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running out of room in an essay: the U.S.
needing to fill up more space in an essay: the United States of America, the freedom powerhouse of the world, above Mexico, below Canada, lemme pledge allegiance to that fine ass flag, God bless America, amen
A classic novel isn’t good because it’s a classic, rather it is a classic because it was important to the development of the art. And that certainly doesn’t mean that any given person, on any given day, will enjoy reading it. It means that, as a writer, I should be aware of what the classic novel changed in the historical progression of novel story telling. Some classics are pretty terrible, even unreadable, but they are still important.
This goes for movies too.
And musicals!
Definitely one of my favourite moments from Bread Week! Tom will not be led into your gutter, Mel. :P
I can’t stop constantly narrating my own life. At that very moment, I feared I had divulged too much.
Mark Hamill speaking to fans at Oxford Union.
concept: a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman. they are friends. neither is secretly in love with the other. They spend time together, just the two of them, and don’t feel the need to hook up. Their spouses don’t worry about them.
gasps heard from every tv station
WATCH THIS
I just went from having 0 feelings either negative or positive about Taylor Lautner and after watching this and with no other knowledge of him as a person I fully believe that he is a gift to humanity if for nothing other than this single contribution.
[captions]
Taylor: “So some of my fans know that I have a weird ability of catching things with my mouth; most often grapes. [catches grape in his mouth] One fan mentioned grapes are too easy, so I call this the ‘Fruit Toss Challenge’.”
[music plays in the background]
[Taylor catches a strawberry, and then an avocado. The grapefruit smacks him in the mouth but he does not catch it. Several attempts with bananas are unsuccesful. Another grapefruit smacks him in the face. He laughs and throws it on the ground.]
Taylor: “Get in my mouth! [to the camera] Let’s go!”
[He slaps away a box of strawberries]
Taylor: [irritated] “Not. The box. Of strawberries!”
Friend: “Oh.”
Taylor: [irritated] “One strawberry!”
[watermelon crashes at Taylor’s feet, he gingerly steps back]
Taylor: “Are you kidding me?”
[cake is thrown and smashes into Taylor’s face]
Taylor: “What is this? I thought - [spits out cake]- I thought this was a fruit toss challenge?”
Friend: “It’s a fruitcake.”
Taylor: [incredulous] “Fruitcake?”
Friend: “Yeah, man, fruitcake.”
Taylor: “Unbelievable.”
As Caleb says “bad butt”
at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents
Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.
whAT THE FUCK
I’m too tired for this
Always add in the video that according to linguists, Native southern drawl is a slowed down British.
T’ be or not t’be, y’all.
Fun fact: Same thing happened with the French accent. French Canadians still have the original French accent from the 15th century.
Êt’e ou n’pô zêt’e, vous z’auts.
I’ve been trying to find this post for months. I’m freakishly obsessed with this and want the truth of what early colonists sounded like.
Everything in this post is wrong though? Americans didn't ‘keep’ the ‘origional’ British accents. Yes, speeding up certain southern accents near original British ports does sound like an English accent (which is fascinating!), as it developed from English. However, other southern accents show the same with French (we've got the French Creole in New Orleans which is just gorgeous to listen to) and some with Italian (New York). French accents both in France and Canada will have evolved since the 15th century. Yes, French Canadians may have an accent closer to that of the 15th century, but it has by no means remained the same.
Historians can claim Shakepeare sounds better in an American accent, and if you want to do the same, by all mean go for it! But it certainly isn't because it was first preformed in an American accent. For starters, there isn't one single American, British, or any single accent in a country. I'd recommend David and Ben Crystal here. The two have numerous works on OP, or Original Pronunciation. Original Pronunciation is the accent of Shakespear’s London, a mix of American, Austrailian, Bristol (UK), and several other cities around Britian. This is accent was created through the movement of people into London, where the accents mixed and created OP, then moved to port cities as people migrated to America and Australia.
No new/newer society keeps an ‘'original’ accent/dialect. Language is constantly evolving! None of us speak in the same way as our ancestors. Some accents and dialects have older features and are definitely older than others (like Yorkshire, we still often use ‘thee’) and some are newer (MLE, which much like OP is a London based mixture that is spreading outward).
https://youtu.be/Hi-rejaoP7U <- Here's a Ben Crystal lecture on OP
https://youtu.be/qYiYd9RcK5M <- Here’s Hamlet in OP as well.
Also, ‘accent’ has never has never had a long ‘a’ in its life and sounds ridiculous. Colonists wouldn't have taken the long ‘a’ with them, as it was not introduced until the 19th century and remains in the south of England.
Stephanie Beatriz’s Instagram and Snapchat - August 31, 2016
The cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine have a hot sauce eating contest
Ling Space Resource Post
Lots of people are going back to school around now, and so it’s a good time for us to put together an easy resource post: highlights from our different video series, separated by subfield.
So, without further ado, here’s the highlight list of our first two years by topic!
Phonetics:
The International Phonetic Alphabet, and why we need it
Places and manners of articulation for consonants
Non-pulmonic consonants: ejectives, implosives, and clicks
Vowels and vowel production
The acoustics of vowels
The acoustics of stops and fricatives
Phonology:
What are phonemes?
What are allophones?
The structure of syllables
Phonological stress and feet
Morphology:
What is a morpheme?
Roots and affixes: prefixes, suffixes, infixes
Allomorphy
Morphological typology and word building
Derivational and inflectional morphology
Syntax:
X’ Theory and the basics of building syntactic trees
Syntactic movement and the traces it leaves behind
Theta roles and the Theta Criterion
Binding Theory and Principles A, B, and C
Syntactic islands and movement restrictions
Semantics and pragmatics:
Sentential logic and language
Predicate logic and quantifiers
Set theory and adjectives
The Gricean conversational maxims
Implicatures, entailments, and presuppositions
Relevance Theory
Acquisition:
Universal Grammar, and some reasons to believe in it
Bilingualism, and how kids don’t have problems with it
Linguistic transfer in second language acquisition
The wug test
Word learning strategies in children
Why negative evidence doesn’t help kids learn
Psycholinguistics:
Where language is found in the brain
Neurolinguistic processing and event-related brain potentials
Aphasia and language loss
Priming and links between concepts
Sentence parsing and garden paths
That’s not even half our episodes, too. If you want to see more on these topics and much more linguistics, you can check out our different playlists on YouTube. And good luck!
A great companion post to my back to school linguistics resource roundup, especially if you prefer to get your information in video form.
