Getting-to-know-you-game: JOIN OR DIE

[icklebrina]

With you, me, and icklebrina we'll have a small gang of present and past Ling majors going soon. Do you have any study interests? I'm currently prepping for graduate studies in CompLing, so I'm a bit of a sucker for the generative stuff (though I still get horrific flashbacks from my last year of Syntax).

I've recently been more on the TESOL side of things and less on the Ling side of things, but have been thinking of doing grad studies and CompLing is one I'm definitely interested in. We never did much on it when I was in school, but I find it fascinating. I'm totally up for any/all ling convos

[Anonymousse]

Here is my own desktop, for any stalkers out there. I think there's one file on there called "Linguistics Homework"...the rest is just Dan and Phil.

Holy Sheet, how do you find anything O_O.
You have a lot interesting folders there.

Mine was cleaned last mid-week, but then i had a lot of homework and GG stuff that came in-between (tho all of my programming homework is nicely in the documents folder, which reminds me how insane my documents folder is ).

https://i.imgur.com/p1fSgYW.png


Oh look the date is BACKWARDS, ahhh! *gasp*

[angrymob]

With you, me, and icklebrina we'll have a small gang of present and past Ling majors going soon. Do you have any study interests? I'm currently prepping for graduate studies in CompLing, so I'm a bit of a sucker for the generative stuff (though I still get horrific flashbacks from my last year of Syntax).

I've recently been more on the TESOL side of things and less on the Ling side of things, but have been thinking of doing grad studies and CompLing is one I'm definitely interested in. We never did much on it when I was in school, but I find it fascinating. I'm totally up for any/all ling convos

We didn't do much in my actual course work on CompLing either, but I got into it through my Honours thesis, where I tested geolocation methods on Twitter by trying to find a link between language style, user relationship, and location. It was a much too ambitious project, so it ended up being a survey and outline for my tests only, but I definitely enjoyed what I got to do, such as mucking around with NTLK (which if you haven't checked out yet, is super useful - nltk.org/book ).

[crushedpop]

Hi!
-i'm extremely socially awkward
-am obsessed with criminology (sue meee idc)
-fav music genre is k-pop ( exo obsession)

[human]

Yessss to IckleMissMayhem for posting mobile desktops too lol, missemma will confirm that every time we meet up I nab her iPhone and iPad and just like to look at what she has installed and ask her why, I'm so bloody weird.

I really ought to move this page of icons to the first screen instead of third,it's my most used stuff. And honestly, the need to have so much stuff available to me quickly is driving me nuts with it's lack of symmetry, I usually need to space out icons of similar colours or I go slowly bonkers but necessity has taken over lately.

[felucca]

I USED to have a really tidy desktop once upon a time (not human tidy, that's a wet dream, but still, tidy and organised and neat and satisfying). Dan and Phil totally ruined that for me lately - I just can't be bothered anymore with plugging in my Deppy harddrive every single time I save something that's got to do with them, I've given up! Yes I bought a separate harddrive just for D&P, shut up they're cheap. And it's VERY organised tyvm icklebrina.

-Heap-loads of shortcuts stacked upon eachother (to make more room?)

I actually had no idea that could happen. But apparently it's what my computer starts doing when the desktop runs out of space and I keep saving things anyway, oops.

What's that dated from my 28th birthday? 26.5.13

Umm....

Congratulations, this picture now represents you as a person.

Look it's my mobile desktop:

Unassaulted by Deppy, but the emails make me want to cry.
(someone please tell me how to make it not show your junkmail )

-... and you still haven't updated to Windows 10 even thought (like me) you have gotten way to many DIFFERENT notifications and reminders on it.

Omg I haaaaate that. Windows 10, more like Windows 10 thousand rejections amirite. I heard there's actually a way you can disable those notifications but I've been too lazy to look into it, story of my life.

