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- Have you been diagnosed with prostate cancer?
- no
- What brings you to the New Prostate Cancer InfoLink social network?
- I learned about the network through a friend.
- Would you help us grow the network? Would you tell others about it?
- yes
- About Me:
- I teach English as a Second Language at the secondary level and teach a linguistics class at a state university. I love to keep learning and growing. I like reading, writing, running, hiking and travel. I'm going to Taiwan this summer to teach English in an elementary school. I am into health and fitness and I have conservative political views.
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I am scheduled to leave for Taiwan on June 28th. I'm pretty excited about this opportunity to be immersed in a different culture.
I ended up working two days of the holiday: the deadline draws nigh for our software release next month. But I'll get it back in June when we go out and catch up with long-distance relatives.
Linguistically, I dabble with passion. I notice trends, such as the vanishing -d from English past participles or new conventions to convey emphasis or hesitancy. I predict the mainstreaming of "they" as a singular unsexed pronoun will occur within my lifetime. I'm watching with fascination the attenuation and evanescence of "whom", and appalled at seeing "phenomenon" and "criterion" used as the plurals of "phenomena" and "criteria" (!?!) I'm also taken with trivia, such as the five different words that are spelled "mole", or the nine homophones of "air".
But most of all, I'm fascinated by the way people use language to liberate and handcuff their thoughts and their interpersonal interactions. Human languages are ecosystems (echosystems?) commensal with human cultures and thoughts; their phenotype vocabularies consist of words whose genes are phonemes and glyphs. (I can go on at some length on this topic.)
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. You honor his memory by getting acquainted with the condition that claimed him.
As for me, I'm a post-prostatectomy patient with aggressive (Gleason 9=5+4) cancer. In the year since my diagnosis, surgery has failed, and a clinical trial made little or no difference. I'm now weighing my options regarding oncologists, tests, and further treatments, and am constantly reading and writing in an effort to get and give a clearer picture in a domain of muzzy possibilities and conflicting claims.
Like you, I have a strong interest in language and linguistics, but only as a hobby; professionally, I'm in software. I've been partnered for 23 years and have one grown daughter.
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