Hopeful for Barça...
All they need to do is be the best team in the world. TEAM!! Although strikes of brilliant individual play are always acceptable...
Visca Barça!
continental spread of the World Cup teams
thanks @JMILLERTIME for showing me this a little while ago. this is great way to see the continental spread of the world cup teams. 6 African teams (they didn't list South Africa because it didn't go through qualfying), that's awesome! i really enjoy this view of it all. sooo excited for this summer!! check it out!!!
"else", para expertos del español
"else" is one of those words that are only part of a truly advanced Spanish speaker, really covers a lot of subjectivity. http://ow.ly/1DuFj
ridiculous negation rooting the humor
I love the show Trailer Park Boys. The storylines are fast-paced with horseshit scheming that allows them to live. I absolutely love it. This is the episode where Barb gets a secret admirer and thinks it's Julian. All of the jokes are rooted in the word not, along with many other words that negate. It was humorous because Sam and Barb were saying the double- and triple-negated sentences that sounded like, well, desperate and almost funny/pathetic lower class Canadian English. They always sound like they have frustration, annoyance or depression in their tone, as daily life in the trailer park offers no alternatives. There are many high times though with lots of great friendships. But anyways, these were things that were literally said, to my most accurate effect:
I don’t know what you’re talking about ||| I can’t not be with a girl like you. ||| I can’t do this without bein stoned. ||| It’s not for me, it’s for him. ||| I don’t like you not being drunk all the time. ||| The caveman a l w a y s wins!
Check out the always runnin' JustinTV channel or it's IMDB, it's quite a show...
April's most tweeted words
I love wordles: your most tweeted words. Great word combos this time:
ow shit!
great time!
barcelona-madrid
fuck ya, lol
kick sounders!
wtf messi!
spicy sweet
think crazy!
(and the biggest and most badass) ... LIVE SHIT!
thank you, twitter
I really just want to say thank you to Twitter. Every time anything feels worthy, be it an event, picturesque moment, score, information exchange, thought or feeling, I approach my documentation of that (a tweet) in different ways. Orthography corresponds to tone, which in English corresponds to difference in meaning. Punctuation (? ! :-) :-( ;-), or what have you), and actually also orthography, in frequency and placement, corresponds to many things. For a lot of tweeters: amount of emotion, exclamation, and irony, among others.
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
still figuring out this camera...
a naturally-occurring pacman ghost!
smoke rings, test #575 ... et merci, Evelyn :-)
London en la noche...
Zonin' the fuck out...
ego boost
what if this announcement happened every time you entered a room (like it did for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor):
Charles, by the grace of God, Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King of Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile, Aragon, Leon, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Cordova, Murcia, Jaen, Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, King of Two Sicilies, of Sardinia, Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the Western and Eastern Indies, Lord of the Islands and Main Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Athens, Neopatria, Württemberg, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince of Swabia, Asturia and Catalonia, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Gorizia, Barcelona, Artois, Burgundy Palatine, Hainaut, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette, Kyburg, Namur, Roussillon, Cerdagne, Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Oristano and Gociano, Lord of Frisia, the Wendish March, Pordenone, Biscay, Molin, Salins, Tripoli and Mechelen, and titular Byzantine Emperor...
keep in mind, his empire was this map PLUS nearly all of the N e w W o r l d:
i actually don't think i would give a shit about anything anymore.
Charles, by the grace of God, Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King of Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile, Aragon, Leon, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Cordova, Murcia, Jaen, Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, King of Two Sicilies, of Sardinia, Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the Western and Eastern Indies, Lord of the Islands and Main Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Athens, Neopatria, Württemberg, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince of Swabia, Asturia and Catalonia, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Gorizia, Barcelona, Artois, Burgundy Palatine, Hainaut, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette, Kyburg, Namur, Roussillon, Cerdagne, Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Oristano and Gociano, Lord of Frisia, the Wendish March, Pordenone, Biscay, Molin, Salins, Tripoli and Mechelen, and titular Byzantine Emperor...
keep in mind, his empire was this map PLUS nearly all of the N e w W o r l d:
"El Clásico", tweeted by @rplatz
Date: April 10, 2010
Teams: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid
Venue: Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain
Teams: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid
Venue: Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain
Result: Barça wins 2-0, moving 3 points ahead in La Liga table
- LIVE: Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona, EL CLÁSICO, La Liga http://ow.ly/1wTP3 al Bernabeu, stream EN VIVO!! English --> http://ow.ly/1wTO3 !!!!
- here we go... el CLÁSICO!!!