Here is my own desktop, for any stalkers out there. I think there's one file on there called "Linguistics Homework"...the rest is just Dan and Phil.

Do I hear the sound of another potential Linguist on the boards? :geek:

I'm a linguistics graduate, cheers guys.

Btw when I uploaded one of the pictures above to Tinypic, I got the Captcha "Captcha in the Rye".

[alittledizzy]

What's that dated from my 28th birthday? 26.5.13

Umm....

Congratulations, this picture now represents you as a person.

I am cackling.

(And how did I manage to click this thread for the first time in a day just in time for the Charlie references? Seriously, I've got radar.)

[human]

felucca, OVER 12K EMAILS? Read some of them!!! Omg. I could go lay face down on my carpet for you right now, really.

[felucca]

NO, human, I absolutely REFUSE to take time out of my day to click these.

It's all just junkmail. Gmail on my computer separates them from my regular emails so I never ever have to see them, but my phone doesn't for some idiotic reason and keeps telling me I should read them, and they're drowning my regular emails so I can't find them (I've heard there's some way to fix this but I'm technologically inept, this is a cry for help)

[DryCereal]

What's that dated from my 28th birthday? 26.5.13

Umm....

Congratulations, this picture now represents you as a person.

I'm not the one with it saved on my computer, but whatevs...
That's what I thought it would say though... :wtf: Anyone know what Dan's (or Phil's, for that matter!) reaction to that was, by any chance?!

NO, human, I absolutely REFUSE to take time out of my day to click these.

It's all just junkmail. Gmail on my computer separates them from my regular emails so I never ever have to see them, but my phone doesn't for some idiotic reason and keeps telling me I should read them, and they're drowning my regular emails so I can't find them (I've heard there's some way to fix this but I'm technologically inept, this is a cry for help)

I'd have thought there'd be a setting in your YT account for email notifications that would allow you to turn them off... If not, I have no clue.

[human]

felucca, the Gmail app might be a bit friendlier? The mail app is a bit pants tbh I never use it. Prefer to have separate apps for my Gmail and my Hotmail (that I use for work and Uni) than use the built in app.

Randomly, I wish I could delete those stupid hints and find a friend Apple apps, never use them, and stocks. They go into my "nope" folder, hidden from view forever.

[kusunoki masashige]

What's that dated from my 28th birthday? 26.5.13

Umm....

Congratulations, this picture now represents you as a person.

I'm not the one with it saved on my computer, but whatevs...
That's what I thought it would say though... :wtf: Anyone know what Dan's (or Phil's, for that matter!) reaction to that was, by any chance?!

Didn't Phil finally unfollow him after this one?

[felucca]

human oh yeah I really should turn off Youtube notifications, more than half of those 12k are from them, maybe I will right now. Still getting loads of junkmail from other sources though, oh well.

Umm....

Congratulations, this picture now represents you as a person.

I'm not the one with it saved on my computer, but whatevs...
That's what I thought it would say though... :wtf: Anyone know what Dan's (or Phil's, for that matter!) reaction to that was, by any chance?!

Didn't Phil finally unfollow him after this one?

I thought so too, but Phil didn't actually unfollow Charlie until January 2014.

So idk. Ignoring him, I guess.

[oqua]

With you, me, and icklebrina we'll have a small gang of present and past Ling majors going soon. Do you have any study interests? I'm currently prepping for graduate studies in CompLing, so I'm a bit of a sucker for the generative stuff (though I still get horrific flashbacks from my last year of Syntax).

I've recently been more on the TESOL side of things and less on the Ling side of things, but have been thinking of doing grad studies and CompLing is one I'm definitely interested in. We never did much on it when I was in school, but I find it fascinating. I'm totally up for any/all ling convos

We didn't do much in my actual course work on CompLing either, but I got into it through my Honours thesis, where I tested geolocation methods on Twitter by trying to find a link between language style, user relationship, and location. It was a much too ambitious project, so it ended up being a survey and outline for my tests only, but I definitely enjoyed what I got to do, such as mucking around with NTLK (which if you haven't checked out yet, is super useful - nltk.org/book ).

