A few days back Amy posted about my new whiteboard. The scrawlings you saw on the board were preliminary notes for a presentation about the linguistic framework proposed by Charles-James Bailey, a presentation that I made today in Historical and Comparative Linguistics. You can see the presentation here, but you probably don’t want to. That’s okay. (The slide that you see here has a quote from Bailey I particularly liked.)

I got some positive feedback from my classmates about the 50-minute presentation (it was assigned as a 20-minute deal, but I got permission by email last night to go long). I mention the positive comments because — though directed to me — they belonged to my wife. Last night she patiently sat through my presentation (in its first draft) and made some pedagogical and organizational recommendations that resulted in a talk that actually made sense to the class. (The resulting presentation resembled the original draft … not at all!)

Thanks, Aim!

(Oh yeah, and she made me yummy pizza for when I got home.)