"Bueller... Bueller!"

Hello, my esteemed forgotten linguists;

Hope everybody is doing well during this crazy pandemic, which has changed our day to day routines.  After administrating my school's blog for the past month I stumbled upon this one and, wow... I can't believe this little experiment happened eight years ago and, as with many things in our lives, was sadly abandoned after a short while. Wherever these short lines find you, I hope you are doing well and that your journey as educators has been a good one. It has generally been good for me, although I confess my English teaching adventure at college was a "safety net" type thing. I finished and got my certification (which I renewed recently), although, I had no use for it.  As some of my colleagues may remember, I was (and still am) a music teacher. But, exactly 2 years ago, I was forced to exercise my talents as an English teacher at another school in my district and, after that, have done so part time, as part of an after school tutoring program. Still, no complaints; I don't regret a single minute of it. Hope to hear from any of you.  Meanwhile, stay at home and stay safe.

What's on the menu...

Phonetics anyone?

Hello fellow teachers. First confession, I'm deviating from my original plan, as I promised to start this blog to comment on a linguistics article. That gets me to my second confession, I'm a procrastinator. I must empathize with everyone. To juggle our teaching duties with our college class schedule is not easy. Now, for the sake of doing what I originally set out to do, I will kind of improvise. Professor Luna suggested we use our blogs as an anecdotical diary of our tramplings with the class and that's how this entry came to be.

I concur with our professor that phonetics and phonology are some of the least interesting aspects of Linguistics. Semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics were more interesting to me. Any which way you look at it, there are cumbersome aspects to linguistics that can get one feeling a bit impatient. Who wants to know all those tidbits on the mechanics, the rules, etc, that produce a particular language. I say, you gotta love it.

No more promises then. I need to read or else I can not write. I hope everyone finds the time to get their work done. See ya soon!

Links about Linguistics

Welcome back friends!  Want to call your attention to the links section just to the right of our blog page.  Among these, the first one is an extensive list of links about linguistics, plus some random pages with articles or links to journals with related topics. I'm at the lookout for some interesting reading myself and promise to share my impressions on my next entry. See ya!

Welcome Budding Linguists!

Hello everyone! What can I say, this might very well be a first for you as it is for me. And I find comfort in the thought that some of my esteemed colleages will (hopefully) come along for the ride as we embark together on this adventure to make fruitful discoveries about linguistics.  So, what now? Just write, write, write, and who knows? Amongst these ramblings, you might just find a speck of light, a stroke of genius (yeah, right!), a simple idea, a disturbing thought or plain silliness and feel inspired to contribute. Come along now and will see you soon.