this thing* in PHX +

*(thing = "Her Secret is Patience", by Janet Ehelman) info




probing ASUheaven horn
re-redoneback in da game!
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i REALLY must know....

I must know: What is the relationship between being empathetic & being polite?

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This really does raise some serious questions...
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History of _______

Documentaries on history, religion, and basically displacement/shifts of people and the like have been all that has interested me outside the realm of fútbol (and randomly, poker) lately. Google video has plenty of them around an hour long... here are some of my favorites:

History of Europe: The Ancient Islamic World - http://ow.ly/3cZIE
History of God - http://ow.ly/3cZIV
Art, Sociology: "Brazil & its Music" - http://ow.ly/3cZJv
China: Ancient civilizations of China - http://ow.ly/3cZM9
Welcome to North Korea - http://ow.ly/3cZA9
The Japanese Knights (Samurai) - http://ow.ly/3cZPx
When the Moors Ruled in Spain - http://ow.ly/3cZSt

Britain AD
1 - King Arthur's Britain - http://ow.ly/3cZKd
2 - The Invasion That Never Was - http://ow.ly/3cZKr
3 - The Not So Dark Ages - http://ow.ly/3cZLi

Barbarians...
The ('primitive') Celts - http://ow.ly/3cZEC
The ('savage') Goths - http://ow.ly/3cZF0
The Mongols - http://ow.ly/3cZFB
The Vikings - http://ow.ly/3cZFO
The Franks - http://ow.ly/3cZH1
The Vandals - http://ow.ly/3cZIa
"The Brainy Barbarians" (Greeks & Persians) - http://ow.ly/3cZQU
Barbarians: "The end of the world" - http://ow.ly/3cZHm

Thanks Google Video!!!
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possible summer route for thesis data collection

1. Fly Round trip PHX to SEA (Delta, found on Kayak), May 11 - June 1: $279
---21 days in the NW, then back to the desert

2. Bus Phoenix thru Central America to Panama, June 1 - August 3: $1200 (@ $20/day)
---60-day bus trip (Map: http://ow.ly/39bxU)

(tentative) Cities of Data...
  • Mexico - Chihuahua, Monterrey, Guadalajara, DF, Oaxaca, Mérida
  • Belize - Belize City
  • Guatemala - Guatemala
  • El Salvador - San Salvador, San Miguel
  • Honduras - Tegucigalpa
  • Nicaragua - Matagalpa, Managua
  • Costa Rica - San Jose
  • Panama - Panama


3. Fly One-way PTY (Panama City) to MIA (FLL, Fort Lauderdale, Spirit), August 3: $190
---Direct flight from Panama to Miami, back in the US!

4. Fly Multi-city MIA to SEA (August 3) to PHX (August 10) (Delta, found on Kayak): $296
---(same day as PTY flight) Miami to the NW, 7 days at home, then to Tempe for analysis!
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~ $ 2 , 0 0 0
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solo shmokin

half moonerthe chase
unite... enter!lone wolf
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fall 2010 semester projects, crunch time

Spanish Language in America: Puerto Rican Spanish, relation between Sociolinguistic variables & consonant neutralization of /r/ and /l/ in syllable-final position.

Spanish Pragmatics: Establishing of power and the struggle to build/maintain rapport in Spain's El Diario de Patricia. Discourse analysis + Speech Acts.

Linguistics Research Methods: The effects and potential of CMC/social networking on L2 acquisition; specifically Twitter and it's informal, open topic, "whatever" context and how that can enhance language aptitude and motivation in general. (Although only a proposal is necessary for that class, I am considering using it for a real project... I have barely any SLA knowledge, so I'm not quite sure yet.)

O meu português vai bem! Ja não é portunhol :-)

Ma français est une merde :-/
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down the rabbit hole

The (in)sane notes I took while watching "What the bleep do we know?", an intense documentary that puts everything about existence into question while posing many scientific and philosophical questions of its own. We are only on the brink...

