awesomelyanon:

Funny professor quotes, now linguistics themed:

“You can walk a goat but you cannot walk this noun”

“It’s not a person, it’s not a place, so it better be a thing or I won’t know how to classify the world and I will be scared”

“You can try to read it, but I have a PHD and reading it made me want to die”

“Can I be goating in the field? No.”

“Imperatives are weird, if I don’t know how they work, you certainly won’t”

“I don’t want it in your hearts I want it in your minds”

“People make noises all the time that aren’t sentences”

“We’re baking a delicious syntax cake”

“Yoda does constituency tests for fun”

“This is a triangle of laziness and this is the triangle of ignorance”

“You can’t utter an infinite sentence because you’ll die someday”

“I will call this sentence 1 and this one sentence b)”

“Should the professor steal the book? … Yes, books are expensive”

“There are many devourable things in the world, mostly nouns”