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Hi! I havenāt posted in a while. So update: I finished my first semester of grad school with a 4.0 GPA! Iām really proud of myself. This is the top program in the country for my field and it was mostly online. Second semester started last week, so maybe I can update a bit more this time around!
In my linguistics class we had a Chinese girl who had adopted a European name. We all didnāt speak Cantonese and understood her wish to not have her name butchered all the time, except for one of us, a guy who thought he knew to differentiate between tones perfectly because he was learning Vietnamese. He saw himself as super woke and he thought it was wrong for her to adopt a European name when we should just try harder to pronounce her Chinese name (which honestly is just really difficult if you donāt speak the language at all, even for linguists). So he would constantly call her by her Chinese name which she initially didnāt even want to share, but he kept asking her for it, and from the look on her face I could tell that he did not get it right, and that she didnāt like it at all. The first time he did it she even told him it wasnāt correct, but he kept going, so sure he knew how to pronounce it. So like I 100% agree that we should put in effort to pronounce names from foreign languages and not give up on the first try if we get it wrong, but we should also respect peopleās wishes when they know we canāt do it/they know it takes too much effort for them to teach us how to pronounce it. In that case, we should just use the name weāre being told to use. Itās that simple.
Fellow linguists,Ā donāt be that guyā¢
When someone tells you what to call them, that is their name. Whether it is whatās on their birth certificate or not has literally nothing to do with you. You call them what theyāve said to call them. The end.
finally, a post about the pronunciation of names that i agree with. itās far too much effort to teach everyone i meet to say an arabic Ų¹ or an arabic glottal stop Ų” and I donāt want to go through with it constantly. my own students of arabic take about two to three weeks just to practice trying to say it, and even then itās a constant effort to learn and to pronounce it correctly every time.Ā
it also comes off as arrogant and silly for white linguistics students to assume that just because they study language in general, or a certain language in a clinical way, that they have the ability to speak that language well enough to presume upon a native speaker. even if you did speak the language well enough, you wouldnāt have that right.
just respect that i gave you an easy out with the name i introduced myself with, and that itās no skin off my back to be called it if i use it first. iāll correct you on how to pronounce THAT, because itās a string of vowels, but iāll do that because i know you can pronounce it. none of those vowels are absent from the english language, and even the configuration and order is common enough that youād be able to say it all.Ā
Yeah, Iāve actually seen some well-meaning posts that are like āmake people learn to pronounce your name!ā not realising that even the most devoted person might justā¦ not be able to. I know a lot of white Anglos can be outright dismissive of other languages, but at the same time, some sounds for non-native speakers can be difficult to hear let alone pronounce, and itās not always out of malice or a sense of superiority (not saying it canāt be of course! It sure can! Justā¦ not always). While my Bengali name is actually pretty easy to pronounce, with my Hebrew name, getting the guttural āCHā for people who arenāt familiar with Semitic languages can be a massive struggle, and I donāt particularly want to be called āRa-Hell,ā yāknow? Some people, regardless of intent, are just not good at sounds/accents, and I accept that.
The perpetual push-pull, I think, for anyone who has a name with sounds non-native speakers may have trouble with. On the one hand, being a child of immigrants myself in the US with its particular history and attitudes towards non-Anglo folks, āmake people learn to pronounce your nameā to me isā¦ choosing to take up space, refusing to be erased and whitewashed and dismissed and belittled.
On another hand, yeah, one only has so much energy to teach people to say a name, and some days itās not worth it. Lucky me, my fam set me up with an English name too (which lol my Canto fam canāt say accurately at all) because folks who donāt speak Chinese canāt usually handle the tones of my Cantonese name, even though all the phonemes exist in English too. Whatever messy argument is happening in the notes right now, sometimes no matter how much you try, the best you can get with a name from an entirely different phonological system from yours might be an approximation, and each of us gets to decide how much of an approximation weāre willing to tolerate from others at any given time, and some days (all days) that might be zero(0).
Like @kipplekipple above said, and @flange5 said in her tags: itās about consent. Itās one thing if someone is a racist jerk imposing a nickname or English name on you because they ācanāt be botheredā or āitās too hard.ā Itās an entirely different thing for someone to tell you - hey this is how Iām called. Use this name.
(TERFs donāt even clown in the notes, I see you, go away)
I do love when people ask me got clarification on my name! Usually they did get it wrong and its awkward to always bring it up myself. That being said, no means no in any situation and if someone doesnāt want to teach you then donāt make it weird.
My best friend when I was likeā¦ 13-16 was a Chinese immigrant. Her name, as we spelled it in the Latin alphabet, was Lingjie, and she had us pronounce it āLing-geeā. This was not the correct pronunciation, but one day she showed me why, when I asked why her mom pronounced it differently.
