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Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
Joseph:
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--- Quote from: KvP on 18 Feb 2009, 21:01 ---but for some reason I keep coming back to thinking of linguistics as the sort of thing a far-right intellectual would study. Purity of language, heavy nostalgia factor, all that.
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I know two people who work with literature/linguistics. One is the leader of the local socialist party where I used to live. The other votes said party.
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Also: linguistics is descriptive of how languages actually function, not prescriptive of how someone says it ought to. Anyone who does it the second way is a douchebag or an old fart.
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And just plain wrong with from a linguistics standpoint, which accepts progression of language in any manner as natural.
KvP:
bog sled,
In my Politics of Organized Interest class we're starting up group projects, and I was afraid I'd be stuck with a bum group of numbskulls (given that this is an upper-division course the chances of that happening is slimmer than usual) so I was thinking of joining a group with the other vocal guy in the class (I talk quite a bit) but I was unable / too shy to work it out before class started. Fortunately for me that guy came to me and said "I want to work with you, you seem to know what you're doing". So it worked out.
Plus he's sorta dreamy.
ruyi:
So my mom is looking for a job now. She left me a voice message asking me to email the manager of nursing personnel resources at a certain hospital about the protocol for applying to multiple job openings. I stupidly sent an email asking that question as myself (ie from my email account) and specified that it was on behalf of my mother. Now she is really mad at me??
In hindsight it is painfully obvious that that is not a good idea and doesn't look good for an applicant but arghhh I am bad at adult things. Also bad at understanding my mom. Sometimes she is like "just do what I say!! and don't think about it!" and other times she is like "I know my language skills are poor but don't pretend you don't understand what I mean!!" And like...she had straight-up told me to ask this lady a question, which apparently meant that I was supposed to log into my mom's email account and write a draft and then let her look at it first :?
I guess I should have called my mom and asked to be sure but in the voice message she even added that the woman usually responds pretty quickly so I thought that implied I should do it ASAP.
I really hope I have not ruined things at this hospital!
pwhodges:
Well, it'll probably not be a disaster; and in any case you can't change things by worrying about it now. The way I see it, each mistake we make is one less for the rest of our life.
Emaline:
Blog thread:
So, on Tuesday, my mother gave me two of my paychecks that had shown up at her house. While going through yesterdays mail this morning, I found another paycheck. So I had a total of three paychecks. I rarely get paid on time, and I've had so much going on lately, so I'm not really sure if I missed three or two paydays. I really have no idea. The dates on all of them are all different. I don't know what to do. :(
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