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felis_ultharus) wrote2005-09-09 12:32 pm
felis_ultharus) wrote2005-09-09 12:32 pm
Entry tags:
Loups-garou and linguistics
'Tis been a long week. I've got my last English placement interviews of the week this afternoon, and I'll be glad to get that over.
I've have to read a short volume on postmodern linguistics. The fact that Saussure is influential is depressing. Assuming the author I'm reading is not misrepresenting his views (and I should probably give Saussure the benefit of the doubt, since I've read little of his stuff directly), the only way to make sense of his beliefs would be if all human languages had come into existance 2.5 million years ago, in their modern-day forms, and hadn't changed since.
I have to finish this book for Tuesday. But I couldn't resist taking a book on Québécois folktales out of the library. I don't think I need to mention which book I've actually been reading, but I feel somehow that learning about werewolves is somehow more relevant to my life than Saussurian linguistic theory.
I've have to read a short volume on postmodern linguistics. The fact that Saussure is influential is depressing. Assuming the author I'm reading is not misrepresenting his views (and I should probably give Saussure the benefit of the doubt, since I've read little of his stuff directly), the only way to make sense of his beliefs would be if all human languages had come into existance 2.5 million years ago, in their modern-day forms, and hadn't changed since.
I have to finish this book for Tuesday. But I couldn't resist taking a book on Québécois folktales out of the library. I don't think I need to mention which book I've actually been reading, but I feel somehow that learning about werewolves is somehow more relevant to my life than Saussurian linguistic theory.