This semester I'm taking a linguistics course, LING 101: Languages of the World. It's not what I was expecting--I thought we'd be learning about how different languages are related and the history of languages, I suppose--but I am enjoying the class, and learning a lot. We're learning IPA, which I find quite interesting, as I never knew how to ( Read more... )

For the life of me, I just can't get these words straight:

-cleisis = closure
-cyesis = pregnancy
-clasis, -clasia = act of breaking up
-clysis = irrigation
-ectasis, -ectasia = dilation, expansion

One of the words we have to know in the last module for my CLST 301 class is anthrac-, which means "coal". Immediately I thought of Bacillus anthracis, went to check good old Wikipedia, and sure enough, there is a connectionCLST 301 is an awesome class! It combines two of my favourite things--science and words. I just love it! In my ( Read more... )

One of the classes I'm taking is CLST 301: Technical Terms of Medicine & Biological Science. In this class, we learn Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes of words that pertain to, what else, but medicine and science. This week we have a test on module 3 and 4 (there are 10 modules), and module 4 is the reproductive system. The tests are ( Read more... )

While looking up information on Wikipedia, I found out the coolest thing: baby monotremes are called puggles. How cute is that? Puggle is such an awesome word. Puggle puggle puggle. I love it!

( cuteness under the cut )

Last night I had a bunch of weird dreams. In one of them, for some reason, someone asked me if I could tell him how to conjugate in the present tense the verb "to go to bed", in French. So I was telling him, and with the correct spelling as well. In my dream, this is what I said:

"Je lis, tu lis, il lit..."When I woke up, I was like, "WTF?" ( Read more... )

My math teacher always makes jokes and says silly things and often writes on the board one or two words of the silly things that he had just said. Today he was doing a problem on the board, and said, "It's a very difficult problem. It's si difficile," and repeated the phrase "si difficile." And then he said, "Does anyone know what C. difficile ( Read more... )

The chemistry class that I'm in is a preparation for general chemistry class. It's a class that's for students who have never taken chemistry before, and even though I have the pre-requisites for the general chemistry class (which doesn't even give science students transfer credits to UBC), it's been 4.5 years since I took a chemistry class at ( Read more... )

Wednesday evening was the Scrabble meetup, which was held at Kits beach for a change of scenery. lechiro and I went, and because we started after everyone else and were off to a slow start, we only played one game ( Read more... )

I had a fun day today. I went over to lechiro's house and we played a couple of games of Scrabble and he made me a very yummy dinner. I always like playing Scrabble with lechiro because we're both at the same level, and we don't get mad if the other wins, and can appreciate it when the other plays a good word or gets a high score ( Read more... )