2/29: "leap" words on leap day
It just so happened that in the Etymology class today we covered words that contain the Latin base for "leap": assail, sally, salmon, insult, desultory, salient, resilient, result, exultation!
2/28: the opportunity
...to think about words. Of course, I think about words a lot, both for work and for pleasure. But whenever I teach Etymology I get a chance to think about them more and differently, and that's a good and welcome thing. Right now I get to teach Etymology only once every three or four years, and it may have to be rotated out of my course offerings entirely (alas), so I'm going to try to make sure to enjoy this semester's class as much as possible.
Today I was glad to finish reading my students' book reviews on Knowles' How to Read a Word, discover some new-to-me eggcorns, write an assignment description for a class project on word studies related to our campus, see Ingrid Sundberg's color thesaurus, and come upon the word "listicle" (I have a soft spot for diminutives).
Today I was glad to finish reading my students' book reviews on Knowles' How to Read a Word, discover some new-to-me eggcorns, write an assignment description for a class project on word studies related to our campus, see Ingrid Sundberg's color thesaurus, and come upon the word "listicle" (I have a soft spot for diminutives).
2/27: getting out
...of a sinkhole I inadvertently created for myself on Thursday night. On Thursday night I wrote an email which was supposed to aid efficiency but which instead made Friday into a quagmire. This afternoon I wrote an email that at least for awhile (the rest of the weekend?) takes me out of it (or so I hope).
2/26: some good interactions
...with students today--in the classroom, after class chatting, and in office hours. Especially welcome in a day filled with some less pleasant things.
2/25: a few students
...seemed to really enjoy the picturebook and graphic novel images I projected in class today, and they stayed afterward to page through the actual books and write down the titles so they could buy some of the titles themselves.
2/24: reviews
I'm reading my students' reviews of How to Read a Word by Elizabeth Knowles. I'm only half-way through the stack, but so far they're doing a careful and balanced job.
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