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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2005-09-24 05:13 pm

done!

well.

scheduled opposite me was a talk about the rise of verb initial word order in Old Irish, which was certainly better-researched and -prepared than mine (on predicting compound stress by syntactic and semantic means).  she got eight people, apparently; i got more like twenty, including the invited guest speaker (a moderately important professor-dude).

nervous?  maybe just a little.  but, i'm told it went okay.  (i mean, it's hard for me to say, isn't it?, whether i made any sense, because i knew what i was talking about.)  i didn't run out of things to say before my time was up, and people had questions to ask afterward, so yay.  (if nobody asks any questions, it means either you didn't say anything interesting or nobody understood you.  if they do ask questions, even difficult ones, it means they respect you enough to engage in your process.)  the first question was from Invited Guest Speaker, and plus on the way out he gave me a list of other places i could look for more sources as i develop the paper!  w00t!  and, as an added bonus, i did get one question to which the answer was a graceful paraphrase of no, i'm pretty sure i know what i'm talking about there.  (the question was, essentially, "I am not a native English speaker, but in this example I think you're mistaken about how the phrase is stressed in English."  which, hi -- 'i am not a native speaker, but i think your native speaker assessment -- actually your report of another native speaker's assessment -- is wrong'?  WTF, man.  so it felt good to be able to say 'yeah -- no, i'm totally right.'  [ggg])

will now enjoy peaceful evening of doing no work at all.  at least until it's time to open the bar.


oh! and!  if i write up my paper into a proper paper, it will count as a publication when the conference proceedings are made available online in a few months' time!  that almost makes me giddier than anything else.  (i have no publications, so the idea of having one is pretty exciting in general and also in a resume-building way.  must check if will still be able to use substantial chunks of same text for thesis, though, before doing this.)

[identity profile] mearagrrl.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That's awesome, go you!

On a different note: I noticed a while back that I was saying (more than writing) "yeah, no", (as in "so it felt good to be able to say 'yeah -- no, i'm totally right.'"). What's up with that? Since when do people use that? WHY?

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't know since when, but i think what's going on there is that the 'yeah' in 'yeah, no' doesn't mean yes at all; it means i have heard and understood what you have just said. so it's a 'yeah' on the transmission, rather than the content.

there's also 'no, but yeah', in which 'no, but' doesn't mean no -- it's phonetic junk, sort of the conversational equivalent of revving the engine a bit before taking your foot off the break. and then that 'yeah' does mean yes, i agree with you.

[identity profile] mearagrrl.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I understand what it means, and use it myself, but I still find it a bit odd.

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
(should have said semantic junk, actually.)

[identity profile] ekaterinn.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
yay for a successful talk! congrats!

[identity profile] cannons-at-dawn.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, fabulous. Well done you!

[identity profile] corvidae9.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
so it felt good to be able to say 'yeah -- no, i'm totally right.

*grins along with* Oh yeah.

All in all sounds like it was pretty good there, chicklet. :D :D YAY! Well Done!!

[identity profile] orange852.livejournal.com 2005-09-24 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Pop the cork tonight, baybee!

And, I say publish that stuff! I understand one can never be too rich or too published in academe.
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[personal profile] axiom_of_stripe 2005-09-24 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
woo-hoo! go, master fox. ;)

[identity profile] anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com 2005-09-25 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
Well done you! Glad it went well.