AppLingBlo

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So far the studies that I have undertaken have been pretty interesting, but I generally file a lot of the stuff I encounter as "technobabble that I hopefully will understand more fully later". I understand that a lot of the reading that I am doing now forms the "base of the pyramid" and that as I build this foundation of knowledge I can reach more interesting and pertinent information later.

The textbook for LIN5000, An Introduction to Language, is actually one of the more interesting textbooks that I have worked with, and I've found a lot of interesting things in there outside of the normal course of reading.

We're starting to think about our first assignment, and I'll admit the idea is a little daunting. While I am very comfortable with the material in the textbook and the reading that have been assigned, we've also been given a huge list of academic journals, books and other resources that we should use to base our assignment on. This list represents thousands of pages of material, and paring that down into valid supporting facts seems like it will take so long that I must be misunderstanding something.

I'll spend some time this weekend poking at the assignment and we'll see what comes of it. More later....

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