Lisa's Linguistics Class
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:56 am
How's that going, Kida85? Your linguistics class this semester? Is it boring or interesting? Ever get to ask about Atlantean?
Ironically, I've got my first linguistics class this semester. Want to hear about it?
It's funny because my approach to the field is very..."arcane", to quote my professor. Linguists these days are interested in science; neuroscience, phycholinguistics, modern languages, spoken languages.
And here I am, all gung-ho about Archaic Sumerian and a hundred bizaare dialects that haven't seen working articulators in millenia. But I have a professor who understands, the guy who teaches me Ge'ez, the "Ethiopian Latin".
I've been trying to learn as much and as well as possible. It's not too hard for Intro Linguistics, but I also have Intro Phonology. The subject just doesn't grow on me. I'm trying to get it. It's all these rules and terminology. Maybe I'm more into syntax or morphology. And of course, historical linguistics.
I really just seem to do my own thing with linguistics. I can't force myself to open a book on semiotics (study of symbols), yet that's the field I'm told is most associated with what I'm really interested in (hieroglyphic writing systems).
Atlantean is still fun.
Dig Adlantisag kwiyimos po esetot.
Ironically, I've got my first linguistics class this semester. Want to hear about it?
It's funny because my approach to the field is very..."arcane", to quote my professor. Linguists these days are interested in science; neuroscience, phycholinguistics, modern languages, spoken languages.
And here I am, all gung-ho about Archaic Sumerian and a hundred bizaare dialects that haven't seen working articulators in millenia. But I have a professor who understands, the guy who teaches me Ge'ez, the "Ethiopian Latin".
I've been trying to learn as much and as well as possible. It's not too hard for Intro Linguistics, but I also have Intro Phonology. The subject just doesn't grow on me. I'm trying to get it. It's all these rules and terminology. Maybe I'm more into syntax or morphology. And of course, historical linguistics.
I really just seem to do my own thing with linguistics. I can't force myself to open a book on semiotics (study of symbols), yet that's the field I'm told is most associated with what I'm really interested in (hieroglyphic writing systems).
Atlantean is still fun.
Dig Adlantisag kwiyimos po esetot.