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Synchronic stuff—reminds me of my ol' history class in highschool (the first thing we learned). GOSH I ALSO MET SYNTAGMATIC AND ASSOCIATIVE (PRAGMATIC) IN THIS UNIT! I feel like Kreidler referenced Saussure very much. Reading this feels like rereading semantics textbook but with a lot more details to digest. I don't understand this chapter as much as the previous ones though. I'm more interested with diachronic tho!

I'd say this unit a decent read. It's lovely to see how this specific part gives an extensive explanation on the arbitrariness of language (and changes throughout the years must not be the focus of linguistics). Yet, Saussure also stated that language is unchanging. So, yeah, language has this duality. I'm happy to see the word synchronic and diachronic again, reminds me of my highschool sociology class.

I've started reading the book again and I finished the introduction! I am now trying to read purely to study briefly OR have fun; so unless it's really important, I won't take notes (this or I won't read at all, college is killing me ;-;). Well, I learned about how linguistic came to be, its relations with other sciences, how phonetics are of different realm, and why writing has its prestige! NICE READ YAHOO!

[PAUSED] PSA Mabim DRAINED ME I promise I'll read this again some time in the future.

History of linguistics. So far the language is very understandable NGL. And I love the arguments being given here as to why linguistic structure is superior as an object of study compared to faculty of speech (wow I saw the word "aphasia" again after such a long time).

Timeline (of first being studied(?)
Proto-Indo-European > Romantic > Germanic

Introduction: check!

I'm sad because apparently Saussure's pushed to work more on other topic, causing him to kinda neglect his ideas on this books, hence no absolutely complete texts present for his future readers to learn from :(

And Chomsky mentioned as the villain here (calling Saussure's theories native) and damn everyone thought this books already outdated (I'm reading for Derrida later)