Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
4/20: everyday words
I asked each of the Etymology students to write a short paragraph about a word (its history and development) that they've encountered recently in their daily lives. Everybody then read everyone else's and made connections. I wanted them to think about etymology beyond an academic context, and I wanted them to share a little window into their world since we're now separated. And two of them explicitly mentioned that they liked the spirit of it.
No comments:
Post a Comment