Th;log 9?

This week our group presentation were due. While I learned many things about sentences (my topic), I am not so sure I learned very much about anything else. I guess I was just too nervous with how I well of a job I will do with presenting my part of the PowerPoint. However hedged language may have stuck with me (haha). Basically what I learned about hedged language is that you want to use it whenever you don't want to sound arrogant/unprofessional about a certain topic. It entails making your claims less “harsh” by including words that give the chance for some Leeway in the discussion. For example, you might hear someone say, “Breaking bad is the best show ever!” However, if you want to correctly state your opinion, you should say, “ Breaking bad may be the best show ever!” I was actually curious whether or not this rule applied to every claim. Zack clarified that you use hedged language whenever you are talking in more of a soft science area (politics, psychology, the humanities), however you will state with one hundred percent certainty your claim in any hard science (calculus, biology, economics). Other presentations such as the apostrophes and semicolons were fun and interesting too, just for some reason the only presentation besides my own about complete and incomplete sentences was the hedged language one.

Song of the week: Not today!