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Posts tagged with “cunning linguistics

1 week ago
..and I am fluent in each of them.

..and I am fluent in each of them.

1 month ago
A joyously juicy
simile from Lucy.

A joyously juicy

simile from Lucy.

1 month ago

Class-turbation

rufflebutts:

I am also thinking of a dictionary of kinds of masturbation:

Sassturbation: with attitude!

Lasturbation: before lent

Pasturbation: to vintage porn

Casturbation: with a broken arm

Disasturbation: when you’re interrupted by a sudden natural disaster

Jazzturbation: when you put on a Miles Davis record

3 months ago
I find that I get sort of a linguistic erection sometimes. Just words… what they can do, what you can do with them, and what they can do to each other.

» Seth MacFarlane as Family Guy’s Stewie Griffin on Inside the Actor’s Studio (via libraryland)

4 months ago

asunburntcountry:

How much ‘Australiana’ can a Koala bear?

What a ripper retro video! This extended play on words was a huge hit for its creator (Austen Tayshus) and many of the phrases have since become part of our language.



“Well Bill said he’d like a smoke. Nobody knew where the dope was stashed. I said “I think Merinos.” But I was just spinning a bit of a yarn. Barry pulls a joint out of his pocket. Bill says “Great, Barrier Reefer, what is it mate?” “Noosa Heads of course. Me mate Adelaide ‘em on me.” And it was a great joint too, Blue Mountains away and his Three Sisters.”


The full ‘lyrics’ and explanation translations can be seen here: http://justin.com.au/oz/australiana/

2 years ago

The Longest Words in the English Language

I’m exhausted.
I’ve just had a three minutes and sixteen seconds wordgasm.

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