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sebastienneto those of you more academically-minded than me:
"is the vocabulary spurt a significant event in lexical development?"
why is it "a gross mis-reading of the question" to discuss lexical development in its entirety and then evaluate whether or not the vocabulary spurt is a significant event within it? why should i have taken the question to mean "discuss the vocabulary spurt, and different theories for its etiology" ? she actually said to me, "what you seem to have done is discuss whether or not the vocabulary spurt is particularly noteworthy". am i making some elementary error in my understanding of the english language, here?
5th week. FIFTH WEEK. my first language and cognition tutorial, and my essay is pointless and off-topic, a 2.2-. my tute partners give presentations i do not understand. it feels like i'm being pointedly misunderstood when i try to explain things - have i lost the ability to communicate? i wonder, typing here now, do these words say what i mean them to?
this is the first tute i've had since getting back to oxford, although it's the third i've turned up to (one was postponed a week, and nobody told me, the other is because i can't tell the difference between "5" and "7")... something isn't right, and i'm starting to think it's inside my own head.
ETA: clouds, sivler linings, and so on: i just got to use the vaguely wildean phrase, "no, i'm not in college. i'm in the department, and tears" (cf "she left in floods of tears and a sedan chair." was that wilde? i cannot think why he'd be talking about sedan chairs, but my head is telling me it was - oh god i can't even adequately place wilde any more, there is something wrong in my head)
"is the vocabulary spurt a significant event in lexical development?"
why is it "a gross mis-reading of the question" to discuss lexical development in its entirety and then evaluate whether or not the vocabulary spurt is a significant event within it? why should i have taken the question to mean "discuss the vocabulary spurt, and different theories for its etiology" ? she actually said to me, "what you seem to have done is discuss whether or not the vocabulary spurt is particularly noteworthy". am i making some elementary error in my understanding of the english language, here?
5th week. FIFTH WEEK. my first language and cognition tutorial, and my essay is pointless and off-topic, a 2.2-. my tute partners give presentations i do not understand. it feels like i'm being pointedly misunderstood when i try to explain things - have i lost the ability to communicate? i wonder, typing here now, do these words say what i mean them to?
this is the first tute i've had since getting back to oxford, although it's the third i've turned up to (one was postponed a week, and nobody told me, the other is because i can't tell the difference between "5" and "7")... something isn't right, and i'm starting to think it's inside my own head.
ETA: clouds, sivler linings, and so on: i just got to use the vaguely wildean phrase, "no, i'm not in college. i'm in the department, and tears" (cf "she left in floods of tears and a sedan chair." was that wilde? i cannot think why he'd be talking about sedan chairs, but my head is telling me it was - oh god i can't even adequately place wilde any more, there is something wrong in my head)
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Date: 2006-02-16 07:11 pm (UTC)