User:Derektb

I just want to sit here and feed my birds

Pure Items

 * Pointing
 * Public Universal Friend
 * Cultural Depictions of Turtles
 * Contrastive Focus Reduplication

Good Lists

 * List of Monarchs by Nickname
 * List of bioluminescent fungus species
 * List of lists of lists
 * List of colossal sculpture in situ
 * List of sigils of demons

Surprisingly Deep Articles

 * Alfred E. Neuman
 * Time immemorial
 * Ceremonial ship launching

Beneath the Earth

 * Derinkuyu underground city
 * Mary King's Close

Minor Items
Things that are funny or interesting, but not good enough shit to really be heartily classed That Good Shit
 * Herma
 * Zonule of Zinn
 * Cad Goddeu - "The Battle of the Trees"
 * Petrosphere

Minerology
Key articles to unlocking mineral knowledge.
 * Corundum
 * Quartz
 * Beryl

Geography

 * Barrier island
 * Hoodoo

Polyhedra

 * The Platonic Solids - The Classic Ones
 * The Archimedean Solids - The Nerd Ones
 * The Johnson Solids - The Hipster Ones

Fractals

 * The Mandelbrot Set - The One Everyone's Heard Of
 * The Koch Snowflake - The One You Do In Geometry Class
 * The Sierpiński Triangle - The One You Explain As Being Like The Triforce

Stars

 * Octagram
 * Hexagram
 * ...and Stellations
 * Stellated octahedron, also known as the "stella octangula"

Eclectic Specifics
Less about linguistics in general, more about linguistic phenomena.

Words

 * Eggcorn - "all intensive purposes" instead of "all intents and purposes"
 * Mondegreen - "Laid him on the green" / "Lady Mondegreen"

Phrases

 * Hendiadys - "Rainy Weather" -> "Rain and Weather"
 * Kenning - "Ribcage" -> "Bone House"
 * Contrastive Focus Reduplication - "chicken salad, not salad salad"
 * Zeugma and Syllepsis - "You held your breath and the door for me."

Wikimedia Commons

 * Kunstformen der Natur, lithographs by Ernst Haeckel

Wikipedia Articles Whose Titles Are Sentences

 * Who is a Jew?
 * Workers of the world, unite!
 * Many more of this ilk can be found in the List of political slogans

Coma

 * Coma
 * Awareness
 * Wakefulness
 * Dream Argument