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Oh so you're telling me the movie that glorified the atomic bomb did not address the shitsberg little los alamos suburb base coolcool, please tell me they acknowledged the demon ball lmao
A new SpecGram Podcast is out! Language Made Difficult, Vol. XLVII. The SpecGram LingNerds are joined by guest Kean Kaufmann. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds briefly discuss some innovative bits of English Grammar—no, totally!—and then try out some new parlor games featuring archaic English words. — [XML Feed]
LGBTQIA+ commentary on Pulse: 49 Voices
Shortly after the shooting at Pulse this past June, a podcaster by the name of Shaun Lau, creator of No, Totally!, noticed something funky with how the media was doing its reporting, & how quite a few marginalized voices were being erased from the narrative. So, he did something about it. In Shaun’s words:
Following the shooting, I began seeing members of the community openly worrying on social media, understandably for their lives, but also about the packaging of the attack both by major news outlets and elected officials. It seemed like coverage of the shooting was overwhelmingly formatted as cisgender, heterosexual people talking about members of the queer and Latinx community rather than talking to them. After frustrating hours of fruitlessly searching for perspective from the actual communities affected, I remembered that, in this modern world, I didn’t have to wait for any other outlet to have these conversations for me; I could do it myself.
As I started thinking about the project, something else became painfully obvious to me: I couldn’t wrap my head around the weight of 49 lives lost. I heard about a news anchor reading all 49 names on air, and was surprised to hear that this simple act took seven minutes. That number, 49, by itself, can feel small. 49 cents, 49 seconds. I wanted to understand the enormity, the massive loss of life, by talking to 49 people who identify within the LGBTQIA+ community, to understand that weight.
In the time since the massacre, Shaun interviewed 49 members of the LGBTQIA+ community for their thoughts on Pulse, as well as the communities within the larger LGBTQIA+ community & in society at large. He’s been putting the episodes out on a weekly basis. The final episode in the series, Episode 10, dropped last week, rounding out all 49 voices. And it is a gorgeous series. Each person who lent their voice to the cause added something unique, but you could also see these clear commonalities which connect us all.
I can recall bisexual, trans, gay, lesbian, asexual (aromantic), queer, nonbinary, and other members of the community lending their voices. (I’m one of them!). Women, men, and nonbinary (I think I just repeated myself a little). Outside of that you have people who are Asian American, Black American, Latinx, Chinese British, and Scottish (maybe more?) adding those perspectives. For even more representation, you have disabled people speaking up on their experiences. So it’s (for once) not just all about one. type. of. person. VARIETY! REPRESENTATION! CULTURE! A lil’ bit of everyone getting to add their voices to history.
Do yourself a treat. Subscribe to No, Totally! on iTunes, Google Play Music, or any other popular podcast app you have handy, and download the episodes. Give them a listen. Connect to your community. Cry a little. 10 episodes, 30 minutes an episode roughly…Space it out or marathon it. Our community is worth the listen.
Episode list for 49 Voices (links directly to the No, Totally! site):
Voices 1-5
Voices 6-10
Voices 11-15
Voices 16-20
Voices 21-25
Voices 26-30
Voices 31-35
Voices 36-40
Voices 41-45
Voices 46-49
For even more commentary on marginalized voices (Shaun himself is Asian American & uses his platform to boost fellow AAm people as well as others), follow Shaun on Twitter. GET YOUR LIFE.
P O D C A S T S
Here’s a full list of the podcasts I’ve guested on:
No, Totally!, where we discuss the film In Bruges, my favorite film!
Multiversal Q, where we have discussed the Josh Trank Fantastic Four, the Corman Fantastic Four, Craven’s Swamp Thing, Hellboy: Sword of Storms, Deadpool, Batman V Superman, and X-Men: Apocalypse.
Pop Culture Case Study, where we have an in-depth discussion on Blade Runner. Did a ton of research for this one! Also went on to talk about Jack Reacher and the stages of morality.
War Machine Vs. War Horse, where we talked about All the President’s Men and Shattered Glass, journalism school, and the like. This episode also discusses Spotlight.
The Waffle Press, where we dissected Boondock Saints, The Nice Guys, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Trashpect Ratio, where three other people and I cover Gone Girl in depth and also briefly talk about a bunch of films (World of Tomorrow, Rugrats in Paris, Batman v Superman, Bound, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and The Lobster).
Fireside Friends to talk about Undertale (and also The Lobster, David Lynch, and more!).
Aaron Fever Talks To… to talk about movies and life and life and movies (this one is really fun and personal).
Discourse Collective to talk about Hannibal.
haha remember when
people were complaining bc nothing eventful was happening in the earlier episodes? well ARE YOU DICKS HAPPY NOW?
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its ok :) im fine :)
“No, definitely.” “No, exactly.” “No, yes.” These curious uses turn “no” into a kind of contranym: a word that can function as its own opposite.
An interesting article in the New Yorker about “no, totally” and contranyms. Excerpt:
The use of “no” to mean “yes” appears to be an example of amelioration, but with one important distinction: “no” can’t mean “yes” on its own. Consider a slightly abridged version of Lena Dunham’s conversation about art appreciation: MARON: And then you want to hit them. DUNHAM: No. Take away the “totally” and Dunham appears to be rejecting anti-philistine violence. By contrast, you can take away the “no” without doing any evident semantic damage at all. A perfectly fine response to “Then you want to hit them” is “Totally”—or, for that matter, “Yes, totally,” or just “Yes.” In fact, every instance of “No, totally” and its kindred phrases can be replaced with “Yes,” without any disruption of grammar or meaning. So why do we sometimes use “no” instead?
The article also refers to a series of posts on Language Log about “yeah, no”, which are worth checking out.
