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Rachel Rosenfeld

Do I Sound Gay? - 1 views

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    There are many ways that we can express our identities. We can alter the way we look, the things we're interested in, the way we dress. But one thing we're pretty much stuck with is our voice. Sure the words coming from our mouths can be tailored to a situation or a desired persona, but the actual sound of our voice is difficult to change. For writer David Thorpe, the sound of his own voice always had him contemplating the same question: "Do I sound gay?" However, his wasn't simply an inquisitive statement; it was an expression of dissatisfaction that he had a gay voice, even though he was openly gay. Using his own struggle with his identity as the common thread, he consults linguists who illuminate the mechanical traits of gay speech and attribute this common characteristic to a strong feminine influence in the early lives of gay men.
Lara Cowell

Where did the 'gay lisp' stereotype come from? - 0 views

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    The notion of a "gay lisp"-an offensive stereotype to many people-has been a confusing phenomenon for linguists. For decades, popular depictions of gay men have sometimes portrayed them pronouncing the letter "s" as more of a "th" sound-even though studies have failed to find "lispier" speech in gay men than in straight men. Now, however, preliminary data from a small study presented here last week at the biannual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) show that young boys who don't identify with their assigned gender use "th"-like pronunciation at slightly higher rates than their peers who do, although they seem to grow out of that tendency. The authors speculate that stereotypes of gay adults may be rooted in the speech of boys who go on to identify as gay.
Lara Cowell

A Secret Gay Language Has Gone Mainstream in the Philippines - 0 views

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    A coded lexicon mostly spoken by gay men, Swardspeak draws from English and Tagalog, as well as Spanish and, to a lesser extent, Japanese. It's what might be referred to as an "anti-language," the lingua franca of an "anti-society"-in this case, the Philippines' gay subculture.
Javen Alania

'Who Sounds Gay?' - The New York Times - 1 views

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    This short documentary explores the reasons that some men sound stereotypically gay, whether they are or not.
anonymous

Gay or Stupid? One of These is Still an Insult - 4 views

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    The evolution of the word "gay" that is now used as an insult.
Lisa Stewart

Outspoken Gay Rights Advocate Chris Kluwe Released From Minnesota Vikings - 0 views

  • Kluwe's release comes after the Baltimore Ravens released Brendon Ayanbadejo, another prominent gay-rights advocate. Both are part of the group Athlete Ally, which works to end homophobia in sports.
Lara Cowell

How The Wrong Verb Meant The Texas GOP Called Most Texans Gay - 1 views

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    Everyone needs a copy editor. Today, the Texas Republican Party is probably wishing it had one, too. Check out this sentence from the just-adopted 2016 party platform: As Texas Monthly rightly points out, the sentence actually says that homosexual behavior "has been ordained by God in the Bible, recognized by our nations founders, and shared by the majority of Texans."
Lisa Stewart

Language Log » Univocal heteroglossia - 1 views

  • I don't think that the Greek rhetoricians had a word for the juxtaposition of disparate styles represented by passages like "not only are you violating the First Amendment, you also come across as a narcissistic fromunda stain".
  • Kluwe's status as an athlete provides the ethos, the high style carries the logos, and the trash-talking establishes the pathos.
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    "For the past three years, Brendon Ayanbadejo, a backup linebacker and standout special-teams player for the [Baltimore] Ravens, has been advocating for same-sex marriage-writing about it, talking about it, appearing as one of the stars of a video campaign launched by backers of a measure to legalize it in Maryland. It's not his day job, but he's gotten enough attention for it that an anti-gay-marriage Maryland state legislator wrote to the owner of the Ravens and demanded that he shut Ayanbadejo up."
Lara Cowell

Polari, a vibrant language born out of prejudice - 0 views

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    Polari (also spelt Palarie, Parlary, Palare and various other ways) is a language most commonly associated with gay men (and to a lesser extent lesbians), used in the first two-thirds of the 20th century in British cities that had large and mainly underground gay subcultures. Originally a secret language, passed down via word of mouth, it was a necessity in a world where homosexuality was stigmatized. According to author Paul Baker, "Polari could be seen as a form of anti-language, a term created by Michael Halliday in 1978 to describe how stigmatised subcultures develop languages that help them to reconstruct reality according to their own values."
Lara Cowell

