ELANG 223 (Intro to linguistics)
We (our thoughts) are not prisoners of language systems
Linguistics is to help learn how you do what you do unconsciously with language.
Latin is dead because no one speaks it.
All linguistic distinctoins are female oriented, "mother-tongue" and "sister-language"
'pet' is an animal in English, and a "fart" in Catalan. #themoreyouknow...
You want to talk "melting pot?" Let's go Linguistics! English-Germanic-romantic borrowings.
*we can't hear things very well.
Words are like people; they hang out with certain groups, the "snapshot'" of the past/histpry of words shows both change and similarity. Also... people get 'stressed,' too.
Everybody's sort-of unusual
Dr. Seuss is basically one big lesson on minimal pairs (hop on pop)
Days of the week are for the Roman Gods, even across many languages. Also, we totally ruined the calender by adding July (Julius Caesar) and August (Augustus) because otherwise the months would have corresponded with their numbers. September (7) October (8) November (9) and December (12).
The "daisy" is so named because it resembles the "day's eye", the sun.
The answer isn't in the reading... it's in the connection.
utterance pairs. "I love you" ... "I know."
NORM is an acronym for "non-mobile older rural males"
"He who has two languages has two souls." -Anonymous
Spanish
Èl que madruga, Dios le ayuda
No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano
Todos los problemas son masculinos (el problema, el trauma, etc)
El amor no se pierde de repente
English 294
Everyone here is depressed and anxious, It makes great writing.Museum science? Wordsworth Trust?
It's a global story.
We choose our history with a selective memory.
Survival itself is ennobling.
"Miserable comforters are ye all." -Job 12:2
Even if we have faith, it still hurts to lose things.
#listening to Hamilton
We make the mistake of forgetting that heroes are human.
We go to the book but revise it as the times need--> continued revelation
Poets: those professional imaginers.
There's a different Gospel for adults; it's more complicated. (The Tyger)
Irony is classy sarcasm
Tell me that there's more to it. I'll try to find it.
Tip for the future: memorize poems you like.
"The collective emails of Nicolas Mason"-future contribution to the world.
"They fought violently when together, but corresponded affectionately enough when apart" Intro to Romantic Period.
"Darkness! No parents! Filthy rich... kinda makes it better"-Lord ByBatman
Persuasion: Oh the many ways in which I am Anne...
Jane Austen is a Chinese diver--perfectly executed complex and twisting dives.
Would-be fiances with bad names: Harris Bigg-Wither (Jane Austen) and Fanny Brawne (Keats)
You've got the resources here to become a good writer and a good reader, but sometimes you've got to go the extra step on your own.
Vegetable experiences (it's good for you, but you don't enjoy it). Feeling down on yourself? One of Shelly's books only sold 6 copies.
You can contribute to the start of a war... just by writing a novel.
"But I was found wanting for what I wanted so badly... All but the tallest mortals." #akaDavid
Someone should write an essay on Poetry and TB (Poe and Keats)
Pobre POEcito.
"he read omnivorously" ?
A well-written satire's meaning isn't written on its sleeve.
My inner child comes alive in the face of conflict--and I shrink.
Mormons are the last Victorians
Maggie Smith as Lady Bracknal? SO cool!
If only Geologists would leave me alone... (?)
Utilitarian ideas: study only science and that which is seen as "useful" and you'll end up with depression. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. You can't divorce yourself of the humanities. God created apple blossoms, not just apples.
There are entire genres of literature that are 'hard to read'.
As I speak, I am aware of more than my intended audience (me)
Idea: Birthday list of dead literary figures, "Congrats! You've out-lasted Austen!"
Played a song from Better than Ezra, which is relevant because...? T.S Elliot is "better than Ezra (Pound). #savage #Englishmajorjokes
Right after Trump's election, '1984' became the Amazon best-seller.
Black culture and language was drowned in the middle passage.
