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Goodbye lmaooo

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Someone’s saying it

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OH WOW!!!

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XP/98 Remix

https://youtu.be/dsU3B0W3TMs

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The Golden Age of Television.

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Little fact about French because I just learned that

The accent circonflexe (^) exists in French words to replace the “s” that no longer exists but used to be there in older French.

For example: fenêtre used to be fenestre

It is still possible to see the “s” at times in family words like “défenestrer”.

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knowing this, « être » becomes much more regular :

être  → estre (es, est, sommes, ê[s]tes, sont ; ser-)

some French derivations become clearer :

fenêtre   → défenestrer → L. fenestra

fête   → festival

hôpital → hospitaliser (E. hospital, ise)

intérêt  → intéressant (E. interest, -ing)

ancêtre  → ancestral (E. ancestor, -ral)

arrêt    → arrestation

épître  → épistolaire (E. epistle)

some English cognates become more obvious :

hôtel  → hostel (E. ‘hotel’ borrowed from French)

forêt  → forest (tipp to remember ^ goes on the ‹e›)

bête  → beast

côte  → coast

honnête → honest

pâte, pâté → pasta, paste

quête   → quest

enquête  → inquest

tempête  → tempest

vêtements → vestments (ie. clothes)

baptême → baptism

sometimes, the acute replaces the circumfex for phonetic reasons :

ḗcole   → escole → L. schola (E. school)

ḗtranger   → estrangier (E. stranger)

ḗtudier   → estudier (E. study)

dḗgoûtant → desgoustant (E. disgusting)

dḗbarquer → desembarquer (E. disembark)

rḗpondre  → respondre (E. respond)

rḗpublique → L. res publica

Also, where « c → ch » (eg. cantare→ chanter) :

château → castel (E. castle)

pêcher → L. piscare

and « w → gu » (eg. war→ guerre ; warden→ guardian) :

guêpe → E. wasp ! (this is my n° 1 favourite cognate)

bonus etymologies :

tête   → L. testa

fantôme  → L. phantasma (E. ‘phantom’ borrowed from French)

Pâques  → Gk. pásxa → Am. pésaḫ (E. Paschal)

Also just be aware that the circumflex has some other uses too, like distinguishing « sur — sûr » or « dû » and the vowel quality in « âge »

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Where was this post when I was doing A-Level French! This is actually a really interesting language change called “syncope” (the loss of a medial segment within a word) and what makes it even more interesting to me is that not only was the -s- dropped post vocalically and largely before voiceless stops, but that the circumflex was (unnecessarily but coolly) adopted as an orthographic marker of the lost -s-. Even more interesting is that syncope usually occurs in vowels. I love this.

[hayley-studies]

What’s just occurred to me that’s even better is that the loss of the medial -s- likely resulted in the preceding vowel being lengthened (known as “compensatory lengthening” - a phenomenon that I’m not likely to forget as my lecturer made a dick joke about it), and that the circumflexed vowel is actually an indication of the lengthening process that occurred as a result of the syncope of the -s-. I could write a whole essay about this I’m fascinated.

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For future reference

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Visit Original Link

here’s a sloppy future house remix I made in 2 hours of an extremely good vine

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When you spend three hours tracking down a quote

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The Orchestra by Marko Rantanen

Finnish photographer Marko Rantanen has brought  alive the new visual identity of Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra through impactful photography that perfectly captures the power and energy of the orchestra’s music.

Thinker by nature, what intrigues Marko’s projects are the diversity of the end results. Because of his fascination for storytelling, Marko has expanded his creative expression into both stills and moving images.

via graphigeek

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When my students take photos of the slides and don't turn off the shutter sound on their phones/tablets

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When the librarian asks if you need help with the microfilm reader

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this is my MTV’s True Life

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NPR's Austin 100 is up and Running!

Put on your headphones and listen to 100 of NPR Music's favorite songs from SXSW 2015.  http://apps.npr.org/austin/

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Of course Prince played basketball in middle school. Nice shorts.

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Coming Attraction: "The Actress"