Monday, August 2nd, 2004

Time	Event
8:56p	You've been a very naughty boy Erm, yes. So I found something linguistically interesting. A sentence along the lines 'he was laughing at Harry's parents' wedding', and you see that's interesting cos English has two verbs, 'laugh' and 'laugh at', and the plain one can take a locative adjunct 'at the wedding' while the phrasal one can take a direct object 'the wedding'; and what's really interesting is if the context is not knowing whether Sirius is a traitor or loyal, it can be interpreted as either. So finishing that book counts towards doing my dissertation, which, if my creaky alcohol-addled memory serves me correctly, is on linguistics. Look, there's six weeks till I have to hand the effing thing in. Easy. I'll just make up some more completely mad rubbish about axons and dendrites and graph theory and use a Time-Turner to make up for how much time I spend rereading the next two books instead of writing the, um, whatever it is I'm meant to be doing. Piece. Of. Cake. Current Mood: complacent Current Music: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Laughing Unlearnt (5 Comments | Comment on this)
9:23p	Languagehat It's gone, or might be gone, or I might be doing it wrong. On a really good day I can tell the difference between a computer and a pulley, lever, or inclined plane, if I squint. Anyone out there who knows more about machines than that and can explain why I can see a directory of Languagehat archives but just white space for Languagehat itself? Later It's back. It was spam wot dun it. Current Music: Tan Dun (3 Comments | Comment on this)

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