I just handed in my last piece of coursework, then returned to a post from postmodern_minx saying she's finished her degree (well done!). And it occurred to me that in fact I have just finished my diploma thingy, haven't I ( Read more... )

I read this New Yorker article about the Piraha tribe and language yesterday - long but fascinating.

I've never really bought the Chomsky universal grammar thing. More than anything else, it just seems to be unnecessarily complicated. Children are exposed to a lot of language from the moment they leave the womb; to me it would seem more ( Read more... )

This week in one of my college seminars, we took the short form of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. This measures Psychoticism, Extraversion, & Neuroticism (& includes a 'lie scale' which is supposed to indicate if people are filling the questionnaire in reasonably truthfully).

( psychoticism )