the email got cut off... the S is the first letter of stanford dot
edu. just in cause there was any confusion.
thanks!
Mary
--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mary Qiu" <shemarty_at_h...> wrote:
>
> Hi quizbowlers,
> I'm from the stanford quizbowl team, and i'm doing my linguistics term
> paper on the language of quizbowl. i'm attempting to gather data/do
> research.....
>
> i'm consulting the lexicon on our team webpage, as well as that of
> berkeley, ucla, caltech...
>
> the obvious things i'll talk about.. "bagel" "to power" "to neg", etc...
> but i'm looking for more unique terms and words that are used in
> quizbowl...
>
> also, i wanted to analyze the structure of quizbowl questions. the
> pronoun usage, types of words that give away the answer, etc..
>
> if anybody has a link to a website with their school's lexicon, please
> email it to me..
>
> also, does anybody else have any examples of interesting linguistic
> pheonomena of QB?
>
> please email me at maryqiu_at_s... , b/c i probably wont check
> back on this page... or i might, but email me just to be safe? :P
>
> thanks, everyone..
>
> Mary