You Are 56% Open Minded
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Ok, so we're just getting introduced to the construct of Feature Geometry (ok, well maybe the rest of the class is) when it comes to analyzing our data. Anyway, the details of that aren't important except that in this construct, nothing is linear, everything is in separate dimensions. The funny part came in when the prof was drawing a simplified ( Read more... )

Ok, so my last post about my in-laws was a huge rant, but in all honestly, the visit wasn't bad. Not bad at all, so perhaps I worried for nothing (admittedly, I am good at that.) I still wish that they had come Friday and stayed a little longer, but...whatever. Honestly, though, my father-in-law's back is so bad when he spends too much time in the ( Read more... )

You Are 32% Evil
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You Are Boston
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Ok, so I was all excited about making a meal for my in-laws for Friday night, except that apparently, they aren't bothering to leave NJ until Saturday morning, and then leaving Sunday afternoon. And they just told us this last night, after we asked to make sure. They wouldn't actually volunteer it, but Evan was like, oh, because Heather was ( Read more... )

So here's the deal. Evan's parents are coming to visit next weekend, possibly bringing along his Grandma Blanche. So that means this place needs to be immaculate. Evan has February break this week, which helps. We're doing a room a day, basically. We started with our bedroom, which we never really decorated, so it's not really US. We went ( Read more... )

I have to say, yesterday was a nice day. Evan had the day off due to the snow, as did I, at least in the morning. I had class to go to in the afternoon, but sleeping in two days in a row was a rare treasure. Evan's finally getting over his illness after loads of drugs (that cough is finally going away, after 2 weeks) and can get back to being a ( Read more... )

Ok, I got this from Yahoo News. A few things drive me nutty here. I think the term that should be used is 'polyglot' not 'linguist.' This drives me crazy. Polyglots speak lots of languages, linguists analyze languages. Noam Chomsky can get away with speaking only English and still be a linguist ( Read more... )

As part of my comprehensive requirements for the PhD, I get to do a book review. The book I've chosen to review is New-Dialect Formation: The inevitability of Colonial Englishes by Peter Trudgill. He is looking at the Englishes of Australia, South Africa, the Falkland Islands, and especially New Zealand. I've started reading it and so far, it ( Read more... )