I might have placed my faith in the clause which stated that adventurous essays will be rewarded... too far.
I was writing this essay on the external and internal history of Old English and then suddenly I had this idea and I investigated the logic of speculating about missing accounts of external history through deduction from internal history.
Arguing that it was a logical fallacy, an affirmation of the consequence, I commented that we should be trying harder when figuring out history since the past is a foreign country and our duty is to make our best guess we should really be doing our best guessing... and for starters, do away with methods which aren't even logical to begin with.
But that's really... hijacking a linguistics paper with philosophy isn't it?
I feel sort of cross, I actually began research on this essay since a long time back but I spent a lot of time flirting with topics which were beyond me.
When I finally settled on one (that is, wrote beyond 400 words for it), I realised that I needed to invoke something which I cannot be sure will receive the professor's approval.
I can really, really, really, do so much better.
I hereby pledge to spend my summer break reading linguistics books.
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