Linguistics
So, I'm getting linguistics books for Christmas...
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Ogordemir99 Posted: 12/8/2006 2:14:26 PM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 001
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legend789 Posted: 4/18/2007 7:51:34 PM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 002
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>_> What kinda linguistic books?
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Ogordemir99 Posted: 5/9/2007 9:12:00 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 003
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One was on introductory phonetics. I sadly was already quite familiar with all the material, although I enjoyed the brief portion on acoustics. Phonetics and phonology will be hell in college nonetheless, as I can't make half those sounds.

The other book was on introductory semantics and pragmatics, a field I knew very little about, and which I found quite interesting. I used to want to be a semanticist, but there's a point where formal semantics bores you to no end, and that point is the point you find out what it is. If I wanted to get into semantics I'd get a degree in IR and women's studies and start writing postmodernist drivel - it'd be easier, and it'd get me easy women.
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Rock Badger Posted: 5/10/2007 1:33:43 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 004
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Can you make the Mandarin Wade-Giles Romanization "r" sound?

Or, maybe easier:

How,in one-hundred words or less, does the human brain work?
Ogordemir99 Posted: 5/10/2007 3:29:56 AM UTC | Message Detail | Filter | Author Profile | # 005
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Can you make the Mandarin Wade-Giles Romanization "r" sound?

Orthography is not the same as phonology, and anyway:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mandarin_pts.htm

As far as I can tell, there's no "r" character in Wade-Giles, although j stands for an r-like retroflex flap (Wiki page here) which no, I can't make. I can't make retroflex sounds period except maybe the plosive variety and even that sounds horrid out of my mouth.

What's interesting about that flap is that it doesn't seem to be in Mandarin's inventory (conveniently available courtesy of Wikipedia here), although it's mentioned elsewhere (like here). My guess is the people at Wikipedia are morons.

As for your other question, I'm not a neurologist or neuroscientist, but I assume it involves some sort of brain tissue doing some sort of something.
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