Another "come see me in my office."

"Are you openly admitting that you are lazy right now?"

"Yes. Do I really have to read this?"

"You're a college student! Skim read....?"

"I don't do that. Never learned that."

"I'll email you. Tuesday, have it done."

"I'm going to D.C. this weekend."

"Good luck."

"Why do I have to have this language? And why do people suck?"

"Well. Go to grad school and change that. And because, you picked it."

"But I didn't knowwwww.This is supposed to be an easy class."

"..."

"By easy I mean, it's a two-thousand level class. You know what I mean."

"Three more weeks. You're in college. Work hard."

"Do I get extra credit for giving street presentations with my poster."



For the record!
One day, a long time from now, when I graduate and wonder what sorts of things I was thinking through and processing. It's stuff like this (unedited and unfinished) <--lazy college student.

        Hopi is most widely recognized because of Benjamin Whorf and his conclusions drawn from studying the Hopi language. Upon discovering a lack of vocabulary for terms such as hour, minute, second and year, he came to the conclusion that the Hopi people may very well experience time in an entirely different fashion. Out of this was born the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the theory of linguistic relativity. Over time the theory has been ebbed and cleaned up, with the basic belief that language does in some ways shape the way one experiences reality (or notices reality, for some linguistic belief systems). One of the most powerful things learned from the Hopi tribe is the way in which human language puts language to non-spatial reality in a metaphorical manner. The non-spatial entity realized here is time. The metaphors created to conceptualize time now slip under the radar of Indo-European languages. “Most English speakers are not even aware of their ingrained habits of spatial-temporal metaphorizing. Overuse of a particular analogy or image produces ‘dead metaphors,’ which cease to be recognized as metaphors” (Malotki 1983 p.14).  When someone uses words such as long, extra, or less to describe time, they are thus shaping time into a sizeable body that is directly affecting one’s reality. Another English/Indo-European metaphorical understanding of time is that of a commodity. One can lose, make have, kill, or spend time. That being said, let us look at the Hopi understanding of time. Turns out, against the conclusions of Benjamin Whorf, the Hopi do experience time. Generally speaking as a nonprofessional linguist, I realize that the Hopi people experience time in two different kinds of ways. The first we will look at is through their word inventory and structures for day, night, and seasons. The second concept upon which we will visit is the structure system suffix cases that are attached to third person pronominals. These are the two main ways in which the Hopi put language to their spatial orientation.

First, day and night. day - taala - extensive and vast repetiore. Night. Nothingness with exception of night dances.

Secondly, central to analyzing a speakers configuration of space are identifying the “linguistic coordinates that dissect the area taken up by the speaker, hearer and the persons or things other than the speaker and hearer.” Hopi speakers use the same markers as English speakers’ here, there, over yonder with ya-, pa-, and aya-. Malotki (1983) presses further to explain, “morphologically, [the Hopi’s] corresponding adverbs of place crystallize around a series of third person pronominal bases, of which there are four.” Hopi does not have a personal form of third person pronoun and therefore third person is used only for orientation, referred to as “locator bases: a-, ya-, pa, and aya-.” Attached to these locator bases are “primary orientational distinctions” manifested in three forms: location, goal, and source.  In normal terms, pronominal objects are mentioned by location, source, or destination. Further, time is realized within the motion or non-motion of the object. These three cases are referred to as locative, destinative, and ablative. Locative has four further cases, destinative has two, and ablative is considered only one.

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