āMy name is technically [Chinese name approximated as Lingjie, but pronounced correctly]ā āSoā¦ [best attempt at real pronunciation]?ā āNo, [real pronunciation].ā ā[best attempt at correct pronunciation]?ā āNo.ā
At this point, I got a little upset, because I wanted to say my friendās name right, but I literally couldnāt hear any difference between what she was saying and what I was saying.
āItās really hard for people who grew up speaking English,ā she told me. āSo I just stick with Lingjie. Itās okay, you did pretty good for not knowing how to do it right!ā
Sheād decided that, at least for that period of her life, she would rather have an Anglicized pronunciation of her name than force herself to listen to her name be SUPER butchered by people who couldnāt figure out how they could be butchering it. If sheād wanted to have the proper pronunciation used, that wouldāve been her right and I wouldāve done my damn best to pronounce it correctly, but because she preferred the anglicized version, I used that instead.
Call people what they want to be called.
me: runs a studyblr
also me: does not study
why am i always so full of energy and determination at 1am like where is this coming from and how do i redirect it to 1pm instead
teacher: this is an extremely difficult assignment that absolutely cannot be completed the night before
my procrastinating ass: is that a challenge
Not to be dramatic, but writing two pages for this assignment is killing me. It doesnāt even have to be a full two pages according to the syllabus, but itās the first assignment for the class so I want to it to show that I put in effort and I know length =/= effort but ahhhhhhhh
Iām absolutely overthinking it because the assignment is to define location within the lens of geographic research, which isnāt hard but? Iāve been writing the first paragraph for half a day
I've made this post like six times but it still fucks me up the China's mountains just look like that. Like I spent decades thinking it was stylistic but no, they just have different mountains over there.
For reference, here's what my local mountains look like:
Here's the general art style Chinese mountains are drawn in:
And here's how some of them actually look:
What the FUCK
Iām specifically reblogging this here because I know there is a geological reason for this and I know at least one of you has to know it.
thank youĀ
your first (conference) presentation āļø
time yourself, please: i practiced once with the presentation in front of me, twice more while driving, and then again in front of a couple of colleagues. each Ā stop time was different, but i had a good gauge of how much content i would be able to cover. be the person who finishes two minutes early, youāll win hearts.
use notes if you want, just donāt go overboard: depending on your field, the norm might be to stand up and just read your paper. if thatās you, ignore this, i guess? print out your presentation (at least a version of it), and jot down notes to help clear your head. make sure theyāre easy to follow. honestly, notes are a smidge overrated. two of my colleagues were unable to use their (quite extensive) notes during their presentations, and did perfectly! trust yourself to know your material / researchā¦you are the expert!
be comfortable: no need to dress ritzy, just dress confidently. whatever that looks like for you, thatās what iām talking about. i wore a skirt and shirt, and some wedges (in hindsight, a great choice because the the podium was really tallā¦and iām not). someone else wore a smart blouse and pants, and was sitting on the floor playing with a puppy right before our panel! they were definitely comfortable.Ā
breathe: if you donāt have time to edit, fine. if you do have time, then donāt. you know how it goes, when an artist is never satisfied, and eventually their changes ruin their entire work? applicable here. if you have anything to add, itāll come to you during the presentation, or someone will ask you about during the Q&A session. whatās done is done, and within the next two hours, this will all be over!
do not rush your presentation: know what the main points of your presentation are. there have to be someĀ things that are more important than others. if your moderator is flashing five minutes, skip the little details! DONāT speed read your notes / the presentation / talk at 200 wpm. your audience will not be able to keep up. maintain your poise and control. the important thing about practicing your presentation is learning how to adapt it to the time constraints you have.Ā
enjoy the Q&A session: if you are getting questions, that means your presentation really made an impact. congrats! donāt drop the ball here, but continue to have that confidence. if someone asks you a difficult question / one you didnāt consider, thank them for bringing up the topic, and say that you would like to look into that further (even if you never do lol). heck, you may come away with some helpful information!
finally, some short points:
do not read from your slides. explain / illustrateĀ them. your audience can read!
do not read from your notes. they are there for little reminders (key words, quotes), not as a crutch.
gesture and move about. have some energy in your presence, and loosen up. if you seem happy and excited, your audience will feed from that.
itās okay to pause. if youāre out of breath, stop. if you need to collect your thoughts, stop. do not follow it with an apology, itās natural!
noĀ āQuestions?ā slide!
