https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/tahmed123/activity/ Activity feed for Tahj Ahmed. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 2b9718a6ddb8ce38377fd750802fc19c https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=799 Tue, 14 May 2024 23:45:36 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0ae3e8ccda2c4aa56bc2ad651be2acf7 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=715 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 02:34:41 -0400 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 […]

]]> 3ee014a7bc0d2f982c95017b63275f7f https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-219 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 05:25:49 -0400 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.

]]> 221f66b86685c7601849bcad2f8a56bc https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-218 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 05:24:23 -0400 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 […]

]]> f3fe7274192c5e67e6389e0fde949187 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=512 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:57:38 -0400 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 […]

]]> 1a4dccceca76b83bde42e04ffdedaafb https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=474 Sat, 09 Mar 2024 02:01:30 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7e7396c9adf8169ca3e6df164a7c6e65 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/20/discussion-4-the-sounds-of-language/#comment-174 Sat, 02 Mar 2024 04:50:38 -0500 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 […]

]]> 551c6098d267ecbe47da40a649d159ab https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/13/discussion-3-descriptivism-and-prescriptivism/#comment-144 Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:55:54 -0500 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 […]

]]> 11f7383af92361232bddb1919021f71d https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=255 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:43:24 -0500 Feb 13thHi

]]> 07f69e1978f81531645575bb66ca3259 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/06/discussion-2-what-is-language/#comment-100 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:51:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> b16f510166e7aa444437c8478ff9f4b8 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/01/27/discussion-1/#comment-66 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:57:40 -0500 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.

]]> f1dc052f95f81f3be306738a5ac6ec89 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/973906/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:44:06 -0500