CUNY Academic Commons | Susan couture | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/suecouture/activity/ Activity feed for Susan couture. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 0e99a481e9211dca436529f624a8f58c Susan couture wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=753 Tue, 14 May 2024 03:44:43 -0400 Blog 4Well, it was interesting asking people older than me about language and the responses were informative, comical, and some a bit […]

]]> 6c5a78619bd0723b7e9356feccc28d72 Susan couture wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=657 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:14:14 -0400 Blog Post #3 Proposition 1. Proposition: I have a tattoo of Tigger on my leg. Truth Value: True. Truth Condition: […]

]]> 5ca1fdce3068480a364cfa2abe0959fa Susan couture wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=583 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 05:04:16 -0400 Blog Post 2Well, this assignment was not as easy as I thought it would be for the simple reason of deciding on a single word from what is an […]

]]> 740eaa75d563304c945a04280fdf5a41 Susan couture 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-207 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:50:54 -0400 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 […]

]]> 3d715e6c32a79795fcac76540263bb7e Susan couture 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-203 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:28:51 -0400 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 […]

]]> acdf8b207478375c391130f689452684 Susan couture 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-162 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 04:46:21 -0500 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 […]

]]> 20cf4e2adb91d660e73312a69c706201 Susan couture wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=338 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:33:11 -0500 Family LessonsI do not have any recollections of teachers correcting my grammar, that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen but I just don’t recall any […]

]]> b1b5fb03c27bde3dc66cedf20e1bbdd8 Susan couture 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-141 Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:16:19 -0500 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 […]

]]> 20e77c688f03b49caf424ed229007451 Susan couture wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=222 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:37:40 -0500 February 13thHello Everyone!

]]> af8dbf1b8b0265a95bed0403106ae60e Susan couture 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-116 Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:07:13 -0500 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 […]

]]> ee44f95fae82983275691330ef573fdb Susan couture 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-87 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:43:38 -0500 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 […]

]]> cb8d4a3232a740e8d333edbc5690e8a9 Susan couture commented on the post, January 30, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/01/27/for-february-6th/#comment-86 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:38:34 -0500 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 […]

]]> 6ae0836d69078518ce0eacb2ad512fb4 Susan couture became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/973943/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:55:34 -0500