I'm a linguistics graduate, cheers guys.

Yay, linguists unite! haha

I'm minoring in French and I ultimately want to go into translation. I don't have a concentration in linguistics or anything; I think pretty much every branch of it is fascinating. I guess I'm a bit partial to phonetics/phonology/morphology though.

Also, I rewatched Phil's first video on its ten-year anniversary and he FREAKING TALKS ABOUT LINGUISTICS. After all the time I've spent complaining that he never mentions it, you'd think I should be aware that he mentions it in his very first video (and then never again lol).

:23
"Today. What have I been doing today? I’ve been doing my exam, which has been the most boring thing ever. Er, I’ll read you a question just to show you how terrible it is. Er, ‘Provide an orthographic and an allophonic transcription of the word/phrase in which the phenomena occurs in progressive place assimilation and regressive voicing assimilation.’ Excitement. Anyway…”

And…here’s my phone:

It’s in French because I’m making an effort to improve my French.
Can you tell that I sometimes ignore text messages I’m so antisocial. Also I never update my apps, go through my junk mail, or delete my phone messages. Sigh

[arwen]

Ayy, we're fellow Swedes, Felucca!

*onödigt exalterad*

That's so cool you worked on the ESC, jealous. what did u doooo

Haha, I was a paid intern - hostess and event security. Zero experience. They basically put me by the red carpet, gave me a walkie talkie and said "keep the press out of the way". I was like, sure, and then I spent the entire time looking for Loreen.

I had an extremely awkward encounter with Martin Rolinski from BWO, omg. I saw him, recognized his face and instantly thought he was a friend of mine (as you do...). I go "wow, what are you doing here?!" and he just glared at me. Two seconds later I realized who he was. hjälp.

I kinda forgot earlier to say that I'm 23, I study forensic psychology and criminology and I'm a Ravenclaw/Slytherin. I would marry Anne Hathaway in a second. Biiit of an anglophile when it comes to stuff like Jane Austen novels, the Brontë sisters, queen Victoria and Downton Abbey anyone else? (:. V vital info. I'm also a phan-atheist (soz, don't come for me, I didn't choose the anti-phan life, the anti-phan life chose me).

I'm enjoying all the desktop and phone backgrounds but the notifications stress me out, jeeze.

-My few contributions to the world of phanart include an interpretation of deppy as dogs and some hair edits: nikawolfe.tumblr.com/tagged/art #spon Also I made a handful of d&p face emoticons.

Speaking of pictures, that edit of Dan with ashen white hair is doing things to me. I think it's the throwback to 2006 Gerard Way that does it. The boy should go for it - it's monochrome, Dan, it works.

[melanche]

I've lurked on here for a LONG time and I wasn't even going to post an introduction but fuck it
idk what to say next so i'll just puke out some hip facts
-I swear far too often. Like I swear as a vocalized pause it's honestly getting to be a problem.
-I'm bisexual and have only told two close friends who actually ended being bi too so that was cool
-I have a passionate hatred for american cheese, even just touching it or smelling it makes me gag
-I get far too obsessed with things like dan and phil and actually have a lot of trouble balancing my interests. I'm stuck in a never ending battle between d&p, anime, and sims.

I briefly considered adding more to this list but I think I might get carried away.

[angrymob]

I'm minoring in French and I ultimately want to go into translation. I don't have a concentration in linguistics or anything; I think pretty much every branch of it is fascinating. I guess I'm a bit partial to phonetics/phonology/morphology though.

Greetings from French Canada then!
If you pursue French-English translation in North America, you'll probably have to deal with Quebec and New Brunswick quite a lot and for that I'm sorry.

