done list

[trochee]

(why is it that the future uses the infinitival tense? we don't call it a "will-do list" or a "might-do" list or -- perhaps it would be the most appropriate modal -- "ought-do list". Anyway, this is a list of what I did, simple past:)

• revised paper for resubmission tomorrow (they only gave us a week to do revisions, and none of us had any time)
• finished Collins replication, part 1
• started collins replication, part 2
• went to lab meeting, listened to CSE grad student discuss her research (opinion mining)
• planned further about chapter 5 (currently masquerading as a class project): looks like we'll bootstrap from a 5xRT ASR system
• discussed previously mentioned data problems with advisor; will re-run the easy parts with larger data set.
• overscheduled self: next week I am up for (1) possibly going to [pretentious NE U] for a planning meeting and somehow at the same time staying here for visit from [expensive W-Coast U] team
• overscheduled self, part 2: scheduled to be dog [and possibly pony too] in dog-and-pony show for corporate visitors interested in my research area
• wrote a whiny very nice email to big shot asking please please please share your code with me so I don't have to implement it! Actually, I think it was quite polite.
• looked at getting a helmet so I can go scoot with imtboo

Am now just waiting for Collins, p. 2 to finish so that I can log out and go home. I'm done! I'm going home without internet. Until tomorrow, peeps!

Comments

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

I thought you were from the ATL. You are therefore licensed for "might-could-do lists."

[trochee.livejournal.com]

only us southerners are allowed to carry the double-modal sidearms.

But we have to carry them in plain sight, unless you happen to be from that "covert movement" concealed weapon school.

okay, I don't know what that means either but there's another Speculative Grammarian article in there about "raising, c-command, and gun control".

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

only us southerners are allowed to carry the double-modal sidearms

((grins))

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

Another good Speculative Grammarian article would be the +ECHO property of the lexical entry "future."

As in "Cities of the FUUUTUUURE-RE-RE-RE-RE-RE-re-re-re...", my next class (UNC code PLAN046).

Stop writing *about* it and start writing it!

[(Anonymous)]

If y'all have ideas for articles for SpecGram, you should do something about it, and write them! If you are too lazy or too busy, then you can always do a letter to the editor or a book blurb.

Anyway, as a native Texan, I have the right to not only double modals, but also triple modals if I feel like I might ought could use them, to go along with my assault rifle. However, I think only trained linguist/soldiers should ever try to use multiple modals and assault rifles at the same time.

Also, I've noticed that "doom" is +ECHO, too. "Plasma Ray of DOO-OO-OO-OO-MM-MM-MM-mm-mm-mm".

-Trey
(Managing Editor of SpecGram)

Re: Stop writing *about* it and start writing it!

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

I would write one, but i'm in the middle of a long research process to determine if "Khaaaaaaan" is +ECHO or +CHEEZE.

(And thanks for such a wonderfully amusing publication. When i get time, i would be honored to send goofy stuff your way, whether you receive it or not. =)

Re: Stop writing *about* it and start writing it!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

to determine if "Khaaaaaaan" is +ECHO or +CHEEZE.

hey!

Re: Stop writing *about* it and start writing it!

[(Anonymous)]

are +ECHO and +CHEESE mutually exclusive? Actually, are instances of +ECHO not also +CHEESE by default?

-Trey

[isolt.livejournal.com]

You mean Northerners who fall in love with double modals can't adopt them and try to promulgate them?

Woe is I.

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

I feel for you. I bin real happy till they done told me i not black enough to speak AAE.

And so i'm restricted to a very rigid, underdescriptive set of tenses and aspects. I must say, it's quite disappointing.

[isolt.livejournal.com]

Hee. I sound hilariously bad trying to speak AAVE. I am way, way, way too white, Northern and bourgeois to pull it off.