http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/blog/71 en http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/my-evaluation-please-peer-review-for-me <p>Greetings everyone,</p> <p>I am not going to be in class this Thursday, So I&#39;ve arranged to simply post my eval up here, and have ya&#39;ll give me feed back to take me through the &#39;peer review&#39; process without being actually present.</p> <p>I really appreciate it, thank you! </p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px">Eliana Stockwell-Ferber</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px">Evaluation</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px">Creoles Pidgins and Minority Dialects</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px">Fall 2008</p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/my-evaluation-please-peer-review-for-me">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/my-evaluation-please-peer-review-for-me#comment Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:49:06 -0800 stoela25 166 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/greetings-i-hope-this-works <p>My name is Eliana,</p> <p> and I&#39;m not truly tech-savvy, so I&#39;m a wee bit apprehensive about this. I&#39;ve never written a &#39;blog&#39;, which maybe is strange of our generation. I was not at class for week two. This is because I&#39;m Jewish and that day was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. I was thinking about linguistics however. I don&#39;t know much Hebrew, which is the language that all Jews, no matter what other languages they speak or where they live, share somehow. So, I was thinkin&#39;. . . Hebrew was a language created around some pretty major religious principles, and was not used as an every day language in some parts of its history. The result is a language that has the capacity to not communicate a sense of time. One can speak Hebrew to convey very clear messages about time, but in the Torah (the first five books of the Bible and Jew&#39;s holy script). God says things like &quot;and it was good&quot; after creating everything, but translated, that could mean &quot;it was good, it is good, it will be good...&quot;. This, I think, reflects some way cool ideas in Jewish mysticism about time as being multi-dimensional, everything and nothing, a spectrum... and all that trippy stuff. This is so exciting to me, that language can reflect cultural, even religious concepts. </p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/greetings-i-hope-this-works">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage/greetings-i-hope-this-works#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:28:39 -0700 stoela25 150 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/scienceoflanguage