Holizz versus the Web

Hehe, I’m becoming rather obsessed with language at the moment. It can only be a good thing, considering my final year project is, after all, a language learning tool (well, a library with several prototype interfaces). I think I can allow myself to spend a day doing exactly what I want to do every once in a while, as long as I do my work eventually.

1. Read news (/., BBC News, OS News, etc.) for two hours
2. Shower, eat, etc.
3. Read some of Beginning Syntax
4. Go to the library to borrow The French Experience (BBC book on the subject of the French language) and Understanding Semantics
5. Read a chapter of The French Experience and a chapter of Beginning Syntax for about three hours (I’m thinking more and more about the similarities between human languages and computer languages - that is, languages designed as an interface between humans and machines - I’m not especially interested in assembly or byte-code)
6. Talk to Davina while mostly reading a resource I found today: Nihongoresources - grammar - an excellent book that teaches Japanese grammar using the Japanese terms (I still don’t know which verb group (I or II) corresponds to 一段 and 五段, and I don’t care to)
7. And now it’s nearly midnight. Bonne nuit!