forthwritten
"...an unfortunately scattergun effect."
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Journal created:
on 2 September 2001 (#336414)
Updated:
on 5 April 2017
Birthdate:
20 April
Location:
United Kingdom
I'm a linguistics student and very junior researcher. More specifically, I'm an MPhil student and my project (I can't bring myself to call it a thesis yet) is in corpus linguistics. I do write about this sometimes and sometimes I even write about it in a vaguely coherent manner, but most of it at the moment is being worried, woeful and confused about obtaining my data making my data usable. I have been assured that I will be worried, woeful and confused for the next four years, but I hope that the reasons for being so will change.
Sometimes I do editing stuff because I like to pretend a degree in English actually qualifies me for something. By "editing stuff" I don't mean that I get to sit at a desk and bark orders at people; I'm more the kind of person in whose direction is thrust a sheaf of papers and a request to make it make sense please.
I like reading (although perhaps don't read as much as I used to) and music (although perhaps don't listen to as much as I used to). I also like tea, although unlike the other two, I probably should drink it rather than collect it.
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There is a friending policy of sorts on this journal: while I may challenge racism, homophobia, sexism, classism and other forms of prejudice in other places, I am not interested in arguing whether or not these exist in my own journal.
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Sometimes I do editing stuff because I like to pretend a degree in English actually qualifies me for something. By "editing stuff" I don't mean that I get to sit at a desk and bark orders at people; I'm more the kind of person in whose direction is thrust a sheaf of papers and a request to make it make sense please.
I like reading (although perhaps don't read as much as I used to) and music (although perhaps don't listen to as much as I used to). I also like tea, although unlike the other two, I probably should drink it rather than collect it.
There is a friending policy of sorts on this journal: while I may challenge racism, homophobia, sexism, classism and other forms of prejudice in other places, I am not interested in arguing whether or not these exist in my own journal.
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