Charley's Blog

   Semicolon comic Link I think it is really cool how language can be viewed in certain ways that lets us try and trace back from whence it came. it is treated in very much the same way as a family tree. and beyond that, we can use it to see where a certain group may have migrated, based upon which words they have picked up. the video about tenses was interesting. It quickly got really complicated, but I feel like french is much more specific about it. we are vague and use a lot of words to describe a specific tense, while french has different endings for all of the different tenses. I like how much work has gone into creating fictional languages. I particularly like how Tolkien elvish split off into various tribes and how the language changed and evolved from there. I love the way that they chose to explain semicolons; they did it in a cool video game esque fashion. here is a link to the language, grammar, and punctuation videos

 a bear with a coke Link the warriors went out and caught a bear for food. the bear had a cub who they gave to an old lonely women. she raised this cub and it grew to understand human. it played with the children until it became to big, then the men, and then eventually went hunting with them. it caught a lot of good food for them to eat, but another tribe almost killed it not knowing it was friend. the old woman gave it a collar so it could be recognized. a man in the north heard of this bear that nobody dared kill, so he set out to kill it. the woman warned the bear to never harm a human, unless they attack first. the bear came home with this dead north man and the woman had to get rid of the bear for surely others would come to fighht him. she drew a big black circle on his side and set him free. people still speak of occasionally seeing a bear as big as a glacier with a big black spot on its side. a lame little boy lost his parents and sister. ghosts came into his hous...