CUNY Academic Commons | Steven Tindall | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/steventindall51/activity/ Activity feed for Steven Tindall. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 5f466df6e3a06944b0ff4271e667626c Steven Tindall wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=783 Tue, 14 May 2024 20:36:24 -0400 Blog Post #4I talked to my parents about the way that they spoke when they were growing up. My dad lived on Staten Island all his life, and my mom […]

]]> 9e92c53558d11dc0fd634fb81d350959 Steven Tindall wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=699 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:22:57 -0400 Blog Post #3Proposition: My ears are pierced. Truth Value: True. Truth conditions: For this to be true, both of my ears need to have been […]

]]> 3ccf1c751521088b607ecac9c3f6b6d8 Steven Tindall commented on the post, Discussion 5, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-208 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:55:11 -0400 Hello, I liked how you mentioned that there is a sense of abstraction and subjectiveness to a given mental image. It’s very interesting how something (like a cat) can be presented and will be mentally thought up […]

]]> 682ac548b4564a848cd8e34b8720b91d Steven Tindall commented on the post, Discussion 5, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-206 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:50:05 -0400 From our discussion in class, along with the readings, I was surprised by the surreal fact that I do have mental images for certain words. It was interesting thinking about my mental image of a television or a […]

]]> 6a9d1602d37dec9526116476764ec8ec Steven Tindall wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=520 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:17:44 -0400 BLOG POST #2One word originating somewhere else and borrowed by English is “illusion.” The word was borrowed from the French in the 14th cen […]

]]> 79bee33f22e648bbf645069eae779e12 Steven Tindall commented on the post, Discussion 4: The Sounds of Language, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/20/discussion-4-the-sounds-of-language/#comment-161 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 02:50:38 -0500 When I was a child I had many problems pronouncing and spelling words. In elementary school, I attended speech therapy to help me sound out words better. I found it very difficult to pronounce/spell “the,” “this,” […]

]]> 37766009c56b6bdb0b41c7bb252281c5 Steven Tindall wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=322 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:25:16 -0500 Prescriptivism; Blog Post #1When I was in elementary school, it seemed that I did a lot wrong. The way I spoke, wrote my letters, and wrote sentences were […]

]]> ab029469d379b4fce2122a5f0045fda9 Steven Tindall commented on the post, Discussion 3: Descriptivism and Prescriptivism, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/13/discussion-3-descriptivism-and-prescriptivism/#comment-133 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:45:43 -0500 Descriptivist language is favored by linguists rather than prescriptivist language because descriptivism focuses on how the language is used rather than any grammar rules applied to it. The strength of this […]

]]> 288f63e126ae63d052ee412ebc6256d1 Steven Tindall wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=249 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:38:55 -0500 February 13thTesting.

]]> cf27722f8d7944cf86a97d18e5d8ce36 Steven Tindall commented on the post, Discussion 2: What is language?, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/06/discussion-2-what-is-language/#comment-98 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:56:36 -0500 Our ancestors advanced from primal communication to what would now be considered language. This turning point in history must have led to new groundbreaking ways of life. Once the primal humans were able to […]

]]> e0896c12f782371f7170ece32898b770 Steven Tindall wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=138 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:01:51 -0500 Test 01This is a test for a blog post.

]]> efcc7a9a11563a7d426c3039d5746c63 Steven Tindall commented on the post, Discussion 1, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/01/27/discussion-1/#comment-67 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:59:02 -0500 I want to learn about the history of language, how certain words were thought of, and how the language we speak today came about. I also wish to become a better writer and reader.

]]> 9b8d5a9dadc0ff5fa4d7310011826950 Steven Tindall became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/973915/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:44:55 -0500