Ugh the malls were terrible...was wishing Dawn of the Dead was happening in them...no i couldn't get that darn lucky...
However..me and Momma went to Cajuns on the good ol Acadia U campus...now i know what i am getting for Christmas..mind you they should have had these for sale YEARS ago!!!!
Life at Andrew's is ok...its been a hard ol two weeks..but what isn't when your not ready at all..even though things were set up to be ok...but thrown off a bit..i know its the season of niceness and stuff but man still has to work and continue making $$$ otherwise...well ya know..forget it... i just want things to run smoothly..however there are always going to be difficulties and shit that goes wrong from time to time...or week to week or shall i say day to day..im just glad i got some good workers and Mr Montalban to keep things interesting from time to time...
How is the ol linguistics going? Well it is going..today i just finished my fourty-four page reading for Chapter Six about Syntax and i as soon as i post my answers in the discussion forums, i am onto Chapter Seven...
Knowing a language includes the ability to construct phrases and sentences out of morphemes and words. The part of the grammar representing a speaker's knowledge of these structures and their formation is called syntax. Sentences are not random strings of words. Some strings of words that we can interpret are not sentences. We understand this, we recognize it as ungrammatical, we can fix this up to make it grammatical. To be a sentence words must conform to specific patterns determined by the syntactic rules of the language.
Grammaticality isn't based on what's taught in school but on the rules constructed unconsciously as children. Children acquire most of the syntactic rules of their language before they are able to read. Your syntactic knowledge tells you if something is grammatical. These judgements do not depend on whether the sentence is meaningful or not. Many sentences exhibit ambiguities with sometimes humorous results. For example look at this sentence...
“For sale, an antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers”- The legs and drawers belong to the desk, not to the lady who would be purchasing the desk.
Yesterday a Guiness Record was set in Ann Arbour, Michigan as 113,411 people came to watch an outdoor hockey game between Michigan and Michigan State...i do like how one person pointed out that the attendance at this game surpassed the total combined season attendance of the Coyotes, Thrashers, and Islanders....now what i would love to see is the Axemen and say SMU play an outdoor game some year...how about next year at either Raymond Field and or Huskies Stadium in Hfx?!?!? It would be great publicity for both AUS/ CIS Hockey...i know i know Old Man Robb stuff like this costs $$$$ but it would be an event to be seen...i don't think no 113,411 people would show up...but it would be fun!
Speaking of the Axemen...it is Christmas break time..but there are exhibition games coming up against U of T and i believe against SMU at the Appledome in Berwick...time to get some donair eggrolls and see some Axemen hockey in Berk! Huskies Stadium badly needs repairs, its press box was closed because of mould..the poor stadium was built in 1969 and is literally falling apart and what does Halifax do? It is so so so time for a new stadium in Halifax...look at Moncton and that beautiful facility that snatched the Uteck Bowl away...that snatched the CFL exhibition game away...cash must be found for an upgrade for Huskies Stadium..what if the health board steps in and says this place is unfit? Unsanitary for public usage? I think it is time for corporate backing like Laval has for its programs...get their names up in lights, heck Keith's could use a little bit of good publicity after their recent let's move the brewing out of province fiasco...Keith's Stadium..hmmm kinda got a ring to it eh? Sure not traditional...but those corporate dollars leading to more recruitment meaning cash all around, and with some promotion a nice new improved stadium...better facility equals asses in seats...
Had a McDonalds Egg-Nogg Milkshake the other day...the less said the better as it had to be the WORST Raunchy Ron's product i have EVER consumed in my life... after that fiasco the damn Shamrock Shake best be back on St Patrick Roy Day or whatever to soothe that one over...
In news that makes Old Man Robb happy as peach pie, A Call For Submission is playing West Side Charlie's in New Minas on Sat night...darn good show when i saw them at the Capital earlier this year...would be more pleased if they did their cover of Motorhead's Ace of Spades again which last time resulted in a duet with Old Man Robb...well a partial duet.. they are also playing on Jan 22nd at the Dirty Touque (Top Hat) highly recommendded says Old Man Robb...
Wonder what brother Blair got me for Christmas..bet Billy Dee knows...
All this depressing news this week or well the last week or so eh? Iran and its nuclear ambitions...what's the price here? If Iran is to be prevented from spreading havoc and selling their nuclear weaponry technology around the world, its nuclear facilities must be taken out, and the sooner the better; the alternative is disaster for everyone...and all this crazy Wikileaks stuff...perhaps what Wikileaks has done is simply just prove alot of stuff was true over the years...it just wasn't reported by the wankers in the media...the major problem here is that the Americans and others want to kill the messenger and not the real source of the leaks. Wikileaks did not steal these documents....someone else did.
Thank God the Metrodome in Minnesota didn't collapse during a frickin game...scary...
Anywho that is all for now folks! Have a good one!
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