fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:
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Every paper in my Brit. Lit. class.
My linguistics professor just used the sentence “Bitch be trippin’” to explain a grammatical feature of African-American English.
He was explaining “The habitual ‘be’”, in case you were wondering. Because she’s not just trippin’ once, but is found to be trippin’ on a regular basis. Were it just a once-in-a-while thing, one might say “[She] trippin’.” Actually, learning the grammar rules, and watching my white/nerdy middle-aged professor explain them without sounding like a huge racist, was pretty rad.
Mid-terms I thought I bombed, only to end up with a good grade:
Contemporary Linguistics: Expected D, got a B.
Major British Writers II: Expected C, got an A.
Let’s see if we can continue this trend today with Cultural Anthropology.
1.) I’m using my cell phone as a wi-fi hotspot in my Contemporary Linguistics classroom. This is the first time I’ve had Internet in here all semester. It’s really handy!
2.) I was really worried that I had failed the mid-term for Contemporary Linguistics. I, uh, actually got a B. I’ll take it.
3.) I’m going to research the syntactic processes behind predictive text (this falls under computational linguistics) for my research project in this class.
meaghano:
comingandcrying:
Your copy of Coming & Crying will be hardcover, 168 pages, containing 24 stories by 24 people, sent directly from a box in Melissa’s apartment and carried in a series of bins by Meaghan and Melissa to the general post office in Manhattan, where a woman named Estelle Lee will release it — that’s the word — to you. It will come in a white envelope.
$28 ($24 + $4 shipping/handling/Estelle, which will ship in 2-3 weeks)
hey look! you can click that button!
I just requested this for the library at Webster University! I hope it works out.
Classes start again today for me. I only have one class today, and that’s Major British Writers II with Caitlin.
I’m just saying that my schedule could be worse.
Mid-Term Update
Finished my paper for Contemporary Drama at like 6:30 a.m. on Thursday. Slept until 10:30, went to class and took my Contemporary Drama mid-term.
Got home at 3:30 p.m., ate a meal at 4:00, slept from roughly 5:30 to 8:30.
Woke up, spent a little sanity time. Now I’m working on a paper for Film Appreciation.
I’m shooting for 8 hours of sleep tonight. Wish me luck!
EDIT: 2:31 a.m. on Friday. Paper complete! 8+ hours of sleep, here I come.
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Did you ever wonder what the beginning of Beowulf sounds like in Old English?
Well, you don’t have to wonder anymore, because I had to record myself reading it for my Historical Linguistics class. I, uh, think I’m pronouncing things right.
3:00am. Still awake.
I’m watching Little Women and taking notes on the director commentary so I can write this 800-word paper about said commentary for my Film Appreciation class.
It’s not like this is a difficult assignment, or really that it’s that time-consuming. Basically, I should stop procrastinating. But we all know that I won’t.
That said, if I were in Warrensburg right now, I’d probably be taking a sanity break and someone would be enjoying brownies with me. So here I am in St. Louis. A different kind of sane, but probably more productive.
EDIT: The 4:13am update.
I finished the movie. 900 Words later, it’s time to sleep. I think I can still get seven hours if I fall asleep now.
I am not very good at this whole: speak in middle english thing. Vowels are beyond me.
(via a-eliz)
Historical Lingustics. Woo!
On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have a four-hour break between classes. All I want to do is fall asleep in the library, but I feel pretty awkward sleeping in public. The third and fourth floors are less populated, but I don’t get a wi-fi signal up there, so I would have to pack up my things and change floors when I want to study/sleep.
Summary: I’m so tired.
pedrosanchez:
can’t handle myself. marlon brando’s wardrobe in on the waterfront, and the way he carries himself in that movie, and how he interacts with eva marie saint….nope, can’t handle it. i mean, if some guy came up to me the way he came up to her, and talked the way he did, i’d be sold, enough is enough! i’m yours.
I watched this movie in Film Appreciation on Friday!