Where are the Vampire Linguists?—F. Ang Bangah SpecGram Vol CLVII, No 2 Contents On Dominance and Submissiveness in Cognitive Linguistics—Mongo Yalbag
More Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
(because they aren’t actually true)

gathered at great personal risk of
psycholinguistic harm from actual student tests
by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira

This second collection of students’ pearls of wisdom, laboriously digitised from hand-written test answers (with italics added for clarity), demonstrates once again how students new to the study of language speculate about grammar after having imperfectly absorbed what their teachers think they have taught them.

Test question

Explain whether the demonstratives belong to the same part of speech in this sentence:
That tastes nice but this curry is cold.

Answers


Test question

Explain whether fast belongs to the same part of speech in this sentence:
Mary is a fast runner and she usually speaks fast as well.

Answers

More to come...

Where are the Vampire Linguists?—F. Ang Bangah
On Dominance and Submissiveness in Cognitive Linguistics—Mongo Yalbag
SpecGram Vol CLVII, No 2 Contents