10 Years After

Healing In The Water

I went to sleep last night to the sound of crickets and awoke to the gentle sound of drizzling rain. Very nice. In fact, my whole weekend was nice. I didn't do any studying. Which was a luxury I think I could afford. (BTW, no journal entry for my Milton class this week.)

I did some review last night and this morning for a quiz in my Intro to Linquistics class. There were 4 questions and I think I missed one. I used the definition for underlying level for surface level. We hadn't gone over it in class and, maybe this is just making excuses, I didn't have a good grasp of the terminology. One thing that is unsettling is that linguistics will often have multiple terms for the same concept.

We also did some work from an Old English worksheet for the /f/ becoming /v/ rule. He said I couldn't participate and then explained to the class it wouldn't be fair since I had taken his History of English last year.

The girl next to me, who was in my Spanish classes over the summer and who took this class and dialectology at what she perceived to be a suggestion (she's a Spanish major), figured out the rule. She wanted me to confirm what she suspected, but I told her to tell the instructor. She was right: f->v/[voi]__[voi]
The grad students should be starting chapter 5 in my Dialectology class. In a way I wish I could be part of the group of three grads that are presenting this chapter. Then again, it'll be nice to sit back and let them explain away.