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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog post 4I decided to speak to my mom about how the English language, specifically New York language and terminology. She told me our accents […]

    1 year, 2 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog post 3Proposition: I am 20 years old > Truth Value: True > Truth Condition: For this to be true, I would have to be born in […]

    1 year, 3 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Tahj Ahmed commented on the post, Discussion 5

    This also was very interesting to me how we can just simply think of a word and it makes tons of different images in our mind. Our human mind is amazing and can really make something out of nothing always.

    1 year, 4 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Tahj Ahmed commented on the post, Discussion 5

    During this topic, It was very interesting to learn about the whole “mental dictionary” topic and how it is different from a typical dictionary definition of a word. The way how a typical dictionary will define a […]

    1 year, 4 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog Post 2One word that I found that is borrowed by the english language is sabotage. It was borrowed from the French language, and now it is […]

    1 year, 4 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    blog post 1When I was younger, of course growing up in New York, our slang here is not the most “lingustic”. One phrase I can think of at this […]

    1 year, 4 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Tahj Ahmed commented on the post, Discussion 4: The Sounds of Language

    When I was younger, the only thing I had trouble saying was [ss], with my tongue. My dentist told me I had a tongue tie or something like that, and that led to the lisp. I also had an issue with cutting out parts […]

    1 year, 5 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Tahj Ahmed commented on the post, Discussion 3: Descriptivism and Prescriptivism

    What makes descriptivism different than prescriptivism is that descriptivism focuses on how words are spoken on a normal, regular basis. To elaborate, prescriptivism makes rules for how words are supposed to be […]

    1 year, 5 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Feb 13thHi

    1 year, 5 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Tahj Ahmed commented on the post, Discussion 2: What is language?

    Language is a very interesting phenomenon as how different it is than other forms of communication. It is how language is learned and adaptable based on different situations. “Equally impressive is that they grow […]

    1 year, 5 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Tahj Ahmed commented on the post, Discussion 1

    What I hope to learn in this class is to branch out in my knowledge and learn new things. I’ve never taken a class in linguistics and i don’t know what it’s about but i am excited to learn.

    1 year, 6 months ago
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    Tahj Ahmed became a registered member
    1 year, 6 months ago

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