Random Language-Geek Quizzly Thing
Mar. 2nd, 2004 12:40 pmStolen from
beths_stanley:

Congratulations! You're a preposition! preposition
(prp-zshn)
n. Abbr. prep.
A word or phrase placed typically before a
substantive and indicating the relation of that
substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another
substantive, as English at, by, with, from, and
in regard to. HELL YEAH!
What Part of Speech are you?
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(though I disagree with their pronunciation key...all hail the International Phonetic Alphabet!)
Congratulations! You're a preposition! preposition
(prp-zshn)
n. Abbr. prep.
A word or phrase placed typically before a
substantive and indicating the relation of that
substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another
substantive, as English at, by, with, from, and
in regard to. HELL YEAH!
What Part of Speech are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
(though I disagree with their pronunciation key...all hail the International Phonetic Alphabet!)
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Date: 2004-03-02 09:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-02 10:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-02 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-02 10:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-02 10:37 am (UTC)There are no vowels in their pronunciation key. That seems unhealthy to me.
If I could marry an inanimate object, I would marry the IPA. Because Hugo Weaving's eyebrows are definitely animate.
no subject
Date: 2004-03-02 10:49 am (UTC)I have an IPA eye chart on my cube wall. Many people walk past it and just go "huh?" But some of my coworkers get it. And that makes my little geek heart very happy.
no subject
Date: 2004-03-02 12:10 pm (UTC)