Linguistical Limericks

There once was a verb from intransitive
who scoffed at the noun phrase from transitive
one day it collided
with two nouns elided
and now it is living ditransitive

A linguist without any witnesses
set down to the business of synthesis
but her words fell apart
in a scramble for art
and she ended her days in analysis

There once was a poet who tried
to study linguistics applied
when she had to read Krashen
her teeth fell to gnashin'
at the monitor model inside

These were written for my group project in applied linguistics. A very fun class, where we are encouraged to be creative. I have never had a class with a set-up like it before. We have two professors. One Linguist, and one Applied Linguist. We meet three times a week- each professor takes a day to discuss the article of the week, and then the third day a group does their presentation. I was fortunate to have my week be week 5, it made the project into a 'midterm', and now I can focus on the final project, which will take a lot more time to put together. In fact, I picked up three books from the library to read.