MONDAY STUDYING

Unfortunately, I finished work on Friday. I spent all the whole weekend at home doing nothing. Today I am beginning to study pragmatics, which is a subject about what does an utterance means, that is the meaning of what speakers want to communicate. There are several characteristics that you must take into account; appropriateness, relevance, inference, indirect meaning, misfires, context etc. It seems an easy subject at first sight. Now I'm spending the evening reading about the birth of the English language. Old English, it was a language used by the seven tribes that settled in England after the Roman Invasion. They were the inhabitants of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent, Essex, Sussex and Wessex. Old English has many characteristics that differ from Modern English; differences of spelling and pronunciation, full inflections (forms are given for the four cases, nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative) and germanic vocabulary. For example: Stān (stone) is masculine, mōna (moon) is masculine, but sunne (sun)is feminine, as in German.

MONDAY STUDYING

Unfortunately I finished work on Friday. I spent all the weekend at home doing nothing. Today I began to study pragmatics which is a subject about what an utterance means or the meaning of what speakers want to communicate. There are several characteristics that you must take into account, appropriateness, relevance, inference, indirect meaning, misfires, context etc. It seems an easy subject at first sight. Now I'm spending the evening reading about the birth of the English language: Old English, it was a language used by the seven tribes that settled in England after the Roman Invasion. They were the inhabitants of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent, Essex, Sussex and Wessex. Old English has many characteristics that differ from Modern English: differences of spelling and pronunciation, full inflections (forms are given for the four cases, nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative), germanic vocabulary. For example: Stān (stone) is masculine, mōna (moon) is masculine, but sunne (sun)is feminine, as in German.