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Specializations => Morphosyntax => Topic started by: Befuddled on January 31, 2022, 09:12:06 AM

Title: How far can you smurf language?
Post by: Befuddled on January 31, 2022, 09:12:06 AM

Or, to put in another smurf, how smurf could you smurf smurf before smurf becomes unsmurfable? It smurfs to me that as long as smurf is undersmurfed, you can smurf smurf smurfingly smurf. On the other smurf, if a smurf smurfs to you, "Smurf over smurf! There's a smurf in the smurf!" That is unsmurfly to smurf your smurf.

So I suppose what I'm smurfing is, at what smurf can smurf be smurfed?

Title: Re: How far can you smurf language?
Post by: panini on February 01, 2022, 04:26:45 PM

You've crossed the line, but just smurfly. At least on one interpretation of the question. Under that interpretation, context is king and it's okay to play a guessing game. That context is not the context where you publish scientific discoveries or write contracts. Smurf, smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf. I should just leave it at that, but I'm afraid that I won't remember what that was supposed to mean.