Category: linguistics

  • Super-Quick

    A super-quick, late-night post:

    Craziness of project for school, craziness of trying (with varying degrees of success) to keep the dinner group organized, craziness with temple committee stuff, craziness starting a poetry club…. Craziness! Did I say craziness?

    All of that contrasted with The Most Relaxing Weekend EVAR (to vernaculate). I attribute the relaxatiousness of the weekend to a combination of watching General Conference, and a drive in the canyon to see the colorful trees with some friends.

    Things I wish I could be working on right now but just haven’t gotten to:

    • statistical analysis of collocations in the rongorongo corpus, plus development of GUI to facilitate it.
    • finishing the story I’ve been working on for the last few months.
    • reading “Poetry: An Introduction”.
    • really learning about graduate programs and getting my applications started.
    • solidifying/actually learning information theory and probability theory.

    As the Spanish-speakers say: ¡Uf!

    And, lastly, I’m introducing a new feature to at least this post. Here it is:

    This Post Contributes to the Endless Self-renewal of Language By:

    Promoting Uncommon Verbifications

    • to vernaculate: to use the vernacular.

    Coining New Words / Nonces

    • relaxatiousness: the quality of inducing one to experience a sensation of relaxation.
  • One Good Reason To Stay Up Till 2:03 AM

    This paper: Unsupervised Analysis for Decipherment Problems. Boring as it might sound, I think I would be happy spending much of my life working on similar problems.