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flashgordonweb posted Language and Culture Contact in California Native Americans | Oct 2, 2008
One of the most perplexing problems in the field of anthropology over the last hundred years has been the relationship between language and culture. Does language shape culture? Does culture shape language? Further, and perhaps more interesting, does language shape our cognition, effecting the very...
Alex posted 09 17 08 via Photos | Sep 18, 2008
I'd like to say I'll do this again but who knows. My day, in photos: Studying Linguistics at the Free Speech Cafe: Finally taking photos of this spheroid thing on campus: Going climbing with Julia, eating a damn good mission district burrito and listening to an awesome band:
Cinnamingirl posted Curiouser and curiouser | Aug 19, 2008
How does triskaidekaphobia manifest itself, I wonder? A number, an essentially unreal concept, seems to me to be a strange thing to have a fear of. What if such a person’s family or partner happened to be born on that day or something? Would they refuse to associate with them? Do they have...
Denial posted Am I missing something? | Aug 21, 2008
Found out this morning in Linguistics class that I apparently don't use a sound represented in the Phonetic alphabet that is used quite a bit in English. I've been speaking English for two decades and I didn't know this. There are two variations on the [th] sound. There is the smooth [th] like in...
