May 2009
38 posts
Reduplication
tristanjay7:
filigree:
Malagasy makes use of reduplication to encode semantic distinctions. The semantic effect of verbal reduplication is that of indicating manner (mainly iterativity or unmotivated/unsystematic event processing):
mihèrka ‘to look back’ > mih-erik-èrika ‘to look behind one repeatedly’
mandròvita ‘to tear’ > mand-rovi-ròvitra ‘to tear up into pieces’
Calling...
April 2009
50 posts
The Philippines and America: The Romance is Gone →
A CHORUS of protest against the Philippines’ military ties with America has greeted the acquittal on appeal of an American serviceman accused of raping a Filipina. Left-wingers are demanding the removal of American forces from Philippine soil. Politicians nearer the centre are calling for changes in the rules covering their presence. This is the latest touchy episode in a sensitive relationship...
Somebody just asked me how to say...
and I didn’t know what to say. Any of you out there Pinoys and can help me out? I personally just say ‘congrats’ or ‘ang galing!’ or ‘naks naman!’ which isn’t really ‘congratulations’ but you know. (I really do speak Tagalog, I swear.)
And now I’m putting a question mark at the end of this sentence so you can answer this?
86400:
gunstreetgirl:
Read To Me Tuesday:
In...
Maxïmo Park - Like I Love You (Justin Timberlake...
“I have to state that Philology, both Comparative and special, has been my...”
– James Murray to Thomas Watts, Keeper of Printed Books, in a letter of application for a position at the British Museum Library, November 1866.
He didn’t get the job.
1 tag
it really is
a: i once sang yummy yummy yummy i got love in my tummy
a: and my mom told me to stop singing it because it talked about pregnancy
a: is that frigging repressed or what?
I’m free!*
∗ Side effects include: not knowing what to do with time now that I have no thesis to work on, sun exposure from sitting out at Wilder Bowl, probable weight gain from ice cream consumption (from Yesterday’s), and a beast of a headache tomorrow morning after going to the Feve tonight.
soupçon
wordjournal:
noun • /soōpˈsô / • a very small quantity of something.
One of my favorite things to say is ‘Do I detect a soupçon of insouciance?’
countryside
noun - to kill Piers Morgan.
(thanks, Stephen Fry.)
Maxïmo Park - Roller Disco Dreams
Maxïmo Park...
1 tag
The Human League - Don’t You Want Me
Because...
“I think it was Donald Mainstock, the great amateur squash player, who pointed...”
– Stephen Motherfucking Fry. This is my favorite monologue of his from A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
Southwest Airlines
flight attendant: Smile, we've just landed in Cleveland!
old lady: Have you _been_ to Cleveland?
flight attendant: No...
“Manila is the armpit of an otherwise amazing country.”
– Anonymous (not really) (via thisjustin) (via pinoytumblr)
I wholeheartedly agree.
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land....”
– Bishop Desmond Tutu [via] (via anthropophagous)
So my headphones have died…
I purchased a pair of Bose Triport OE headphones on a whim two summers ago (for me, ‘on a whim’ means ‘I didn’t spend hours comparing reviews on the internet regarding this product’, which I should have). They were good while they lasted (but not worth the money at all), but sound comes out of only one ear now. Now I don’t want to spend a ridiculous amount of money on headphones, but I would like...
“We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole; the termination...”
– Samuel Johnson.
As quoted by my advisor in his last email to our Herodotus class, two years ago (I was doing a Gmail search on ‘Johnson’ and I found this by chance. Turns out there are benefits to never cleaning out your email inbox). Now that I’m about to terminate this period...
Is this the end for Tommy Smyth, possibly the most... →
Don’t raise my hopes up like that!
“In each of the years that he’s left County Louth, his accent has gotten stronger to such an extent that he’s now 94% angry leprechaun.”
1 tag
The National - Mr November (live)
You may have...
Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir, and the air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witnessed by the regrettable behaviour of its inhabitants in 1776.
Wooster: What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it if it's convenient to you, sir.
Black Figure Easter Eggs →
(via ahsavka.)
Because goddamn, look at that reproduction of Achilles and Ajax playing dice from Exekias’ amphora.
Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or...
Rogue Wave - Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover)
I’d...
Röyksopp - Happy Birthday
It’s my 21st today,...
me: Every time you sing off-key, God kills a kitten.
friend: Then I'm probably responsible for Darfur.
Phoenix - Lasso
Where would you go
where...
l'esprit de l'escalier
ragbag:
(stairway wit) is the sense of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late»
The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult, or any witty, clever remark that comes to mind too late to be useful—when one is on the “staircase” leaving the scene. The German word treppenwitz is used to express the same idea.
The phenomenon is usually accompanied by a feeling of regret at...
kapi:
Munich - Editors
This was my jam in high...
The KLF - Doctorin’ the Tardis
Times Roman Font Announces Shortage of Periods →
From Steve Martin’s Pure Drivel.
Representatives of the popular Times New Roman font, who recently announced a shortage of periods, have offered substitutes – inverted commas, exclamation marks, and semi-colons until the period crisis is able to be overcome by people such as yourself, who, through creative management of surplus punctuation, can perhaps allay the constant demand for periods,...
