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Posted: 9/17/2008, 9:03 pm
by Lando
sounds like something a dumb canuck would say!
Posted: 9/17/2008, 9:22 pm
by beautiful liar
no, i love my linguistics class!!! no one else can have it!!
also, häagen dazs was on sale - so blair and i ate two tubs in a day, and had to go back and get more!
i never buy ice cream, this is just my way of throwing caution to the wind!
Posted: 9/17/2008, 9:29 pm
by laurel
is it just an intro ling class? or more focused?
Posted: 9/17/2008, 9:39 pm
by beautiful liar
it's a sociolinguistics class focused on bi- & multilingualism in canadian contexts. my last linguistics course as an undergrad :*)***
i'm so ticked i couldn't get into a field methods course that was offered this year - but i guess i am really not in the department and the real linguistics students *should* get priority. *sigh*
Posted: 9/17/2008, 9:49 pm
by laurel
...you guys have such better classes than us. a socioling class is nonexistent at the UofR. we have a research methods class...but it's a little tiny bit of a joke. the best way to get fieldwork experience at my university is to befriend one of the profs and hope they take you under their wing. ...one of the...oh...4 ling profs. yup. 4. awesome.
Posted: 9/17/2008, 9:56 pm
by beautiful liar
that sucks. only 4?! man, even my tiny school has more than that. we actually have a pretty awesome linguistics department (<3 prof. bruce connell) at glendon -and i love that it's integrated with the english department. the field methods course is pretty impressive - the prof brings in a sample of speakers (usually some he's used in his own research on african languages) and the class has to analyze the language from scratch.
Posted: 9/17/2008, 10:58 pm
by laurel
well, we have three full time. 1 part time. our linguistics department is perfectly dinky. ours is integrated with indian languages and literature, which results in the fun acronym DILLL - department of indian languages, literature, and linguistics.
our research methods course consisted of learning how to apply for grants, how to submit articles to journals, and proper formatting. oh, and for fieldwork? our prof brought in another one of our profs who speaks dutch. it uh...was not so good.
our department does have its strengths, though...we have one prof who offers neurolinguistics classes, each focusing on adifferent age category - pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric. all of our profs have extensive fieldwork under their belts...heck, one of them even revived a dead language. even though there's only 4 of them, they have enough of a variety of experiences to equal to about 12 people.
....and now that we've overtaken the cm with linguistics....
Posted: 9/17/2008, 11:48 pm
by Johnny
Hey, where'd the rubber ducky go?!
Posted: 9/18/2008, 1:25 am
by nikki4982
I have noooooo idea what you guys are talking about, but yay Haagen Dazs!
Posted: 9/18/2008, 6:41 am
by xjsb125
laurel wrote:anyway, it's 'sentences', not 'sentances', and 'beginning', not 'begining'. at least get your spelling correct if you're going to go after me for my capitalization. oh, sorry, i mean 'capitialization', if we're going by how you spell 'capitalize'. you got the other half of the words in your sentence correct, though...50% isn't too shabby!
Damn. Brian got burned.
*ball punches*
Posted: 9/18/2008, 7:03 am
by saman
laurel wrote:anyway, it's 'sentences', not 'sentances', and 'beginning', not 'begining'. at least get your spelling correct if you're going to go after me for my capitalization. oh, sorry, i mean 'capitialization', if we're going by how you spell 'capitalize'. you got the other half of the words in your sentence correct, though...50% isn't too shabby!
i think brian might've done that on purpose. which was why i didn't comment
Posted: 9/18/2008, 8:02 am
by Kicker774
saman wrote:i think brian might've done that on purpose. which was why i didn't comment
Oh crap ... They're on to me!!
Posted: 9/18/2008, 8:04 am
by myownsatellite
I doubt it. He never was good at spelling.
Posted: 9/18/2008, 8:38 am
by Kicker774
You keep on thinking that. Saman knows the truth.
She's learned to think like the criminally insane think.
She's learned to see like the criminally insane see.
She's learned to live like the criminally insane live.
She'll never do what common people do.
Posted: 9/18/2008, 11:18 am
by myownsatellite
...You are one messed up cookie.
Posted: 9/18/2008, 12:32 pm
by Kicker774
Posted: 9/18/2008, 12:37 pm
by saman
lol gee, thanks. now i feel like your normal everyday psycho
Posted: 9/18/2008, 1:34 pm
by myownsatellite
saman wrote:lol gee, thanks. now i feel like your normal everyday psycho
I was talking about Brian, not you, Saman
//Edit// Oh wait, were you talking about the lyrics he posted?
Posted: 9/18/2008, 6:25 pm
by saman
hahaha yes. only i didn't realize they were lyrics. carry on!
Posted: 9/20/2008, 2:38 pm
by Johnny
I bent my wookie.
