No, au contraire, for the arrows that connect these intriguing linguistic disciplines are my guide to all the subtleties and complexities that are language. It's beautiful!
subtle yet deep
No, au contraire, for the arrows that connect these intriguing linguistic disciplines are my guide to all the subtleties and complexities that are language. It's beautiful!
Perspective
Some simple & rational perspective on the purpose of the universe from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on @minutephysics. These are the simple, blunt & frankly obvious reasons why I don't find religion... worth it. I'd rather hold out for some real empirical answers. I mean, we've come this far, and at the same time, have barely scratched the surface in so many disciplines.
For now, why not just live, love, laugh and learn everyone?
the last 5 months...
- graduated with my MA (Spanish - Sociolinguistics)
- accepted to Penn State's MA/PhD program (dual-title: Hispanic Linguistics & Language Science)
- moved across the country and now living with 4 other students in Pennsylvania
- my best friend got married! congrats joe & caitlin :-) my best man speech was pretty good, too
- supporting my sister through her divorce. she & her kids deserve better!
- my 2 year old nephew can talk!
- broke up with my girlfriend... now i'm single and ok with that
- joined NFL and NBA fantasy leagues... go james harden & cam newton!
- presented at my first professional academic conference: "1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas & 5th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics"
- met up with an internet friend in real life that i met 13 YEARS AGO on aol instant messenger... now i'm going to see her again in december! thank you, internet
- visited my friend in NYC who also started grad school on the east coast
- i voted. and he won! also proud of my home state Washington for going gay & green :-)
- made contacts from the UK while in Charlotte and might present at a conference in East Anglia this summer!
resolutions
-posture!
-get more music!!!
-eat out only once a week
-save 15% of paycheck
-1hr/day exercise with weekly time trial (1 mile on track)
-1hr/day reading news/current events
-1hr/day french & portuguese
-4hrs/day thesis
come on ryan, i know you can!
PhD choices...
1. U of Washington, U of Michigan, Ohio State
2. Northwestern, U of Illinois, NYU, U of Toronto
3. Berkeley, Penn
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i defriended you because...
you've answered a question about me; fuck you, i'm me.
eres una puta.
you've harvested an acre of digital farmland.
you "like" something that sucks.
you're in a relationship; becoming single is cool, tho.
your phone is back on.
you're my ex, & you shouldn't care anymore.
you're a family member that won't approve of me.
but always tell me if you have a sweet pic, go somewhere new, give a fuck, or complain about something that matters.
Never neglect self-reflection.
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
The only constant in my life is myself; consistent evaluation, reflection & construction of who, what & why I am are the only things that can bring me fulfillment.
I'm all about efficiency. Self-reflection is the only path to true metaphysical tranquility & maintaining one's core moral system. As far as maximizing life experiences & relationships with others, this is the most efficient thing a human being can do; I will.
Pour mon amie Anna :-)
Anna ne m’a jamais donné des conseils directement, ce que je admirais et j’ai appris d’elle. Je m’ai rendu compte qu’il faut qu’on soit très optimiste pour avoir la capacité d'avancer socialement. Mais, parallèlement, il est nécessaire qu’on ne prétende jamais d'être quelqu’un qu’on n’est pas. Aussi, bien qu’on puisse faire des décisions qui ne sont pas bonnes du tout, il continue d'être indispensable qu’on entretienne les mêmes objectifs dans la vie. Plus que tout mes autres amis, Anna reste en contact avec la plupart de ses amis. J’admire ça et je veux être comme elle à cet égard. En fait, je suis très désolé que je ne lui ai pas téléphoner depuis plusieurs mois... donc je le fait tout de suite!
Go(s)(es), Mimicking and Tastes
"Have a go at goal."
"Have a few go(s)(es) at goal".
I feel like most people would write "go's", which would be incorrect because the apostrophe is not possessive or indicating a contraction.
So... gos (which I would intuitively pronounce /gaws/)?
Not goes, it is already a word.
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When we mimic a non-native speaker in our native tongue, we apply their language's phonological rules to our native language (e.g. "We we-rr theenkeeng a leetel beet", my impersonation of a Mexican speaking English). Just the same, I mimic beginners in Spanish (having their American English accent, e.g. "Mei llamoh Carly, coh-moh estaws?"), applying my native language's phonological rules to a foreign language... What could we learn from this? Would it only highlight the phonetic subtleties that non-native speakers are 'known for' producing in a foreign language, or more?
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All of the tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, savory) have been made into adjectives (except salty, which I'm not really sure about...) that don't necessarily pertain to taste and others a few have been verbalized, yet in different ways.