the first four weeks of grad school šæ
you actually DO need a binder (or two + a folder)
apparently youāre supposed to be a nerd and save all your homeworks and papers because they might be useful to refer to once youāre in your phd program (if you go that route)
if you suck at getting organized thenā¦.get organized. thereās just no choice. half the time, the stuff you need to be lined up and ready affects others (like presentations and whatnot). no cutting corners!
stick around the offices after and before class and learn whatās going on ā¦ closed mouth open ears helps you navigate the different dynamics and figure out who has issues with who ā¦ donāt put a word in yourself, though
stay on top of the paperwork, make sure your email has filters for the important people in your department so you donāt lose anything, and pin or save necessary emails so that you donāt have to hunt them down at the end of the semester
this may just be a personal thing, but i have printed versions of 90% of my readings and only physical books ā¦ i have to be on my computer enough doing write-ups and attendance and course admin that my eyes would be tired out if i had to study online too .. take care of your eyes
set goals in regard to how much time you want to spend, NOT how many things you want to accomplish ā¦ the change up is just because thereās going to be too much to do on any given day for it to make sense otherwise
work on a routine, but donāt beat yourself up if you donāt follow everything every day, this first month will still be a rollercoaster no matter what you do (i say this with papers and shredded envelopes all over my desk, my sheets halfway off my bed somehow, and random curly strands of hair everywhere)
find one (at least) person that you can really depend on, or be findable! the first day of orientation, an old classmate spotted me out of nowhere and seemed relieved that they werenāt going to be alone in the program, and was glued to me the entire week. weāre each otherās emergency contacts for certain obligations and ask questions throughout the week ā¦ have someoneās back!Ā
that leads to my next point, which is to not do things alone (me preaching to myself). make sure someone knows what youāre up to, and have contacts in graduate school and outside of it so that you can breathe.Ā
keep 30% of your sanity for the times you have to be flexible and scrap plans A through Y. the first week of school, i had to start sharing a car with my mother. the second and third week, a hurricane threatened us and four days of class were canceled.Ā
final tip: having a signature scent doesĀ make you seem put together. the one day i forgot my perfume, i felt n*ked in the skreets .. face your day smelling good lol!
September 2, 2020
Last day of summer! Today was still pretty busy all things considered. I went to the store to pick up a planner and found this cute chalkboard that I plan to use in place of a yearly paper calendar. I now have three places Iām keeping track of my schedule, which sounds like a lot, but itās needed with everything Iām doing! I also made my first homemade iced mocha oat milk latte and I seriously recommend it! (I live on iced coffee during the school year, so since I wonāt be on campus as often Iām planning to make my own iced coffee more often!)
I also finished my graduate assistant training course with honors, so yay! Iām all set for classes to start (or as ready as I can be, at least). Iām definitely nervous. Grad school is on an entirely different level from undergrad but Iām going to do my best!
Hi everyone! I havenāt been very active recently and for that Iām sorry. I didnāt really want to post much during Spring semester once we moved online because the change was so sudden and a lot to take in. Ending my undergrad that way, while I have accepted it, still is hard to take in. I was looking forward to graduation and walking, but here I am four months later and I still havenāt even received all my cords. My university announced a few days ago that our graduation will now be May 2021, over a year after it was originally scheduled. At this point, I donāt think Iām going to bother now since I will be less than a year away from finishing my Masters by then.
That being said, I completed training for my graduate assistant position today! Classes start on Wednesday and Iām looking forward to it, even though most of my time will be spent off campus. I plan to be more active again so I can keep on top of my studies more easily!
for as much as studyblr may have its faults, itās a pretty sizable online space that tells young girls that the absolute coolest thing you can do is be smart and work hard and believe in yourself and i think thatās pretty great
Today is my college graduation! The ceremony has been postponed, but today is still special. I canāt believe I have my bachelors! I love my university so much š
I know I havenāt posted much recently, but things have been a little odd since the semester moved online. My classes are going fine and itās finals! But not studying in the library has been strange. My graduation was supposed to be this Saturday, but itās been postponed with everything going on.
Good news though! Not only did I get into grad school, but I got funding and a TA position starting in the fall!
Itās that time of the semester again! For my Tourism Sustainability class, I am doing my term project on Culinary Tourism in Traverse City. Even if you have never visited and this is your first time hearing about the city, you can take the survey. Every answer will help since I canāt conduct any interviews with all of the craziness going on.
You can take the survey here!
Midterms To Do List
GEOG 5000 Chapter 6 Presentation
GEOG 5000 Term Project Proposal
GEOG 5000 Chapter 6 Reflection Essay
GWS 4100 Memo
GEOG 3200 Essay Two
GWS 3700 Midterm Paper
