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| 1. | Languages WITH academies. | French, Spanish, Hungarian, Hebrew. | |
| 2. | Codified Languages | Latin, Sanskrit, Old Church Slavonic | |
| 3. | Communication-Intentionalists | Late Wittgenstein, Austin, Grice | |
| 4. | Communicative displays in animals. | 10-35 unique displays. | |
| 5. | Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian | Same, but split due to political differences. (Different spelling - one with Cyrillic, other with roman.) | |
| 6. | Languages w/ no academies. | English, Marathi. | |
| 7. | Pygmalion | "Impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." By George Bernard Shaw | |
| 8. | Arabic colloquials | Egyptian, Algerian, etc. All have the same written "standard" Arabic, but different spoken - not all are mutually intelligible. | |
| 9. | What is "Correct" (4) | 1. Established Critera 2. Accepted variances. 3. Unaccepted variances. 4. Inventions w/ no basis. | |
| 10. | types of slips | 1. phrase exchange 2. word substitution 3. inflectional morpheme shift 4. stem morpheme exchange 5. syllable onset - anticipation 6. phonological anticipation | |
| 11. | Prescriptivist inventions with no real basis. | Dangling propositions - Dryden. I Shall vs. You Will It is I. Split infinitive: to (badly) say something | |
| 12. | Syntax: multiple meanings? | Dominant word on the right in English. Dung beetle. (A kind of beetle.) Beetle dung. (A king of dung.) | |
| 13. | Exceptions of -ize | womanize, winterize are only Germanic attachments of -ize. All the rest are Romance root words. | |
| 14. | Hindi/Urdu | Same language, different writing. | |
| 15. | Languages created by need | Pidgins & Creoles | |
| 16. | Formal Semantics people | Chomsky, Frege, Russell, early Wittgenstein |