The scene: last night's rehearsal. lediva hands me a bag she was holding for me ( Read more... )

- The Yard is full of classes being held outside for the first time this year.
- The classes have to compete for grass space with frisbee players whose every throw threatens joyfully to decapitate them. ;c)
- I'm wearing wayyy too much pink lately.
( Exhibits A and B )

So, I got two (*two*) e-mails today, both from students at the med school, explaining that they had organized a panel event with three Deaf presenters, that it was happening the day after tomorrow, and that they'd been having trouble finding interpreters ( Read more... )

The thesis is as done as it's going to get. For those of you who are masochists or terminally bored, here 'tis:

Signs of Conflict: Language, Power, and Bilingual Deaf Education in MontrealDo I feel like a tool for using the "Signs of X" witty-title-cop-out? Oh yeah. Do I really mind all that much? Nope ( Read more... )

- friends in more time zones. That way, when I refresh my flist at odd hours, something new will pop up.

- more perfectly lovely evenings like yesterday's. Big smiles for coffee in very good company (don't blush, lediva, we've already established that you're fabulous ( Read more... )

I have some of those, I swear! :c ( Read more... )

In my e-mail:

Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:49:42 -0500
From: Linguistics Assistant Head Tutor
Subject: Thesis deadline -- March 25

( the subject's bad enough )

So here's the schedule for my thesis in these few remaining days (18 of them, to be precise ( Read more... )

It's been a while, hasn't it? (Actually, I tried to post last night, but it didn't work; so techincally I'm posting for the second time in two days, which is actually quite respectable ( Read more... )

allophone: Philol. Any of the variants making up a single phoneme. (OED)
[Une des formes variantes qui composent un seul phonème.]

allophone: linguistique Se dit d'une personne ou d'un groupe, dont la langue maternelle ou la langue d'usage est autre que la ou les langues officielles du pays où il se trouve. (Grand dictionnaire terminologique ( Read more... )