Linguist Rap

This is something else I did for my high school film class. I think it speaks for itself.

Lyrics

MC Chomsky in the house.

I've been searching and looking for something to learn,
I need a major in university, got nowhere to turn.
You can keep computer science, don't want no liberal arts,
It's all a mute point, 'cause I know where I'll start.

(Chorus)

'Cause I'm a linguist
(I study language all day long)
I'm a linguist
(Analyzing poetry and song)
The MC Hammer of grammar,
I'ma' send you all home
When it comes to linguistics,
I'm like Sir William Jones.

My folks don't approve, they think syntax is sin,
They can't handle a career choice that's so full of win.
Just 'cause it cost 40k to get my Harvard M.A.,
I still don't have a job, but that's okay.

(Chorus)

I know German to French, Greenlandic to Zulu,
Aramaic, Altaic, Suomi and Hebrew,
From the Indo-Europeans up to Sino-Tibet,
Learning all about languages is my raison d'être.

(Chorus)

Word.

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[flypem1]

being a linguist has nothing to do with being polyglot, but still a very funny video :)

[holycow818181]

@flypem1 I made this when I was in high school, and I didn't have as clear an idea of what linguistics is as I do now.

[songsforyou00]

who's william jones?

[holycow818181]

@songsforyou00 He was a philologist and linguist, famous for first suggesting that the Greek, Latin and Sanskrit languages were related to each other and descended from one common language, now called Proto-Indo-European.

[mechamind90]

Out of curiosity, is there an actual language called "Suomi"? Because the Finnish (Finland) for "Finnish" is "Suomi".

In case you're interested, this is the accented "ê" for "raison d'être" if you didn't know how to get it but do want it.

[holycow818181]

I was referring to Finnish when I said Suomi in the song, but there is a similar language called Sami.

And thank you for the ê.

[Murphyalex]

Hayhahaha it's so awful, but so funny... "The MC Hammer of Grammar", hahahaha

[15SDeater]

I'm a Linguistics major...but oh my god this is funny <3

[ToniaVaishno]

lol



[MaybeTheOcean]

nice video! it made my day in the last linguistics class at university :D

[nneuhaus84]

why? whats the point?

[ZHAProductions]

pause it at 0:06 lol

[Taberkalosis]

this goes hard. SEEN! I'm a Linguist too/

[MrReoNetro]

i wonder why this video is so popular in greenland and slovenia

[KateGladstone]

Okay ... Kiitoksia!