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  * ANA BRAVO, PhD. Profesor Contratado Doctor (Associate Professor) in Spanish Syntax and Semantics. 
Department of Lengua Española y Lingüistica General http://www.um.es/web/lengua-espa/    

  * This is me. I am passionate about learning, understanding, and teaching. By myself and in the company of other colleagues and students

  * This meme, initially intended as an example of modal reasoning in everyday speech and life ;-), perfectly reflects how BEING A PROFESSOR WITHIN THE BOLONIA PROCESS -IN A SPANISH UNIVERSITY- IS: SOMETIMES IMPOSSIBLE, BARELY RESTFUL, ALWAYS CHALLENGING AND, DEFINITELY, NEVER NEVER BORING 
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                               == And here are some more about our profession ==

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 * I like this one particularly (translation: who we are, teachers! What do we want? holidays!!; what for? Writing two papers, reading two books...

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                              == and my research interests ==

Schrödinger's Plates, Inertia worlds and circumstantial modal bases, all in one: "They are both broken and not broken until you open the door". @ProfFeynman

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[[https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/1235215009170493441]]

El verbo que casi hizo naufragar el acuerdo contra el cambio climático

Francia cambió **deberá** por **debería** en el capítulo de obligaciones para que EE UU pudiera firmar el pacto de París
[[http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2015/12/13/actualidad/1450002024_762685.html]]

PARIS — It took almost two weeks for negotiators from 195 countries to finally pass the landmark climate accord this weekend after several espresso-fueled all-nighters and long, passionate debates over the meaning of a single word, such as “shall.” TNY, 13.12.15 
[[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/world/europe/a-climate-deal-6-fateful-years-in-the-making.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2Fun-climate-change-conference&action=click&contentCollection=earth&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&_r=0]]


{{1394100_531669586919455_2082657077_n.jpg|}}  No happiness out of modality


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This page was first created in December 2012.