æʃliŋ, ring racers purropawgandist @aescling@cat.family

@vaporeon_ the chomskyans (chomsky was american) believe that the underlying mechanics of language are universal to humankind and thus do not see an issue necessarily with focusing their work on english. this is a controversial position within the field though

@vaporeon_ incidentally i did briefly try to read a textbook on anglo-saxon in, like, high school

@vaporeon_ i only bits and bobs mostly because of etymology. i did study linguistics, actually, but i was boring and almost entirely studied things in modern english. (my other language of interest is classical latin, which is.... niche..... fur actual linguistics work)

@vaporeon_ @onfy anglo-saxon (aka “old english”) had gendered terms catt and catte, male and female, respectively

@vaporeon_ it is fairly dragonesque too, knowing moves like dragon tail, and being in the dragon egg group. which makes me hotter

@vaporeon_ yeah

@vaporeon_ oh shit that’s a cute sounding way to refur to cats

@vaporeon_ :3

@coriander destroying the entire earth. my favorite kind of shenanigan

@coriander wow i didn’t realize shadow the hedgehog was a stem major

@wallhackio you can’t tell me what to do!! 🔪🔪🖕

@wallhackio miles “wooper” prower

@amy @monorail that’s because because glaceon is cute :3

@monorail on an unrelated note that glaceon sprite is very cute

@vaporeon_ yeah i was considering replying “keming” but i wasn’t sure ​ would get that

@vaporeon_ has ​heard of the term kerning

@kit apparently bots have a huge purroblem these days