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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog Post 4I decided to talk to my mother in regard to the English language because we are quite different when we speak it. To start off, me and […]

    1 year, 1 month ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog Post #3Sentence one: Proposition: I have a cat. Truth value: True. Truth conditions: For this to be true, I would need a cat to […]

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

    Thamal Eheliyagoda commented on the post, Discussion 5

    I would like to add to my previous reply to you that “handsome” and “beautiful” can be represented by a mental image, but perhaps for only each individual. Trying to make the mental image of “handsome” and […]

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

    Thamal Eheliyagoda commented on the post, Discussion 5

    I’m interested in the part where you talk about whether or not a reference is subjective. I agree where you say that beauty is subjective. This is because not everyone sees beauty the same. One person may be seen […]

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

    Thamal Eheliyagoda commented on the post, Discussion 5

    One of the topics I found surprising was mental images, and how they are not perfect in finding the meaning of a word. I learned that people can picture the meanings of words differently. This may sound obvious, […]

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

    Blog Post 2The word that I will be using is guru. This word was borrowed from the Sanskrit language for the English language. In the donor […]

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

    Thamal Eheliyagoda commented on the post, Discussion 4: The Sounds of Language

    I cannot recall having any difficulties with my first language, but I do have one instance for the English language. When I was in third grade, I remember saying the number three. The problem was that I was saying […]

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

    Blog Post 1When reflecting on the past classes that I have taken during my educational journey, I cannot explicitly recall being told not to use a […]

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

    Thamal Eheliyagoda commented on the post, Discussion 3: Descriptivism and Prescriptivism

    One of the strengths of the descriptivist approach is that it allows for effective communication between a group of people. It cannot be said to be wrong because it does not adhere to a specific set of rules if it […]

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

    2/13/24hi

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

    Thamal Eheliyagoda commented on the post, Discussion 2: What is language?

    I think that the turning point would looked like a rather slow advancement in the the way that early humans would have communicated with each other. I say slow because evolution takes a long time. We didn’t just […]

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

    Thamal Eheliyagoda commented on the post, Discussion 1

    I hope to learn the decline of certain languages and how they’re being archived so that they never get forgotten. I also hope to learn the evolution of languages overtime.

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

    Testthis is a test

    1 year, 5 months ago
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    1 year, 5 months ago

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