tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62575004033873299932024-03-14T05:43:26.836+00:00The Book is in the Tablet 2Linguistic Strangeness in English.
You’ve learned the rules. Now, behold the deviations!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14763904653188927419noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257500403387329993.post-88296085208697410622014-06-29T00:24:00.002+01:002014-06-30T05:14:45.835+01:00Weird Word - Portmanteau is... (4)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Twerk</b></i>, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">as stated</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13pt;"> on Wikipe</span><span style="line-height: 13pt;">dia, </span><span style="line-height: 13pt;">is </span><span style="line-height: 13pt;">a portmanteau </span><span style="line-height: 13pt;">of </span><i style="line-height: 13pt;"><b>twist</b></i><span style="line-height: 13pt;"> + </span><b style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13pt;">jerk</b><span style="line-height: 13pt;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="line-height: 13pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">Twerk</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 13pt;">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 13pt;"> is so new </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">that it has no entry on my<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;"><i>OED</i> edition of 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Metrosexual</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">,</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="line-height: 13pt;">according to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 13pt;"> </span><span style="line-height: 13pt;">OED,
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Iconic example of the metrosexual type is depicted
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Metrosexual </i>is rather formed on the pattern of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Homosexual.</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">-sexual<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB">is actually a derivational suffix added to <i>Homo</i> (Greek, <i>same</i>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">I support this argument on two evidences from English.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">1. The suffix -<i>sexual<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>was dissociated from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>homosexual</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">during the emergency of the gay liberation movements,
1960's.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13pt;">2. With all respect to the OED, </span><span style="line-height: 13pt;"><i>Wikipedia -</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13pt;">- defines a more faithful concept of </span><i style="line-height: 13pt;">metrosexual</i><span style="line-height: 13pt;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe this is a deliberate choice of word to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">dissociate</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13pt;">A legitimate concept of </span><i style="line-height: 13pt;">metrosexual</i><span style="line-height: 13pt;">, though, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">goes beyond t' straight sphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13pt;">And, just to remind, gay men not often adopt a </span><span style="line-height: 13pt;">metrosexual style.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;"> <i>Normal, Ohio</i> depicted a typical American blue collar man,</span><br />
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<b style="line-height: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Retrosexual<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- Übersexual - Wo-metrosexual</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Gastrosexual </b></span><b style="line-height: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="line-height: 13pt;"> </b><span style="line-height: 13pt;"><b> </b></span><b style="line-height: 13pt;"> </b><b style="line-height: 13pt;"> </b></span><b style="line-height: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="line-height: 13pt;">Omnisexual</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13pt;">And even</span><b style="line-height: 13pt;"> Trysexual </b><span style="line-height: 13pt;">like Jones!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I mean Samantha Jones from <i>Sex & The City.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...a word that blends sounds and combines the
meaning of two others (</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">Concise</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">Oxford English Dictionary).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Bootylicious </i>has officially made into the OXford English Dictionary in 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="line-height: 13pt;">Bootylicious</i><span style="line-height: 13pt;">, as the </span>OED defines, is an informal word of American English. It's said of a woman, sexually appealing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Bootylicious</i> coinage is attributed to American rapper Snoop Dog in 1992, according to Wikipedia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, the rapper may just have known to the media a word that should've been in use by his community at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">Portmanteaus with <i>delicious </i>are noted since the 1950's - OED wise.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 13pt;"><b>Fergalicious - </b>song by Fergie & Black Eyed Peas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Candylicious - </b>theme party at a pub.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">Portmanteau Word: a word that blend sounds and combine </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">Some portmanteaus, like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>sexting</i>, are quite new in English.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">It's quite easy to get good information in the web</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">Here are some portmanteaus that everyone </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">above the age of 30 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">It has origins in the 1970's according to Concise OED - though wikipedia claims 1958 using OED reference.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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approached Sharon after an interview, but she declined it, to avoid attracting
more attention. Even though, editors of </span><i style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">The
