I also enjoyed this last reading assignment but I will also admit I still confuse reference and sense. It seems to me that a lot of the things we learned in the first half of the semester where things that I […]

One of the topics I found very interesting, and helpful, was “Dictionary Definitions” and I believe one of the reasons is because I am currently taking a Shakespeare class and one of the more difficult aspects of […]

Growing up I don’t recall having difficulty saying certain sounds but specific words I did have issues with. I was corrected a lot because I pronounced ‘spaghetti’ as “sketti” and although I eventually learned […]

If prescriptivism and descriptivism had their own memes, I feel like prescriptivism would be a photo of a stern nun with her arms crossed in front of her while holding a ruler with the caption, “Do as I say!” whi […]

Trying to figure out what happened thousands of years ago and how humans went from animal communication to a structured language is difficult. With little information and a lot of guessing, I would imagine a […]

I took this class because I’m interested in learning how we (humans) evolved from what I assume were hand gestures and grunts into a structured language. I’m not sure if it will answer all my questions but it wil […]

I took this class because I’m interested in learning how we (humans) evolved from what I assume were hand gestures and grunts into a structured language. I’m not sure if it will answer all my questions but it will […]