A is awesome.

That's linear B, which HAS been deciphered. GAWD.

LordRetard wrote:That's linear B, which HAS been deciphered. GAWD.

I know.

It even says Linear B at the bottom.

I was saying Linear A was awesome, and I was posting a picture of Linear B, because that one has been deciphered. Calm yourself.

You all think you're so cunning.

mountainmage wrote:You all think you're so cunning.

I'd like to cunning all over you.

CasualFriday wrote:

mountainmage wrote:You all think you're so cunning.

I'd like to cunning all over you.

That's pretty gay.

astasia wrote:

CasualFriday wrote:

mountainmage wrote:You all think you're so cunning.

I'd like to cunning all over you.

That's pretty gay.

THE POT CALLETH THE KETTLE BLACKETH?

And NO I WILL NOT CALM MYSELF.

Well, she would know, right?

Oh wait cunning linguist I JUST GOT THAT.

EDIT: Only because I was moments away from making the same joke.

For someone taking so many courses on language, you forgot the most important type of phrase. The pun.

mountainmage wrote:For someone taking so many courses on language, you forgot the most important type of phrase. The pun.

It's also the most retarded, which he claims to be an expert on.

Hey! Puns aren't retarded. Stop trying to derail my joke!