- Dani Alves always looks like he just got out of jail. And he'd kick ur ass. Crazy eyes.
- ronaldo u dick! don't whine
- Twas a foul, but not a goalworthy foul. Good call. Keep on Messi..
- Too much bullshit... Let's play some fútbol!
- Madrid's D is tight. Barça's gotta run horizontal along top the box... if they can get it there!
- Pedro was WIDE Messi!!..
- MESSI!!!!!! that foul, that move, the look, that finish!!!!! holy shite, 1-0 en Madrid
- It's sweeet watching replays, reactions, and chat rooms in the span and eng rooms. such diff atmospheres!
- @velzeboring the touches are TOO small. can't get that fucker
- El pipa NO LO HACE!! jajaa
- And DOWN GOES Ronaldo! on momentum lol
- lookin good for barcelona at half, but with messi, xavi and alves w/ yellows, it seems like 2nd half they need to work the little triangles.
- wow, indulgement is underrated. #nowsmoking spicy gingerbread hookah, eating blue berry trix yogurt & drinkin grape koolaid :-) @rinlaithien
- Mz_Evelyn http://twitpic.com/1enhsb - REAL MADRID vs BARCELONA
- @Mz_Evelyn @JuudJonasAlways probablemente pq barça se escribe en diferentes maneras, pero sí señor, sabemos quien ganará ;-)
- I recommend it in SPanish 2nd half! LIVE: Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona, EL CLÁSICO, La Liga http://ow.ly/1wTP3 al Bernabeu, stream EN VIVO!!
- VALDÉS!! i've tweeted that like 6 times
- (2-0 barça) ayayy el bernabeu está chingado!! PEDRO ya está!!! barca real madrid #elclasico! lo tienen todo la barça!
- Iker o Victor... qué piensan para españa? #elclasico nos dice todo señores!!! @futpicante
- WTF SERGIO! chillllll #elclasico
- Ayayy xavi, que suave señor! Giddy up #elclasico!
- Barcelona, wtf r u doing? Just go!! #elclasico
- Wow! Messi v Iker, Iker wins!
- Madrilistas already leavin!! They & we all know what happened here: Barça is just better, almost completely position for position #elclasico
- there it is. barcelona's up three en la liga, messi showed up, xavi & pedro capitalized, still the reigning world champions #elclasico
- http://twitpic.com/1eo76s - clix for fútbol games today. thanks @hootsuite
aaaaand the winner IS: Messi :-) .... aaaaaaand here are the goals, with some very enthusiastic commentary:
happy 420 slip n slide ride :-)
spicy hookah (hold the hit) --> slip 'n slide --> PBR man can --> puff!
factors with twitter as corpus data
it sucks beacuse there are a lot of factors to take into account here. Lionel Messi became a worldwide trending topic (TT) on twitter (his highest being #8) only after scoring 4 goals yesterday in a Champion's League quarterfinal match vs. Arsenal, and today, Wayne Rooney is currently a worldwide TT (#7 at the moment) without scoring a goal or having an assist, there team being up against Bayern Munich 3-1 at half. The differences here could be:
- pure amount of twitter tweeters in great britain vs. spain
- pure difference in followers around the world (and also bayern munich vs. arsenal fans)
- given the actual search results for the words "Lionel Messi" reached ww TT and "Rooney" did as well, the differences in names: (Leo, Lionel) +/not Messi VS. (Wayne... and probably not anything) +/not Rooney
- The different ways English speakers and Spanish speakers can and do express themselves: "leo, lionel, argentino, leooooooo, messssiiii", or whateverr VS. the pretty much straightforward use of "Rooney", with maybe "Englishman?"... nothing else really
If these factors could be weighted or included to the point where an equilibrium between the two, it would be cool to see how the Spanish-speaking congratulates/praises a striker of the own and how the English-speaking world does the same. There is a huge amount of data, and things like this are being produced as the world spins, as things happen, as we interpret that which happens into how we feel, and how we express that. An unbelievable amount of data.
trois por toi, une por moi
i love foods with bread. it's more about the fragility and 1st placement that can make shtuff look good. three eggs, no yokes (supposed) to be broken (1 leaked a little... damnit), 3 muffin tops w/ butter and another w/ a dart tart raspberry jam for that shuga-tooth sweet toof satisfaction.
et il s'apelle: "trois por toi, une por moi" 3 for u, 1 for me ;-) #fb http://twitpic.com/1ckuze
the world cup goalie situation
what league is most representative of world cup play? we can deduce the goalies best fit for success at the world cup.. @mlstalk @futpicante
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