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The first light after the rain. Spring in Zion National Park.

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I added a sprinkle of fun to my friend's vine "never making a vine with you again"

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Do You No

do you no what get out of my house

home.

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The Zoolander 2 Trailer Is Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-Looking

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[David] Fincher: Scorsese once told me, “The things you do poorly are as much a part of your style as the things you do well…” Which was totally true, and oddly reassuring.

A-List Directors, interviewed by Sam Mendes | Features | Empire

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Our last night in France. (at Miroir D'eau)

at Lyon, France

allthingslinguistic

An interesting article about the “pop-punk voice”: “I made a linguistics professor listen to a Blink-182 song and analyze the accent”. The song is in the video above, and an excerpt from the article is below, although the whole thing’s worth reading:

Penelope Eckert, a linguistics professor at Stanford, is one of the foremost scholars examining what’s known as the “California Shift.” The California Shift is a linguistic theory covering the particular changes in dialect that affect the Pacific coast of the United States. Eckert was nice enough to humor me and listen several times to a song I chose based on its particularly egregious “pop-punk voice,” Blink-182’s “First Date.” I love the song, but am aware others may find it horribly annoying. “It really does sound like someone’s messing around,” she told me. […]

Eckert walked me through the Blink-182 song word by word, pointing out places where DeLonge was playing around with accent. “When they say ‘to pick you up on our very first date,’ the interesting thing about ‘date’ is that he renders it as a monophthong ‘dehhht’ instead of ‘date,’ says Eckert. “In most American English it’s a diphthong.” A diphthong is a vowel sound with two simpler sounds in it; for most Americans, “date” is a kind of compound vowel made up of the “eh” sound and the “ee” sound. Not so much for Tom DeLonge, who eliminates all but the “eh,” making it a single sound, or a monophthong.

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Reblogging because Penelope Eckert is a total badass.

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The more you know. -Ariel

skunkbear

Some 240 million years ago, this 8-inch-long critter lived in a large lake, in a fairly warm, subtropical climate. But it didn’t have the kind of shell modern turtles have, says Hans-Dieter Sues, a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

“It has the real beginnings of the belly shell developing,” says Sues, “little rib-like structures beginning to fuse together into larger plates.”

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