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Finally, I had a chance to post some examples like those we worked out near the end of class. You can follow this link to get them: His book’s cover melted.

I’ve heard from a couple of people whose textbooks have not arrived yet. If you are one of these people, ask Google about “monkey banana that the being” (use the quotes around it) and “*The bears snuffles” (use quotes here too). Look down around the third result, coming from Pomona.

Although it’s almost certainly a copyright infringement of some sort that these are on the web, it’s nevertheless not my copyright infringement, and I don’t think there’s any harm in my noting how to get Google to find them. And, for you, your real-life book is presumably on its way, so it seems pretty harmless to make use of what Google can find for you. The entire book is not on the web, as far as I know, only the first couple of chapters.

I see that you have found the blog. Great!

So, having gotten through the first class of the course, let me note a couple of things that I didn’t actually mention in class, in all of the technological confusion.

The syllabus/schedule I handed out mentioned a survey as “homework.” It’s not serious, it’s just a little questionnaire asking things like what languages you speak. I would like you to fill it out (or just email me the answers), but I’ll mention that on Thursday. Having handed in or not handed in the survey does not have anything to do with the “homework” part of the course grade.

So far, we’re still basically on schedule, just a couple of slides from today left over for Thursday.

Also, take a look at chapter 1 in the Adger textbook, which covers these kind of bigger picture things from today, but also try to look through chapter 2, sections 2.1 to 2.4.1 (as indicated on the syllabus I handed out today), since that’s what I’ll be talking about on Thursday.