May I draw your attantion to this.

Please read and note that the headline editor cannot even bother looking at the first line of an article to see how to correctly spell a nation's name. And Bruce just lost quite a bit of respect in my books.

I think its good to see that the political leaders of the world are seeking to implement practical steps toward solving world hunger and mal-nutrition.


Too bad most don't have a brain the size of a rat's sacrum.

I used to like Chavez. But now I sit and wonder, at times, "what is Sr Chavez doing?"

I suppose its good to have a trained civilian corps in case of a military invasion. But, Sr Chavez, if the US is your biggest worry, I think you be a bit paranoid. Even with the most anti-Bush skepticism, there are bigger fish to fry, better fields to harvest, and funner meadows to prance in. You may rest, Sr Chavez, no one is going to attack you...Please, put the gun down, it may go off.

Liner had an interesting suggestion for a paper topic: hmmm. I wonder if my tutor would be up for me researching such 'words'. The paper I just finished was an attempt to define 'word', 'morpheme', and 'allomorph' and explain why it is difficult to do so across languages. I think I got satisfactory definitions, and demonstrated that it was difficult, but I'm not sure if I really descriptively did the later or if I just managed to live out the later.

Maybe she will think I am being genius and stylistic. Ha! (ooo, another good set of words to investigate along with hmmm.)

In other news, I attended an interesting lecture this evening where the Dr spoke on Christian Imagination. More specifically he spoke on Christ as Imagination. Now, before any of yall get to concerned (or excited), and think this is saying Christ is imaginary, he believes quite the opposite. Rather, he worked from the idea in John 1:9 where Christ, the Logos, is seen as the light 'which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." In this aspect he is the "Unchangeable Light" which St Augustine "with the eye of [his] soul (such as it was) saw above the same eye of [his] soul, above [his] mind" (Ch10, Confessions). He also connected this concept through the works of Shakespeare, Coleridge, Dante, and Paul to give a sense of Christ as the... for lack of a better term...as the imagination or intuition that brings illumination to the individual. He stressed the classical understanding of Reason, which included in it an aspect of intuition which would 'teach' the soul truth. He also pointed out in Augustine's "On Teaching" how, as it says in Scripture "there is one in heaven who is the teacher of all" and that it is "He Himself [who] will teach us, who has also counselled us through the instrumentality of human beings--by signs, and externally--to turn to Him internally and be instructed. He will teach us, to know and love whom is happiness of life"(Ch 14).
I do not do his lecture justice, it was one of the most fascinating Christological and epistemological discourses I have ever been priveledged enough to listen to.

I have two papers due at the end of this week. One answering the question: "What sorts of evidence can be adduced for (and against) the view that certain aspects of language are universal and innate?" The other is: "Was there an identifiable central core of Judaism in the period of 100bc to ad100?"

In an attempt to get ahead on the first essay as to give me more time later to work on the second I spent my entire day reading linguistics texts and going to linguistics lectures. One lecture series, however, I do not think I will go to again. It was vastly interesting, and the lecturer seems to be quite a good chap, but I'm afraid I am at a bit of an intellectual disadvantage, and thus have a horrible time trying to follow the whole conversation. It seems that my working knowledge of Greek and Latin are under par, not to mention my Sanskrit, Gothic, Old English, German, and Proto-Indo-European.

If you have not been following South American politics: I would suggest you tune in. This year there are roughly a dozen presidential elections happening across Latin America: that's enough to change the face of the World.

Already there have been two interesting/exciting turn of events (or is that turns of events? I can never remember how to make plural complex nouns such as that). Chile, for one, has elected their first woman leader. And Bolivia has elected the first President of Indigenous heritage. Take a look at this BBC news in pictures. It looked like a beautiful ceremony. And, while your over there at the BBC, read this article, too. Frankly, I like the new style. Maybe I'll try and get one of these Evo sweaters.

How does one write a 2000 word essay on What is Linguistics? I just read a 300+pg book on the subject, if he couldn't answer the question in 300 pages, how will I ever do so in 7?

I suppose if I start somewhere I may get somewhere else, and there is a 1 in 360ths chance that I will be heading in the right direction. And, especially if I do not go far from my starting place, I cannot get too far off course. Now I just need to find out where to begin.

Maybe more research will help...