Also, I rewatched Phil's first video on its ten-year anniversary and he FREAKING TALKS ABOUT LINGUISTICS. After all the time I've spent complaining that he never mentions it, you'd think I should be aware that he mentions it in his very first video (and then never again lol).

:23
"Today. What have I been doing today? I’ve been doing my exam, which has been the most boring thing ever. Er, I’ll read you a question just to show you how terrible it is. Er, ‘Provide an orthographic and an allophonic transcription of the word/phrase in which the phenomena occurs in progressive place assimilation and regressive voicing assimilation.’ Excitement. Anyway…”

I guess it probably wasn't his favourite or what he expected (as it is for many), but c'mon Phil, at least give use more context to your example! What phenomema is the question talking about, Phil? I must know!

[icklebrina]

angrymob - Thanks for the link to NLTK, looking through it a bit
I just assumed he was talking about the phenomenon of assimilation. I could be wrong though. I, too, wish he had talked about it more
And I personally happen to think assimilation is cool! Silly Phil. Though I will grant him the dislike of exams

melanche - Totally with you on the hatred of American cheese. Way worse than avocados yum

felucca - I should never have doubted you. Mea culpa! Also, yay ling!

Love all the desktops and phone screens!

[angrymob]

angrymob - Thanks for the link to NLTK, looking through it a bit
I just assumed he was talking about the phenomenon of assimilation. I could be wrong though. I, too, wish he had talked about it more
And I personally happen to think assimilation is cool! Silly Phil. Though I will grant him the dislike of exams

Yeah, I just feel like their was probably more information in a previous question, since it seems to reference a specific phenomena and word/phrase, so the question sounds more confusing that it probably would be with context. I see you Phil, trying to make it appear more complicated/boring than it actually is. Not that I'm not guilty of that myself sometimes

[Winterbury]

I just caught up on 8(!) new pages, oh god. I can't believe I missed the HP house discussion (INFP/Hufflepuff seems to be a pretty popular combination btw? /high fives oqua + jhambs + whoever I missed/) I did that one really big sorting test that seems to have disappeared from the internet a few years ago and Pottermore actually sorted me into Hufflepuff the first time I took their test so yeah, 100% badger here my Hufflepuff scarf is my proudest possession

I'm, too, really hyped for Eurovision this year!! I haven't listened to any of the other entries yet but I actually like our (Germany's) song. the girl singing it is a complete weeb it's so surreal and yet so fitting

i'm irrationally mad at my parents for not having me 10 years earlier so I could witness the glory days of myspace/emo culture myself

From what you said, I'm assuming you are probably in your mid-teens? Speaking as a failed scene kid who witnessed these days in all their terrible glory, I do miss old Panic! and My Chemical Romance. However, I do NOT miss the weird hair and all the drama that was 2004 MySpace, oh my God. Everyone was such a dramatic attention whore, including myself. You're not missing out, trust me.

I'm 16, lmao, but I've signed up to my first online forum when I was 9 so I'm pretty sure I witnessed the very end of it. I don't remember much but what I do remember is glorious. So many gif stamps. Everyone was "not like other girls". Tons of Reader/Akatsuki member fanfiction. Younger me would've loved it lol

I kinda forgot earlier to say that I'm 23, I study forensic psychology and criminology and I'm a Ravenclaw/Slytherin. I would marry Anne Hathaway in a second. Biiit of an anglophile when it comes to stuff like Jane Austen novels, the Brontë sisters, queen Victoria and Downton Abbey anyone else? (:. V vital info. I'm also a phan-atheist (soz, don't come for me, I didn't choose the anti-phan life, the anti-phan life chose me).

Sorry to assault you like this but I'm actually hoping to become a forensic psychologist and you're the first person I've "met" so far who wants to do the same!! I didn't know there was such a thing a taking "forensic psychology" at university(?) tho; all the universities I looked at just listed "normal" psychology as a course option. Can you tell me a bit about your courses?

