Foul Play: Sports Metaphors as Public Doublespeak - 10 views
Text of President Obama's Tucson Memorial Speech - Political Hotsheet - CBS News - 0 views
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To the families of those we've lost; to all who called them friends; to the students of this university, the public servants gathered tonight, and the people of Tucson and Arizona:
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We mourn with you for the fallen. We join you in your grief. And we add our faith to yours that Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the other living victims of this tragedy pull through.
Wordwatchers - 1 views
How to Block a Metaphor - It Figures - Figures of Speech - 6 views
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Every kid should be taught this inoculation technique. It’ll lead to a less gullible electorate.
Would You Let Him Mandate Your Daughter? - It Figures - Figures of Speech - 4 views
10 Tips for Writing the College Application Essay - Professors' Guide (usnews.com) - 29 views
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"Be concise, Be honest, Be an individual, Be coherent, Be accurate, Be vivid, Be likable, Be cautious in your use of humor, Be controversial, and Be smart" HOW?!?!?!?!?!?!? Quite a bit to take in and remember while working away on a concise paper which may or may not decide our future. Just a few small nuggets of gold (interpret as you please): "If you go over 700 words, you are straining their patience, which no one should want to do." "Not everyone has to be the star at everything." "The whole application is a series of snapshots of what you do. It is inevitably incomplete. The colleges expect this. Go along with them." "If you write about Nietzsche, spell his name right." "Subtlety is good." "Be funny only if you think you have to. Then think again." "It is fine to write about politics, religion, something serious, as long as you are balanced and thoughtful. Don't pretend you have the final truth." "Colleges are intellectual places, a fact they almost always keep a secret..." From this, I take: Be human. But be an awesome human.
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4. Be coherent. I thought that this website was really helpful because I am known to like to write a lot and sometimes want to write so much that I ramble a lot. I don't want to sound busy but not scattered or superficial either.
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I feel like by setting up some of these guidelines, it is kind of changing our experiences or ideas we want to write. We have to find something coherent to the question and on top of that be likeable. what if what you think is likeable isn't the same as what the college people want?
Joseph Romm: Why Smart Talkers Lose Debates and How Obama Can Beat McCain Anyway - 3 views
How Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement protesters are using their native language to push ba... - 0 views
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At the heart of the current friction between Hong Kong and mainland China isn't just Hong Kong's autonomy and political freedoms. It's the territory's language. Though they share many of the same Chinese characters, Mandarin and Cantonese use them in such divergent ways-in terms of both grammar and vocabulary-that they constitute two different writing systems. China's government has tried to insist that Cantonese isn't really a language, and to suppress its use. But as with Bengali in the independence movement for Bangladesh, and the Soweto uprising against the imposition of Afrikaans in apartheid South African schools, Cantonese is beginning to take on a central role in Hong Kong's resistance to the authority of mainland China.
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For more on the historical divide between Mandarin and Cantonese language speakers, see this article: http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/difficulty.htm
Is a Threat Posted on Facebook Really a Threat? - 0 views
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The U.S. Supreme Court is tackling a question of increasing importance in the age of social media and the Internet: What constitutes a threat on Facebook? Anthony Elonis was convicted of threatening both his estranged wife and an FBI agent. After his wife left him, taking the couple's two children with her, Elonis began posting about her on his Facebook page. Elonis was indicted on five counts of interstate communication of illegal threats. At his trial, he acknowledged the violence voiced in his posts, but argued he was exercising his First Amendment free speech rights. Longtime federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, however, notes that most of the posts occurred after Elonis' wife had gotten a protective court order, and that Elonis posted his messages on his Facebook page without restriction. Thus, Fitzgerald contends that the husband reasonably foresaw what the reaction would be. "The wife would read this and think, this is not an artistic statement, this is not a political statement about a larger cause," says Fitzgerald. "This is trying to get inside her head and make her think there could be someone doing violence to her."
Let Us Review North Korea's Glorious New Slogans! - 2 views
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North Korea has published 310 new slogans to encourage patriotism - so what do they say, what do they mean and what do they tell us about the leadership in Pyongyang? Propaganda in the form of slogans, posters, stamps and books has played an important role in the country since the state was founded in 1948, so the appearance of a new batch of exhortations is not surprising. My personal favorite: "Play sports games in an offensive way!" See http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31446387 for a full list of the slogans.
Change of Language, Change of Personality? - 1 views
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Bilingual 1: "When I'm around Anglo-Americans, I find myself awkward and unable to choose my words quickly enough ... When I'm amongst Latinos/Spanish-speakers, I don't feel shy at all. I'm witty, friendly, and ... I become very out-going." Bilingual 2: "In English, my speech is very polite, with a relaxed tone, always saying "please" and "excuse me."
Relativism > The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views
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Many linguists, including Noam Chomsky, contend that language in the sense we ordinary think of it, in the sense that people in Germany speak German, is a historical or social or political notion, rather than a scientific one. For example, German and Dutch are much closer to one another than various dialects of Chinese are.
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