Archive for February, 2007
Monday, February 26th, 2007
The comparative method used in historical linguistics to determine direction of sound change/reconstruct a proto-language's phoneme inventory is a long and laborious pursuit. It is actually pretty fun, though. It's like working out a big puzzle, though I occasionally run into issues in organizing data properly, leading to my confusion.
I ...
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
So, I was in the hospital the last couple of days. Long story. The most interesting part was that I got so dehydrated as a result of what put me there (probably gastroenteritis) that I needed 5 bags of IV fluids to get me to pee at ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
My most recent assignment for historical linguistics was on analogical change. Part of the assignment required me to note examples of analogical change around me. Some of the examples I cited included things friends and I say. Well, mostly friends who are node-members say these:
ยท Succumb/succumbed/succumbed becoming ...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
I got really sick last week, keeping me out of commission from Wednesday night until about Saturday afternoon. Now, after getting over whatever the hell got me last week, I am weakened and open to whatever is going around now. I predict a few weeks of low-level illness ...
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