I'll have to remember that next time I need to fake my way through presentations. :D
The premise is pretty cool, but we aren't really going in depth about anything. There was this one interesting bit about how even thought our language only has the gender-neutral third person pronoun 'hän', and it lacks masculine or feminine articles, it doesn't mean that our language doesn't have gendered qualities. A lot of professions contain the word 'mies'(=man) and many sayings are gender-specific in the same way they are in English e.g. "to cry like a girl".
The writing certainly isn't bad. I like how it twists and turns and keeps me interested, but it also slows me down considerably. You know, I'd love to read like that. I'm not even sure if I know how to do logical analysis! (I'm recruiting you as my own personal grammar nazi for my BBB if I get it written. JSYK.)
Oh! I have a course like that next semester! It's all based on gender-specification and how it came to be and if it will ever be set aside (Italian nouns, pronouns and adjectives are all gender-specific. Most people have problems learning English because of the gender-neutral aspect of the language). I'm hoping the professor will be good, because often the premise is amazing, but when you finally sit in class for the lecture, it turns out to be a nightmare of bore and clichés.
Logical analysis is pretty easy and fun to do :) Well, actually, logical clause analysis is fun. Plain old logical analysis is a pain (that's the one where you have to divide a sentence in phrases and then recognise every phrase for their syntactic properties; as long as you have to name the subject phrase and the verb one it's okay, but as soon as you reach the complements it all turns into a slow, painful process because there are ten thousand different kinds of complements and, apart from those 4 or 5 basic ones, recognising them from one another is the hardest thing ever). Clause analysis, on the other hand, is a walk in the park :) And ahahah. I'm an Italian grammar wiz, but English is not my mother tongue. I did get straight As in my language courses at uni, but you might want to get a native speaker for betaing. I'm really good at spotting typos, though :)
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The premise is pretty cool, but we aren't really going in depth about anything. There was this one interesting bit about how even thought our language only has the gender-neutral third person pronoun 'hän', and it lacks masculine or feminine articles, it doesn't mean that our language doesn't have gendered qualities. A lot of professions contain the word 'mies'(=man) and many sayings are gender-specific in the same way they are in English e.g. "to cry like a girl".
The writing certainly isn't bad. I like how it twists and turns and keeps me interested, but it also slows me down considerably.
You know, I'd love to read like that. I'm not even sure if I know how to do logical analysis! (I'm recruiting you as my own personal grammar nazi for my BBB if I get it written. JSYK.)
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Logical analysis is pretty easy and fun to do :) Well, actually, logical clause analysis is fun. Plain old logical analysis is a pain (that's the one where you have to divide a sentence in phrases and then recognise every phrase for their syntactic properties; as long as you have to name the subject phrase and the verb one it's okay, but as soon as you reach the complements it all turns into a slow, painful process because there are ten thousand different kinds of complements and, apart from those 4 or 5 basic ones, recognising them from one another is the hardest thing ever). Clause analysis, on the other hand, is a walk in the park :)
And ahahah. I'm an Italian grammar wiz, but English is not my mother tongue. I did get straight As in my language courses at uni, but you might want to get a native speaker for betaing. I'm really good at spotting typos, though :)