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English & Linguistics / Words that you always misread
« on: April 11, 2005, 12:56:53 PM »
I read misled the same way. I had a friend who read bologna, Bo-lohg-nuh. I was so pissed when I found out misled was Mis-Lead. 
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English & Linguistics / It's official now...
« on: March 17, 2005, 02:39:39 PM »
I totally didn't mean for you to help me. It's my homework and I dug my own self into this pit. Your help was more than appreciated. Thanks. 
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English & Linguistics / It's official now...
« on: March 17, 2005, 02:14:13 PM »
That makes a bit more sense. So that means that they are connected by actual laws or by the laws of languages?
I'm just screwed. I have to provide examples of particular concepts by Sapir, Saussure, Peirce, Austin, and Malinowski. I've already written most of my Peirce paragraph, but I'm pretty sure it's all wrong.
This stupid thing is due in two hours. I think the teacher will be nice about it being late, though, considering the fact that I'm sick. 
I hate being sick.
I'm just screwed. I have to provide examples of particular concepts by Sapir, Saussure, Peirce, Austin, and Malinowski. I've already written most of my Peirce paragraph, but I'm pretty sure it's all wrong.
This stupid thing is due in two hours.
I think the teacher will be nice about it being late, though, considering the fact that I'm sick. I hate being sick.
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English & Linguistics / It's official now...
« on: March 17, 2005, 11:59:05 AM »
You will be my hero.
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English & Linguistics / It's official now...
« on: March 17, 2005, 11:38:28 AM »
All of the founding experts of Linguistics wrote impossibly difficult to decipher essays about their theories, most especially Charles S. Peirce. I have to write an essay with examples for all of their theories and no matter how many times I read paragraphs like this:
"A Symbol is a sign which refers to the Object that it denotes by virtue of law, usually an association of general ideas, which operates to cause the Symbol to be interpreted as referring to that Object. It is thus itself a general type or law, that is, is a Legisign. As such it acts through a Replica. Not only is it general itself, but the Object to which it refers is of a general nature...."
WHAT?!?!?! WRITE ENGLISH, YOU MATHEMATICION SILLY MAN!!
"A Symbol is a sign which refers to the Object that it denotes by virtue of law, usually an association of general ideas, which operates to cause the Symbol to be interpreted as referring to that Object. It is thus itself a general type or law, that is, is a Legisign. As such it acts through a Replica. Not only is it general itself, but the Object to which it refers is of a general nature...."
WHAT?!?!?! WRITE ENGLISH, YOU MATHEMATICION SILLY MAN!!
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English & Linguistics / The Mormon dialect in writing
« on: March 10, 2005, 10:01:10 PM »
I agree, it sounds a little awkward. I've never heard it used in a serious sense. Let's see... I have heard inasmuchas, but I'm in college, so whatev.
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