Introduction to Linguistics / Tagalog

First things first: what with all the hoo-ha about the car (R.I.P.), visiting friends, going to Germany to celebrate Mum's birthday, I forgot to post that I have received a TON of BOOKS from the PHILIPPINES! YAY! Now all I have to do is learn Tagalog ... (huggles hellcatjelybean)

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Now, a user announcement:

It's very likely that I'm going to start teaching an Introduction to Linguistics course at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, soon - i.e. in two weeks. Since quite a few of you seem to be interested in all matters linguistic, I plan to make my handouts available from my LJ. But since they will contain my RL name, I shall protect them - with a special Linguistics Friends filter. I may also add links to powerpoint slides and material on speech perception and sociolinguistics, if I get to teach that.

If you would like to be on that Linguistics filter, mail me (perceval@livejournal.com) or leave a note on this entry. I'm more than happy to provide support for the material I post - feel free to ask any questions you like. If you want to use some of the material for your own teaching, you're free to do so - just drop me a line to tell me you're using it!

ficlet

( Inbetween work ficlet )

... using the three words I posted at stolensocks web site where we're trying to bulk up our writing muscles in time for NaNoWriMo. Time: 45 minutes with work interruptions :) continuation of earlier ficlet.

Oh, and as for the music: My colleague, the one who sits just opposite, gets phoned by her boyfriend for at least 10 minutes every day. In an open plan office. Ok, she's here, he's in the States. And I keep editing my LJ. And there are lots of non-work-related conversations going on in the office all day anyway. Still :S