Linguistics

"Have you already eaten or not?" asks someone, and the other answers "I have eaten". That is how you say hello in the Chinese dialect Teochew. "I have eaten" is simply the traditional answer and has nothing to do with whether or not you have actually eaten.
Wohooo? So far linguistics seems quite the right choice! Interesting results ensue when you are equipped with a basic understanding of the grammatical structure of a certain language combined with a very small vocabulary... You start experimenting, forming new sentences, some of them utterly nonsensial. And you feel you are loving it!

So far I've only had Language Analysis (direct translation of the Danish name for the course...) and Phonetics. Both interesting in each their way, showing how utterly fucked language can be given certain grammatical rules or the molesting of basic pronunciation. Both teachers approaches their respective subjects with contagious enthusiasm, and it completely eliminated all my fears. This was of course only the beginning; I may yet have to take my words back at some point. My last two courses seem obscure because I know very few details about them, but hopefully their quality will match what I've seen so far. If not, well, bad luck :P

And I had an MR-scan... Not something I hope I will ever have again. It can stir even the tiniest fraction of claustrophobia that might be hidden in the dark corners of your mind.... although the worst part to me was not the sense of being trapped inside a tube; it was the sound of the machine that seemed to push my body from all directions, making me feel as though my brain was being squeezed out. Mmmmmmmmmm...!

It sounds worse than it is - the worst part only lasted for 3 minutes. I had headphones on that allowed me to hear some tranquil music - that was what kept me sane for the 20 or so minutes it lasted. I just hope I'll know the results before too long :)

Tomorrow I'll have a course that has to do with the media... or something. Media analysis. I'll have to wait and see what that's all about.

Anyway, that's all for today/tonight.
/T out.