"That was sweet."
"I wish we could sweeten it up a little."
"What a bitter bitch, she is."
("Bitter" verb form?)
("Salty" as a non-food adjective?) "She's so salty today." (?) Seems contextual, but could work
("Salty" verb form?)
"Please don't have that sour attitude."
("Sour" verb form?)
"Wow, what a savory moment."
"A win to savor_ for Blackpool." ... but was this because umami (most often translated to 'savory') was only first described in 1908? 'Savory' is related to French 'savoir' (to know), so 'to savor' was around for a lot longer than the adjective form 'savory'.
I guess one could always say "salt __ up", "bitter __ up", but it is interesting to see that some tastes have penetrated our minds to the point that the sensations we get when enjoying them can be applied to other situations outside of the food realm.
Wolves chomp ManU
Wolverhampton up on Man U in the 70'???? I must tune in...
27 minutes ago
#ThePlaceToBe : Wolverhampton, England. Their last place Wolves just took down an undefeated Manchester United, a streak of over 10 months!!
3 minutes ago
#WolvesWin! #WolvesWin!
2 minutes ago
A reason I love sports.
#WeNeedToTalk

i REALLY must know....
tweet
This really does raise some serious questions...
down the rabbit hole
"What the bleep do we know?" http://ow.ly/2CUST fall down the rabbit hole :-pp quantum mechanics blows it all up ::: gracias Ileana :-)
trailer park / aliens / world cup 400AD
Me & God
my facebook update:
Wearing earplugs, I don't if my breathing or movements is annoying my roommate. I can never know, so why should I worry? I just have to be civil. This is also how I feel about God.
my tweet:
Wearing earplugs, dunno if my breathing/movements annoy roommate. I can never know, so y should I worry? I just have to be civil.... Atheism
"Michio Kaku on God" on the side
if we found Him (that's the only time i'm ever capitalizing this), would there be a need, desire, interest (, obligation?) for the guy who created us to talk to us? from how blindly human i am, i wouldn't give a shit about those things i made that one day in my m u l t i v e r s e (the megaverse of universes).
do humans even know what questions we are to be asking? but isn't that always the question: questioning our methods(?)... how can we enhance the whole questioning process? does our 'creator' or reason for way of living have anything to do with what we should do, how we should live, what we should want to know?
LET ME KNOW !
Michio Kaku on God - YouTube
this, that & how they interact
tweet
Equal Subjectivity - Religion and Language
"Will any realist agree w/ me that religion is JUST as subjective as language? i.e. If u live in Iran, u'll prob speak Persian & be Muslim, OR if ur from the USA, u'll prob speak English & be Christian. If u agree, shouldnt this subjectivity put ur belief into some perspective? If u take it as a "sign" u were born in USA & Christianity "found" u, than no need to comment, for u've already turned a blind eye to my logic"
My Facebook Status Update, 10:16am, 06/29/2010
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***UPDATE: 11 hours later - 23 comments, 5 'likes'
thank you, twitter
In the process of these decisions I must make during the creation of each tweet, I spend a lot of time thinking about how I'm setting the context of what I am saying. This process takes from no time to a whole lot of it. Sometimes, it is instantaneous, to the point that I have tweeted three times, only due to my urgency resulting in spelling mistakes (again, sorry for all y'all getting all 3 of those texts @elewaniii). On the other hand, I 've at times spent several minutes thinking of the manner in which I want to express something that is incredibly big news. I have even thought how I will (not would, will) tweet when I have a child, get engaged, move around the world and even about the deaths of others. I sometimes try to create the mental representation of the ideal arrangement of characters that would result in the best tweet for that situation. I take in reference the frame of the others that this would affect & how much it would affect them.
That hopefully not sounding like a ridiculous case of social paranoia, I find it very mentally stimulating from a linguistic standpoint. Questions that start with and involve, for instance, if --> then, what if, how would & would it really do provoke one to (most of the time subliminally) reference syntax, semantics, pragmatics (and I guess therefore semiotics), morphology, and even phonology if the tweet literally becomes vocal (like mine do especially with other languages). Bringing these mental processes to the conscious or perceptable levels rather than just doing them from the subliminal is, for me, at least, very undoubtedly fun, interesting, hypothetically intriguing and like i said, stimulating.
La lingua twittera is something that could not have a particular grammar due to it's great application to ALL languages, but offers its users an incredible amount of variance in ability to tweet what one desires to communicate. Is there a book on this? No no... should there be a book on that? Um, DEFinitely.
Thank you Twitter,
@rplatz
