Uneducated I
I have two things to confess.
First, I waited, again, until midnight to start blogging. This makes me loopy.
And second, I say “nu-cu-lur”. I know it’s spelled like it’s “supposed to” be pronounced. Nuclear. I also know I’m in graduate school and I shouldn’t be harboring all these uneducated colloquialisms in my lexicon. But I trump both points. For I am also a linguist! I celebrate my sub-standard form! I grew up saying it, and now, with my tiny set of linguistic oddities I like to pretend are my “Seattle accent”, I must embrace my nuclear. I’m also keeping my short /uh/ “roof”. And my short /e/ “Vegas”. And I’m also too tired to try and figure out how to put any of this in IPA tonight. Oh well.
Half of that aversion is that I spent all afternoon making notes on Trubetzkoi and thus arm wrestling IPA into my wiki program. Tried to find a more wonderful way to get Linux and IPA together, but it looked like more installing and futzing than I could do at that moment right in the middle of my reading. That didn’t stop me from installing all the rest of the language packages though! Got most my non-Latin scripts up and running.
Other things that happened today: I finished grading two sections worth of homework! Also, the Lawyers had us over for delicious dinner and we checked out their Hawaii photos and caught up on news. I got my Trubetzkoi done (though after typing his name all day I’ve really taken to wanting to call him “Trubz”) which was my set goal du jour. Also the kitty wasn’t feeling well this morning, but I think he’s gotten over it. Seems to be doing decently this evening, though I’ll keep an ojo on him. Oh, and reading Trubz gave me an idea for my 260 fieldwork as well… gotta see if I can follow up on that tomorrow. Decently successful!