A Girl With a Sword

cut along the dotted line

Today our Phonology prof handed out Exam 2, with malicious glee in his eyes. On the front of the test, a set of data from the Seri language, he has written "A three-page Seri data set is enough to make even a grown phonologist cry, but as innocent new phonologists none of you should know enough to be scared." Further down the page he adds the comforting words "Don't panic. Nothing is as hard as Seri appears to be." This is a four-day exam. Tonight we make morpheme cuts. A couple weeks ago for student skit night some of us did a skit about Might Morpheme Power Rangers, which was hilarious and very true to life. It was about Power Rangers who had great morpheme cutting skills (morpheme cutting is separating different parts of the word by smallest section of meaning, like the morpheme cut in phonologist would be phonolog-ist.), but they were threatened by the Evil Lord Suppletion and his army of Possessed Nouns. Morpheme cutting skills should never be underestimated.