i feel like i skipped a bunch of stuff from my paper when i was presenting it today - but that's ok, because if you guys want to read it, its like two posts down from this one ;)
also, dr. sexson said our last posts should be up by wednesday, and tomorrow is my birthday so i know i won't be blogging (because i'll be p-a-r-t-y'ing lol), and i figured i'd do my farewell blog today...
i think the most important thing i've learned in this class is that oral cultures and writing cultures are not the same, but there are enough similarities and connections between the two that, instead of just co-existing with each other, they help each other exist. i feel like you cannot have one without the other (especially in this day and age), and when they are combined, the world becomes a better place. that sounds dorky, but i don't think anyone can argue that less communication is better than more communication...that just doesn't make sense. what better way to communicate than to use both oral and literal advantages - if you really want to make a point, why *just* print it or *just* say it or *just* gesture it? i want more - i want a fully encompassing oraliterate community! chicka chicka yeah.
also, this class made me want to go back in time and be the first person to know how to read, and then be labeled as a heretic (or a devil woman, whatever), because it'd be amazing to see cultures that have no written word yet. how would they know if one of their friends was dyslexic? ;)
....anyway, i feel like i learned alot from this class, and i wish non-english majors were required to take it so they could see the importance of words and language and how studying the english language isn't irrelevant just because everyone speaks it nowadays. if we didn't know how our language and writing systems evolved, we'd be like that kid who will jump off a bridge just because everyone else was doing it.
that is all. farewell, english 337....
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