When you wake up in the morning and check the messages people have left overnight on MSN msnja and you get one that says:
So go on, try it[1].
Here's an extract anyway if you cant be bothered to read all that here's an extract:
Write a 1200-word essay on ONE of the following topics. Make use of relevant linguistic examples where appropriate.
1. How is it possible to discover the linguistic properties of hypothetical ancestral languages (proto-languages) for which there is no direct evidence? What limitations are there to the method of determining these properties?
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3. The following interchange is from a UK-based web chatroom. On the basis of this and other evidence you have seen concerning language change and age grading, as well as your own intutions as a speaker of English (as L1 or L2), do you think that the linguistic features referred to represent a change-in-progress in the English language? Or is it likely that the individuals will stop using these features as they grow older?
"The following" being one of my entries last year on how my language was changing. The good thing is that i DID manage to wean myself off it.
I'm a bit embarassed though when i go back to read the entry, i only barely manage to put my thoughts accross. No so much the spelling mistakes as the ommitted words. I suppose i should be more careful with my posts now... y'never know where they'll end up.
Nah... to hell with it!!
Author: brownAAngel
Date/Time: February 28, 2004 6:28 AM
I was even more embarassed by the fact that my ineloquence and inccompetence with language was on full display. I mean I am an English major you know and I would like a job that involves communication. Anyway, yea apparently dotfaf isn't so small time lets-go-visit-cos-i-am-bored-and-need-to-procrastinate!!
sigh!
( p.s. Why do u always publish my name.....lol)
maybe cos it's ya name?
don't get cheeky boo... it'll show up in google. My night life cannot be revealed to all!!(add melodramatic gesture with hands, and swoon)
Can you believe I also have to write a paper tonight on the dynamics of language for Psychology. No kidding.
Maybe I'll also quote you.
Any copyright violations? Nah!!! :-0
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