https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ritaj3abbasi/activity/ Activity feed for Ritaj. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 3a3d93bb50876b5fc7a673e5e97c5ab9 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=732 Wed, 08 May 2024 03:21:35 -0400 Bog post #4My Dad, born in the 60s in a predominantly Urdu-speaking environment told me about the evolution in the usage of the word “love” […]

]]> a2d81127e98d784d4181fbdaf23b8f92 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=618 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 02:04:49 -0400 Blog post #31)Proposition: I have globophobia  Truth value: True  Truth conditions: For this to be true, I need to be anxious when a b […]

]]> 112fe5d5102c5ef3edf8fad653aa7155 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-178 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:14:33 -0400 I was surprised to learn about two topics. The first one was “semantic relationships”. I learned that there can be meaningful connections between two different words, an example that was given in the book was of […]

]]> 157bb592da4d7f92a0e9b4a10dde58ed https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=462 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:53:34 -0500 Blog post #2One word that got borrowed from English language, to my native language (Urdu) is the word “bank”. In English it is pronounced as […]

]]> cd7df36a833b79c93d4f030a065ca6dc https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/20/discussion-4-the-sounds-of-language/#comment-169 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:11:28 -0500 I remember when I was a young child, I used to pronounce the [v] sound as a [w]. For instance, I would say “woice” instead of “voice”. This is something I do struggle with to this day, since for me [w] and [v] […]

]]> 5635420e7c2be063b06e2218c8c78484 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=304 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:06:59 -0500 PrescriptivismUrdu is my native language and I recall in middle school, I wrote an essay and I used the word “uninterested” and my teacher told me […]

]]> b92681c2bb7cbf1feea5c5be32870929 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/13/discussion-3-descriptivism-and-prescriptivism/#comment-127 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:35:18 -0500 Descriptivism is a more non-judgemental approach when it comes to understanding a language. This concept allows more flexibility to form sentences. There is also the use of mental grammar in descriptive grammar as […]

]]> 1c705ab7b5ad92f5d1ac41b9bc60593d https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=218 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:37:51 -0500 2/13/24hello

]]> 56be292d8b739d9940e2dbcd7e7ba9de https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/06/discussion-2-what-is-language/#comment-101 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:06:19 -0500 When we look back at the early days of language, things were either expressed through art and gestures. The turning point would have been the ability to realize that early humans were specific and thorough with […]

]]> 884949c328d0881e60ba42d5481593fb https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/01/27/discussion-1/#comment-78 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:45:49 -0500 I hope to learn a bit more about the history of language and perhaps more about linguistic anthropology. I hope to learn more about the forgotten languages. I do also want to learn about folklore and if language […]

]]> 2164ba8ef08df6ba79a6de73dba00a63 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/973939/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:52:27 -0500