Also, yes to both Anne Hathaway and Downton Abbey. Haven't watched it in ages tho because

of that one episode where Thomas thinks that new douchelord working for the Crawleys is into him. Idk, the second-hand embarrassment was too much for me to handle.

But it's a real shame, the show is amazing. I really have to get over myself and continue watching.


And finally: yaay, desktop sharing!! Here's mine:

[alittledizzy]

Since I was on my Chromebook (which doesn't even have desktop icons) when the whole desktop sharing was happening, here's mine:

Not the messiest, not the neatest. But there is a cute puppy bg.

[barbieisaloser]

I'm minoring in French and I ultimately want to go into translation. I don't have a concentration in linguistics or anything; I think pretty much every branch of it is fascinating. I guess I'm a bit partial to phonetics/phonology/morphology though.

Greetings from French Canada then!
If you pursue French-English translation in North America, you'll probably have to deal with Quebec and New Brunswick quite a lot and for that I'm sorry.

Also, I rewatched Phil's first video on its ten-year anniversary and he FREAKING TALKS ABOUT LINGUISTICS. After all the time I've spent complaining that he never mentions it, you'd think I should be aware that he mentions it in his very first video (and then never again lol).

:23
"Today. What have I been doing today? I’ve been doing my exam, which has been the most boring thing ever. Er, I’ll read you a question just to show you how terrible it is. Er, ‘Provide an orthographic and an allophonic transcription of the word/phrase in which the phenomena occurs in progressive place assimilation and regressive voicing assimilation.’ Excitement. Anyway…”

I guess it probably wasn't his favourite or what he expected (as it is for many), but c'mon Phil, at least give use more context to your example! What phenomema is the question talking about, Phil? I must know!

I just got way to excited. I'm doing linguistics as well, but in Germany
oh I would pay so much for Phil to make a whole video about that

[el1203]

HI all! I recently came out of lurking on GG only to be directed here!! I am excited to start posting here The other forum seemed to have tons of issues...but I do see a lot of fimilar users that I enjoyed seeing post on GG!!

as far as the getting to know you game oh man....

> I was an avid Tumbler user and involved heavily in the 1D fandom ( a very specific part of the fandom) emphasis on the was haha!

> I got sucked in to the dan&phil shenanigans because I fell hard for Dan's quirky relatable dinof persona.....I know

>I spend way too much time on YouTube...

>I generally just love pop culture

[Violet Witch]

Hi, I'm Abi! I was a sometime poster on GG, but I'm so happy to be here as this seems to be a great environment. I love music, superheroes, astrology, and baking

[loststars]

Hi, lovely people! I think it's high time I properly introduced myself.

- My name's Diana and I'm studying Communication-related bulsh*ttery .
- Just turned 24 last month ommggggg
- I guess I'm straight but I feel like I'm about 70% asexual. I can find boys attractive but it's usually veeery hard for me to like someone, I'm mostly like this smiley here - . (Especially during my HS years.) Even if I do get attracted to someone, it's usually some kind of a celeb or maybe a unavailable person.
- I'm very emotional and sensitive but when it comes to relationships, I generally don't feel almost anything. At least so far, my friends tell me I just haven't met the right person yet..
(And often exactly people who I would never like romantically are the ones interested in me so HA HA, I'm very lucky )

- I used to be pretty active on Livejournal and graphics communities, where we made edits of our favourite shows/movies/etc. Then we moved to tumblr and I haven't properly interacted on there for years. I miss these times, back then my favourite pastime was creating icons or something on PS. So relaxing!

- My latest pretty big obsession up until last year was ASOIAF, I got quite invested in the Arya/Gendry future possibilities/parallels.

-Rediscovered D&P around late last summer or so, but I was a bit of a Dangirl in 2013 (?), when I found his videos. Took me some time, but later on I also subbed to Phil aaand then I kind of forgot about this side of YouTube, I guess.

Very happy to join this community!