View on linguistics

With all the new terms we are learning it would be helpful to start a linguistic dictionary. I think I understand all the terms but many times I find myself confusing them. The terms extra, intra and inter sentential are a bit confusing. Actually many of the terms I think will have the same meaning for one idea. Or on the other hand, one term will have many meanings like the word code-switch. From the beginning of class to now we have learned different meanings of the term based mostly on peoples opinions, whether they agree with it or not. Linguistics seems like science, there is no true solution and if one is found it can be redone for new results. In addition, the results will continue to change due to people, beliefs and environments changing (just like science). Yet, this idea is what keeps it interesting, since people can create or have an idea about a topic, test it and give results based on their investigation.