I have been reading through my textbook for my LIN5000 - The Nature of Language class. The textbook is called An Introduction to Language and I don't mind telling you it wasn't cheap even at Amazon. What exactly makes a textbook expensive? Is it the same thing that makes CDs in Japan three times as expensive as in America?
Anyway, finished up the first chapter today and I was surprised to find a typo in the book (8th ed. p. 12). It's a simple typo, but it reads, "Listeners my become confused, tired, bored, or disgusted."
Call me cynical, but why does the eight edition of a US$66 book on language have a language error in it? On page 12? I was a little surprised.
The chapter was interesting and it did have a lot of good information in it. There was lots of lingo that I'm sure I will be throwing around comfortably in the future. I'm still in the over(and under)whelmed stage for now.
Anyway, finished up the first chapter today and I was surprised to find a typo in the book (8th ed. p. 12). It's a simple typo, but it reads, "Listeners my become confused, tired, bored, or disgusted."
Call me cynical, but why does the eight edition of a US$66 book on language have a language error in it? On page 12? I was a little surprised.
The chapter was interesting and it did have a lot of good information in it. There was lots of lingo that I'm sure I will be throwing around comfortably in the future. I'm still in the over(and under)whelmed stage for now.
A coincidence. I have the same book, the 8th ed. Though I didn't notice the typo, it makes sense that why do you have to read a book written on the language that contains typo?
I'm justly at half to finish, that is chapter 9. I cannot help but tell you that I am a (Japanese) university student and
Coincidence No.2: I also have "A Handbook for Teaching at Japanese College and Universities." The editor-cum-contributor indeed was my ELP instructor in the spring semester (now teaching at International Christian University for some twenty years), and he had left a "huge" impression on me.
Though I am a Japanese I feel about the same. "The book backs up" awful lot.
I was blogging on his book and looking for best crucial link, when I came out to here somehow.
So then, it seems I'm a year after you...
Ciao,
Best wishes to your career anyways,
and well being.