Sep 30, 2011 15:03
1. You can never escape Chomsky. EVER.
Okay. On my first day of orientation, I told this girl at the campus radio station (I did work experience there when I was still in high school) what I was taking in first semester and she was like, "Oh, Chomsky wrote a TON of stuff on those topics. Here, let me write some stuff down for you! ^.^"
So yes, she was incredibly nice, but I didn't expect THIS. He's in like, THREE of my four course readings. Like, WTF. Okay, I can understand Linguistics and Cognitive Science, since syntactic structures are VERY IMPORTANT THINGS, but in POLY SCI? WAIT, WHAAAT????
Chomsky is a very wonderful and intelligent individual though, I will say :D
2. There are no vowels in Arabic writing.
You know those squiggles you always see on Al Jazeera? No vowels in that hodgepodge AT ALL. Native speakers are just supposed to guess the vowel sounds based on the context O___________O
And I thought Chinese was hard. BOY, WAS I WRONG. No wonder Arabic translators are in such high demand. THEIR LANGUAGE IS LIKE A SECRET CODE. T_T (Although they do have vowel indicators in texts for learners, still. GAHHH!!!)
3. Attention is a very complex, multi-faceted thing.
There's covert attention, divided attention, location-based attention, object-based attention.....although some of these are subcategories of the other ones....
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@______________@
4. The supposed origins of the "F-word"
This was SERIOUSLY in my Linguistics textbook. The definition I believe the most is the "f___" is a Scandinavian word for "thrust", but they included this excerpt from a book that said it was "Fornication Under the Consent of the King". Gee...... =____=
5. There are pianos EVERYWHERE.
I swear, there are pianos in TWO of my lecture halls, in the student centre....wow. Although some of them are pretty badly out of tune, LOL
That's all for now~ ^_^ I shall post a somewhat less substantive post about KPOP (or something) in the not-so-distant future. :D
Oh. AND THEN THERE'S AFTER EDEN....
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Must prioritise, prioritise.... =.=
university,
lol