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heliopausa) wrote2016-02-06 01:37 pm
heliopausa) wrote2016-02-06 01:37 pm
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Links of mild interest - and a bit of language thinking
I'm posting a lot, I know, right now, in the attempt to find some counterweights to the world's worth of bad news. I hope I'm not wearing you all out!
Here's the not-internet world still ticking over - fanzines live!
I was really happy to see what might be the beginning of widespread fair wages for fast-food workers in the US.
I very much like this hard-edged, seen-it-all take on Emilia's speech about marital unfaithfulness, in Othello. (video, 1:19 minutes -for some reason for me it goes to the bottom of the page - you have to scroll up to find the video)
It only just struck me this week: when Cockneys are written as saying "Wotcher!" as a greeting, it's the rubbed-down, easy-going descendant of "What cheer?" (Did everyone else know this all along?)
Meanwhile, the French are edging away from the circumflex! which feels so un-French - or so unlike the purity-of-the-language French I was threatened with, at school. But there it is - circumflexes, wotcher- languages shift, even the inflexible French.
and something pretty to end the week on: opalised shells. Or pearls, the scientists do say, but they looked like shells!
Here's the not-internet world still ticking over - fanzines live!
I was really happy to see what might be the beginning of widespread fair wages for fast-food workers in the US.
I very much like this hard-edged, seen-it-all take on Emilia's speech about marital unfaithfulness, in Othello. (video, 1:19 minutes -for some reason for me it goes to the bottom of the page - you have to scroll up to find the video)
It only just struck me this week: when Cockneys are written as saying "Wotcher!" as a greeting, it's the rubbed-down, easy-going descendant of "What cheer?" (Did everyone else know this all along?)
Meanwhile, the French are edging away from the circumflex! which feels so un-French - or so unlike the purity-of-the-language French I was threatened with, at school. But there it is - circumflexes, wotcher- languages shift, even the inflexible French.
and something pretty to end the week on: opalised shells. Or pearls, the scientists do say, but they looked like shells!
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Your mention of the word "science" sparks my conscience though - I called them shells, but I guess shouldn't have, so I've guiltily amended the post.