Have you ever thought about how language works?

Well, I definitely have NOT been twiddling my fingers.

Have I told you lately that I LOVE MY CLASSES?! I really do and it's kind of freaking me out because it's almost like an out-of-body experience seeing my interest in some of this stuff. The word that keeps coming up is FASCINATING. Man, but it is a load of work. I'm tired already!

Have you ever thoughts about language? Here's an excerpt from my book for intro. to linguistics:

From relatively few elements and rules in a language system, humans can produce
and understand a limitless number of sentences by combining and recombining the
same relatively few elements in relatively few patterns. Even a single week's issues of, say, Time, Newsweek, and The Economist are unlikely to repeat any sentences (other than quoted utterances), and the same is true over years of publication. The human capacity for linguistic inventiveness makes repeated sentences unlikely, and an English speaker is capable of understanding all the English sentences in a lifetime's ready. And for many observers it is this productivity - this ability to generate and understand an infinite number of sentences by combining and recombining the same few elements and structures - that is the great hallmark of human language, the one linguistic theory centrally addresses.