here are pictures from the first three months in Burkina, that horrid monster known as: training!
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Miss Masala, it's unfair that no one responds to you out there! I've been following baby steps for months and haven't responded either. It's been a real education, following you, and I'm impressed at your honest and humor-ful approach to it. Also jealous of your linguistic adventures. In my own college days ('68-'72) I majored in historical linguistics at a time when no one who wished to be taken seriously could breathe a suspicion that the other language groups in the world might be demonstrably related to the Indo-European ones. Recently I read a fascinating book by Merrit Ruhlen, rather pretientiously entitled The Origin of Language (because that's not what it's really about). But what he does do is convincingly demonstrate just that. I found myself quizzing my father's medical aides, who were African, on vocabulary items, and how exciting it was to here them come out with words which according to Ruhlen are among the oldest in the world and related to words in use in language families around the world... I haven't read The Audacity of Hope yet, but did read his book on Searching for his father, which was good. By way of contrast to your weather, here (Philadelphia), we have thunder, lightning, and rain for the 2nd night in a row (though last night I was at a college well-known to you for the graduation of someone also well-known to you! Bon courage! -- le pere de Marie
2 comments:
Miss Masala, it's unfair that no one responds to you out there! I've been following baby steps for months and haven't responded either. It's been a real education, following you, and I'm impressed at your honest and humor-ful approach to it. Also jealous of your linguistic adventures. In my own college days ('68-'72) I majored in historical linguistics at a time when no one who wished to be taken seriously could breathe a suspicion that the other language groups in the world might be demonstrably related to the Indo-European ones. Recently I read a fascinating book by Merrit Ruhlen, rather pretientiously entitled The Origin of Language (because that's not what it's really about). But what he does do is convincingly demonstrate just that. I found myself quizzing my father's medical aides, who were African, on vocabulary items, and how exciting it was to here them come out with words which according to Ruhlen are among the oldest in the world and related to words in use in language families around the world...
I haven't read The Audacity of Hope yet, but did read his book on Searching for his father, which was good.
By way of contrast to your weather, here (Philadelphia), we have thunder, lightning, and rain for the 2nd night in a row (though last night I was at a college well-known to you for the graduation of someone also well-known to you!
Bon courage!
-- le pere de Marie
i am definitely enjoying my linguistic adventures. i can carry on conversations in sounds i've never imagined in my life. it's quite wonderful.
vraiment, merci beaucoup pour votre encouragement!
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