10 Years After

Automatic Schmuck

There's not much of interest left for me take at school; it feels like just officious paperwork and a few required clases. I'm uncertain of so many things.

Here are some linguist books I've picked up over the weekend in Knoxville:

1. Stabilizing Indigenous Languages - Cantoni


2. The Other Tongue: Ebnglish across cultures - Braj B. Kachru


3. Deep and Surface Structure Constraints in Syntax - David M. Perlmutter


4. Old English - A histlorical linguistics campanio - Roger Lass

Over Christmas I picked up "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Ideas" by George Lakoff. Unfortunately I haven't gotten around to reading any of it. Today after having lunch I stopped by the used book store across from work and discovered "Where Mathematics Comes From" by Lakoff abd Rafael E. Nunez, and just had to buy it.

I'm also excited about the less academic "Et Cetera, Et Cetera" by Lewis Thomas that I picked up. I think Thomas should be required reading for all High School students. How college has things broken things up in to hermeticaly sealed compartments for each field is something that this second time around through college has been on my mind. It is also one of the reasons I love linguistics so much.

You know, the word luncheon is a very pleasing word to me. Oh, that reminds me . . . A friend inquired about the etymology on the word orange. Think I might do that tonight now that I have a pirate Internet connection.