Status Updates From An Introduction to Language

IPA, Grice's Cooperative Principle, Semantics, Pragmatics, Implicatures, Presuppositions, and many others! I loved revisiting these concepts again!

"Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it"

-Henry David Thoreau

«There are physiological & psychological reasons that limit the number of adjectives, adverbs, clauses, & so on that we actually produce & understand.
Speakers may run out of breath, lose track of what they’ve said, or die of old age before they are finished.» :)))))

No, I'm not in Uni/College anymore. But I'm reading this because I love Linguistics. Lol

Do we know only what we see, or do we see what we somehow already know?

-Cynthia Ozick

"Hardly a moment of our waking lives is free from words, and even in our dreams we talk and are talked to. We also talk when there is no one to answer."