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	<description>Intuitions :: Inspirations :: Inclinations</description>
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		<title>On Sisyphus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some ways, Sisyphus is lucky. He knows exactly what the consequences of his actions will be, and this continually gives him purpose. He is assured of, for lack of a better term, job security. He never has to worry about the future, because he has already lived it. There may not be relief, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=37&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Month Later&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone reading this? If so, apologies for the delay in updating. This quarter is hella busy, so new posts will be few and far between, if that at all. Between courseloads, new people, and some personal issues, life could be better. Then again, it could be much worse. But would I have any less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=36&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insights From Sign Languages (Final Paper)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sign languages are probably as old as spoken languages, if not older, though only in the past few centuries has it gained prominence. The first school for deaf children was founded by Abbé de l’Épée in 1755 Paris. Laurent Clerc, one of Épée’s graduates, would, along with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, go on to create the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=34&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wørd of the Year is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truthiness. It&#8217;s official, according to Merriam-Webster&#8216;s annual survey of language. From Yahoo/AP: &#8220;We&#8217;re at a point where what constitutes truth is a question on a lot of people&#8217;s minds, and truth has become up for grabs,&#8221; said Merriam-Webster president John Morse. &#8220;&#8216;Truthiness&#8217; is a playful way for us to think about a very important issue.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=32&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Insurgency of 1861-65&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t resist blogging this. I found as I casually glanced over the newspaper (New York Times, I think). In any case, it ties in perfectly with what we&#8217;re talking about in class (click it to see the full image).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=30&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bringin&#8217; Back Minority Languages, Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mel Gibson is hoping to &#8220;make Mayan &#8216;cool&#8217;&#8221; with his new movie, Apocalypto. A similar event happend when The Passion came out. Aramaic (and to a much smaller degree, Latin) saw a renewal of attention and scholarship post-release. Here, however, the situation is murkier. From what I remember, Gibson&#8217;s choice of Latin and Aramaic in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=29&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mega Post Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The first part of this was supposed to be posted on Monday, but the server crashed and deleted half of it. Hence the extra long post.) [commence tryptophan-less rant] Over break, I came across two interesting language related articles, both of which dealt with birds. The first was a short summary of research done by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=28&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Annoying Vowels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I had another post drafted, waiting in the wings, but my increasing frustration with IHUM led me to publish this one.) In Visions of Mortality, we&#8217;re currently reading the Bhagavad-Gita, a tiny (yet pithy) excerpt of the Mahabharata, a colossal Sanskrit epic of familial strife and redemption. It&#8217;s an engaging, interesting, and enlightening tale, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=27&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Language Tidbits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across two really interesting articles today. I shall briefly describe them, for the sake of time (I nee to be awake in sub-9 hours). 1. ISN: A very interesting story about Nicaraguan deaf children who, having never learned any formal language, when brought together naturally created Nicaraguan Sign Language. It parallels much of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=25&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a friend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s article was inspired by a short visit to Facebook. Those who know me know I abhor Facebook and anything remotely resembling it. That hasn&#8217;t stopped my compatriots from creating a group dedicated to the sole purpose of getting me to join Facebook. I decided to see if this group really existed, for I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocean57.wordpress.com&amp;blog=391701&amp;post=24&amp;subd=ocean57&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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