I don't know where all of these strangely prophetic barmen come from. (Jazz Age writers)
"It was in language that the slave was perhaps most successfully imprisoned by his master, and it was in his (mis-)use of it that he perhaps most effectively rebelled."-Brathwaite
novels and movies are complicit in colonizing the mind.
Register for a bookstore for your wedding.
Dr. Mason's excited stutter. Is he left handed?
You've got to do your intellectual family history.
5 spiritual people can read/watch something, some can have a good, spiritual experience/enlightenment and some will feel spiritually uneasy. We have different thresholds, the spirit relates to us differently and is offended in some ways always and someways...not. Personal and spiritual decisions. (Erying Q&A)
The big goal of this class at the end of the day is to provide a framework for future reading.
Nothing explains everything.
We gave it to you, it's up to you to maintain
You can't be a good writer without being a life-long reader.
Quotes from Professors:
"Daffodils are, like, the greatest things in my life in March... except for family and God and the occasional colleague, that's you Emron."-N.M"We don't have history with a capital "H" because many histories, many perspectives, matter."-E. Esplin
"Happy Disney. Pre- 'Rogue One' Disney."
"We are all Jane Austen characters." -Nick Mason
"Authors are like stocks, they rise and fall in value over time."-Nick Mason
"My brain tells me I'm a genius!" "Let's all stop ogling."
"This is a Costco sampling. Now go by a bulk-sized version for your family and spend the rest of your life eating it."
"If your cemetery doesn't have evergreens, go petition them."-N. Mason
"When people live in the same space, they have kids together"-prof.
"Stories still fill a huge part of our recreational lives." N.M
"I'm extremely hot today, Emron's gone, not it's MY time."
"I don't think I've ever cried in class in my whole life before now"-N.M (talking about his dad's hidden faith crisis).
"I don't mean to critique anyone's family model. I DO mean to have you not critique anyone else's family model." E.Esplin
"I wrote 2 volumes on ambiguity... maybe it was therapy."-Dallin Oaks
"I will give you all kinds of strategies for being socially awkward"
"I sort-of feel like a magician. i show you tongue-defying acts."
"Sometimes creativity resides in knowing the rules and then artfully violating them."
"It's COOL."
¡Hay sufrimiento en la vida! -Hna. Bonyata
"There's education, and then there's exams." -Prof. Dorius (suggesting that they're not equatable)
Advice
Did you have an interview with the press? Ask to see the article before it's published. (saves a lot of headache later)
The average person nowadays has 10-12 jobs over a lifetime (AH!) so don't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone.
Second-language fluency is a 10-15% pay increase.
The average person nowadays has 10-12 jobs over a lifetime (AH!) so don't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone.
Second-language fluency is a 10-15% pay increase.
Musings
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Neither did. God did.
Write something on "Men and Pens: How Girls Date" (not sure where I wanted to go with that.)
"Dragons of Berk" instead of "DreamWorks" with Hiccup on Toothless instead of the boy on the moon.
"Popular" as done by men: "I'll teach you the proper tricks when you talk to chicks, manly ways to flirt and flex... it really isn't that complex, being POPULAR."
Prose and poetry are more similar than we think. Prose can be adapted into poetry. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.
The Tables Turned: "How sweet thus to lie in the grave, to hear the peaceful sounds of the earth, and just to know that our dear friends were near." -D. Wordsworth
The very things you think define you change... that's growing up?
Prose and poetry are more similar than we think. Prose can be adapted into poetry. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.
The Tables Turned: "How sweet thus to lie in the grave, to hear the peaceful sounds of the earth, and just to know that our dear friends were near." -D. Wordsworth
The very things you think define you change... that's growing up?
Take-Away
Langston Hughes reads "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; Vincent Price reads "The Raven?" gotta look that one up!Movies: "Bright Star" about Keats; Dr. Strangelove "Exit through the giftshop" film, street art. HomeStarRunner... the pre-youtube thing.
"El Cid: la leyenda"
Words: Cabalistic, evenescent
Books: "Devil's Dictionary," Ambrose Bierce; Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, "Oda al Dia Feliz"
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