Some might recognize the title of this entry as being the title of a poem by Richard Wilbur (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoem98.html if you'd like to read it). While I am not often thinking immediately upon my waking of angels, peace, ( Read more... )

So school is keeping me busy. I have a ton of things to blog about, but I think they are going to have to wait until after this Friday, when my SIP is due. Currently I only have... 26 of 50 pages written? No fear, my non-existent ones, I have great typing capabilities, and all my research is done, so all I am doing is dragging the stupid ( Read more... )

Hello, my nobodies. This week has finished rapidly, much to my distress. Before I go forth and consider my considerations on Asia, I need to finish up the things currently left scattered in my life academically, I believe ( Read more... )

Sociolinguistics is the study of how culture and language are tied together. Studying a language reveals a lot about the people who use it. The reason for this is simple: language is symbolic, which means it is representative of something. The system through which it is expressed is also symbolic of the culture which created and maintains it. ( Read more... )

So onward and upwards! The next promised subject, I believe was a rant on the faultiness of translation, then attached to the inability to take a culture apart from its language. Any lingual method which lies solely upon the concept that the same thing can be said precisely through the implementation of a different lingual symbol is flawed. As I ( Read more... )

Apologies, my non-existent ones. I had intended to do as I promised and post twice more last time, but after I had my last post I went to see Les Mis in the theatres with my mother, and that just took my mind elsewhere. Then I had work on Monday wherein I wrote the posts I intended to use, but didn't have the internet to post them with. After ( Read more... )

I shouldn't have begun to think about language as a source of blog material. My brain literally went wild. I just posted around twenty minutes ago, got up, paced, and then found myself back at the computer all pumped up about language. Its just my favorite thing. Except for maybe my cat ( Read more... )