Thursday, October 06, 2005
quote of the week:
"the first rule of comparative linguistics is that you've got to know what to compare."
-professor holland
at the risk of this blog becoming a serial love letter to historical linguistics, just let me say that this is one of those statements that really struck me as quiet brilliance. it seems obvious on its face, but not only is it the kind of thing that gets slippery in practice (that's part of what makes this stuff fun though, guessing at dropped first syllables, metathesized sounds, etc.) but it can also be metaphorically extended to other things in life. deep thoughts from my 9a class, fun!
midterm tomorrow, another on tuesday.
i'm not really worried.
(well maybe a little)
"the first rule of comparative linguistics is that you've got to know what to compare."
-professor holland
at the risk of this blog becoming a serial love letter to historical linguistics, just let me say that this is one of those statements that really struck me as quiet brilliance. it seems obvious on its face, but not only is it the kind of thing that gets slippery in practice (that's part of what makes this stuff fun though, guessing at dropped first syllables, metathesized sounds, etc.) but it can also be metaphorically extended to other things in life. deep thoughts from my 9a class, fun!
midterm tomorrow, another on tuesday.
i'm not really worried.
(well maybe a little)
# posted by amy @ 10:41 AM 