My tweet:
"What the bleep do we know?" http://ow.ly/2CUST fall down the rabbit hole :-pp quantum mechanics blows it all up ::: gracias Ileana :-)
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My notes:

If I perceive a cliff instead of the floor next to my bed, and I can't determine the order of probabilities of which one is real, I'm paralized, in the most literal sense of the world.

or I'm a (on) drugzzz.
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Entanglement is the property of Quantam mechanics.
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Space-time geometry. Plank scale.
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The Observer's Paradox: 2 sets of laws - those that exist when you're in it, & those that apply when you're looking at it. That's crazy! Particles of existence.
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Grammatical tense for that which you've seen, & that which you haven't ([which] native american language?)
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If we actually affect what happens to others, or other things, why do we not just "wish well" to everything? This makes me want to pray, bless everything.
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"Some spook, action in the distance."
-Einstein, on entanglement
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...bc my head, and your head, are co-located.
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need to observe more. We will create what occurs.
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I feel like we only observe language, stationary things, just bc they're slowed down enough for us to observe.
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Quantum physics does not take into account consciousness.
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Cosmic sentences of everlasting punishment.
[ RELIGION ]
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...but that's how society works.
Fuck.
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system of thought
unity
we are one. (2 particles, wait 3000 co-located)
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what is an orgasm, quantum-particle wise?
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quantum measurement produces memory.
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cuz they're connected
to all those other nerve cells,
called identity, ... [ HA! ]
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change in itself means we have to abandoned indentity.
(the) drink(ing)s scene...
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each cell has a consciousness. neuropeptides
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if you can't control your emotional state, you're addicted. (to it).
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we become addicted to the stress
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|--> we must do what we like.
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& bc we've made an imprint in the mind, & in the brain, ur perception will never be the same.
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actually sex is an invention to make us see into the future.
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u think about sex, then u get an erection. i did it. i made it happen.
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We are (literally) the same.
We are one.
Unity.
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I can change anything, which is this, us, the one.
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I shall make myself more sure of what I know.
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(I shall) observe.
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Consciousness allows identity,
we mediate and dictate identity
through language. By communicating,
we become & grow conscious
of ourselves. We are one, but unknown.
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the fact that anything said an mean different things in different contexts, but things are only said once (there, then, w/in that context), it does mean anything when it is said. That correct matching of meaning by the hearer RIGHT THEN to what was literally said is the element that pragmatics brings to language study.
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is there always not (necessarily) one moment you can go back & change to make thingsdifferent?
...1 play in the World Cup, different champions.
...and you can picky nearly any significant play from different game throughout the tournament! penalty here, save there, red card here, expulsion there, so anything that you say that is significant to what you're goig to say can change how & why you say what you do.
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{ and everything you said changes what u can, should, and will (ultimately?) say? }
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And their becomes a different World Cup champ, and a different interpreted mening that wins out.
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I can deliver a message unclearly.
If I choose to send it clearly, I can just do it, r present ir more "presentable" to the hearer, sociolinguistically.
Or maybe,
team = speakers
games = conversations
victories = conversation "wins" (-->"I understood it the way you intended and am storing it así")
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trailer park / aliens / world cup 400AD

What's Ricky doin? Convincing
& Julian? Mitigating (the convincing)
Bubbles? Trying to stop it.
You can always 'sum up' what someone's statements try to do with an utterance (clause, sentence, paragraph...) What was the purpose/meaning of that piece of speech?

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remnants of aliens in language? (how far back can the) "UFO's" existence can be supported? when did the word(s) for "UFO" enter each language?

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WORLD CUP 400AD: Roman Empire, Celts, Native Americans, Aboriginals, Africans, Arabs Japanese, East Asian ...

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Doesn't every word (and clause) have a first person that has said it?
who are these people?
why does it stick?
who repeats it?
when in our lifetimes does that happen (and w/ what frequency per time period of a human's life)?

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***Difference btwn derivational (English) + synthetic (Spanish) languages?

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y do we assume we talk for a reason? are we just trying to improve a social condition (or variable: D, S and R (Brown & Levinson) sometimes? we're not always delivery an invitation, request, apology, etc... Sometimes the society, the hearer or the speaker talks due to obligation, to a reason.
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it's never the same

colonial & cultural remnants don't ever leave the same linguistic imprints, just somewhat random degrees [of] variation

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My #worldcup on @twitter

Thanks to a lovely HashCloud from @tweestats, my thoroughly enjoyed #worldcup journey has been documented and will now be a @twitter memory forever :-) Gracias, & giddy up! (start from the bottom!!!)

*Might I just add that, as it is clear I am/was a fan of many teams at the World Cup, I find it ironic and quite sad that the story (well, at least mine...) begins and ends with a Dutch miss on goal. Even as an avid Barça fan (a.k.a. the core of Spain's national side), I still would've enjoyed a victory for the Oranje, maybe more than I enjoyed Spain's.... Hup Holland!


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