Comprehensive List of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) Vocabulary Definit... - 2 views

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    This glossary offers definitions of LGBTQ terms.
Lauren Stollar

Time is now to stop using hurtful words - Bruce Andriatch - The Buffalo News - 0 views

  • Once they know someone who is hurt by the word, it’s no longer just an abstract concept about doing the right thing, but a realization that words can wound.
  • more of the focus needs to be on the language we use that we might not associate with bullying
  • Watch footage from the early civil rights era, especially man-on-the-street interviews with Southerners about their views on segregation. Try not to cringe as Americans throw around a racial epithet that we now find so offensive and abhorrent that we have assigned it a letter and recognize it immediately as the N-word.
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  • power of the word it resembled
  • he reason we stopped hearing racist language was because of how willing people were to stand up and confront those who used the words
  • institutional discrimination from government and religious organizations continues.
  • homosexuality
  • who might be offended by it are scared to say that they are gay
  • isn’t happening
  • ending the use of the language has to start at home,
Lisa Stewart

YouTube - Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better" - 2 views

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    Please watch.
Lisa Stewart

YouTube - George Takei vs. Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" Bill - 0 views

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    The original Mr. Sulu employs rhetoric to reduce to absurdity a bill introduced in Tennessee that would forbid public school teachers from discussing homosexuality in classrooms.
mmaretzki

N.B.A. Executive Dares to Leave the Safety of His Shadow Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • forcing Mr. Stern once again to confront a culture in which the worst thing you can say about a man is to suggest that you think he is less than a man.
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      The enthymeme comes from Dan Barry, the author, I think.
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Lara Cowell

When the Vatican speaks on matters of doctrine, it will be in Italian - 0 views

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    270 Catholic bishops from around the globe, representing 13 different language groups, will be convening for a week-long meeting this month. Their goal: to come up with a single document of their findings to present to Pope Francis. The final version of that document will be written in the lingua franca of the Catholic Church, which is Italian. Italian has not been the official language for all synod business for very long. Pope Francis changed the official language of synod business from Latin to Italian a couple of years ago. In the past, when the bishops gathered for a synod, they produced documents in Latin. Unlike Latin, Italian is a living language of the real world, and arguably a more neutral linguistic choice than English. However, much controversy has arisen over both translation and ideological issues, and what true meaning and intent is being conveyed by document language and wording. Massimo Faggioli, a theology scholar, noted that under previous popes, the synods worked very differently. Bishops used to gather for the purpose of rubber-stamping Vatican policy. There was no real debate over the true meaning of the official text. "But now, these texts matter," Faggioli says. "[The bishops] know that if they vote on one text or another, that might change the direction of the Catholic church on some teachings, which was not something anybody was thinking about under Pope John Paul II or Pope Benedict." Pope Francis has said he wants a more decentralized Catholic Church. And he has encouraged the bishops at the synod to speak boldly, even about subjects on which they disagree. Some of the most contentious issues at this synod are about whether or not to allow Communion to people who've been divorced and remarried, premarital cohabitation, and how the Church should talk about gays and lesbians.
tburciagareyes21

A linguist's love letter to profanity explains why it's fine to curse around kids - 2 views

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    This article addresses the controversy behind swearing around kids. There was a linguist who used to be a massive swearer, but he noticed that his linguistic tendencies and language style changed once he had kids. He decided to do a study with college students regarding their responses to swearing in lectures (since swearing around kids would be considered unethical). He addressed two types of profanity in this study; swearing and slurs. He found that slurs generated a negative reaction to the people at whom the slurs were about (Black people, gay people, etc.), but cussing didn't have an impact.
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    This article explains the controversy behind swearing around kids. A professor from UC San Diego explored this topic due to his own self interest. As a lover of profanity, he seems to have seen himself change his language while being around his own kids. In a experiment conducted on college students, he came across profanity as slurs and cussing. Slurs created a negative reaction to those that the slurs were about that consisted of gender preferences and skin color, but swearing didn't seem to show.
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