Sun</i><span style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> could not pass that opportunity to print one of their witty headlines: </span><i style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Whatever Happened to the Lad’s Tyke?</i><span style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> The
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results of my MRI scan, Dr Tyler explained that like other patients with foreign
accent syndrome I presented minuscule alterations in several areas of the brain
that controlled speech. Dr </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tyler</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> was intrigued because I did not have a
history of migraine attacks, and presented no visible signs of head injury when
the symptoms of foreign accent syndrome appeared. No other exam indicated signs
of stroke as the cause of those alterations either. Dr </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tyler</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> hypothesized that
I perhaps suffered from a rare neurological condition called cerebral
vasculitis, which is basically an inflammation of the blood vessels in the
brain that may starve language areas of vital oxygen. In order to determine that
I would need to do a magnetic resonance angiography. Since my previous MRI scan
had ruled out the hypothesis of tumor, I would have to wait perhaps for months
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that indeed I had come to Leeds as an exchange student. I eventually gave to Dr
Tyler a full account of my Peruvian background in Trujillo, which included my parents’
landline number. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After my confession, Dr Tyler then contacted a
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be impressed with that." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Dr Knapp told me after I questioned what kind of memory was that. "Your </span><span style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">subconscious mind have just worked out
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abduction narratives. It did it in order to justify the confusion that the foreign accent syndrome creates on your identity. It's more simple</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and frequent than you may suppose." He still emphasised.</span></span></div>
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taken part in a conversation exchange scheme that puts language learners
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this Peruvian exchange student who came from the National University of Trujillo. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Dr Tyler explained the case to Mary-Anne Ansell, the executive
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believing that a close friend or relative had been replaced by some sort of </span><span lang="EN-US">doppelgänger</span><span lang="EN-US"> I actually believed that I was another person. This was further complicated duo to my memory loss.</span></span></div>
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in the ward 38. I had to admit that Sharon didn't really have any hidden agenda by claiming to be my mother - neither Sharon nor everyone else who claimed to know me from a long time. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">The only sensible option that I had left was to accept the clinical assistance that Dr Knapp offered me. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Dr Knapp then advised me that writing about that experience
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Behind him, the screen showed pictorial illustrations which looked suspiciously like the ones from the <i>Holy Scripture</i> that my mother kept open on the table at home. Following the illustrations on the screen I gained awareness that </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">the earthly realm had been created amorphous with the purpose to be under the constant control of the source of power. By exerting control upon the forms of the earthly realm the source of power preserved and enhanced itself. The source of power then created organisms, namely humans, capable of performing such control upon the earthly realm. Thus, every time that a human organism exerted such control, this organism processed the maintenance and enhancement of a fraction of the energy from the source of power. However, humans would not exercise control upon the earthly realm without a stimulus. This was where the function of the messengers became essentially connected with the function of the humans. Messengers provide afflatus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;">In the Paleolithic, messengers inspired the Neanderthals to knap the forms of solid matter, like stones and bones, and later to control heat and create fire. Having control over fire enabled the early humans to be further inspired to control their environment, subdue wild beasts at distance, and heat clay to craft pottery and construct stronger dwellings. Equally, humans were inspired to control the appearance and taste of their victuals by cooking and seasoning. In the dawn of civilization the messengers multiplied the effect of their stimulus by inspiring intellectually advanced humans to exert control over masses of humans. In this way, hordes of humans were stimulated to exert control over large blocks of solid matter and construct massive monuments. Messengers worked closely along humans in the heyday of stonemasonry. They were indirectly the architects of the </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">Pyramids in Egypt, the Citadel of Athens in Greece, Persepolis in Iran, and other sites that, like R’lyeh, today lie at the depths of the ocean. When the messengers inspired great leaders, such as the king Alexander of Macedon, to expand their empires they were actually expanding the reach of their inspirational stimulus. Throughout history, humans were inspired to exert their controlling abilities upon everything in the earthly realm. Works of art are the best evidence of the messengers’ inspiration that compelled humans to control the forms of hard materials, coloured substances, and the elements of sound, to generate sculptures, paintings, and music. Still, one of the messengers’ most marvellous endeavours was to inspire humans to exert control over their guttural sounds. This is when humanity was endowed with their primordial tongue: the Indo-European-Semitic language.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before the Indo-European-Semitic all humans communicated
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14763904653188927419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257500403387329993.post-23849780622397173012014-03-02T07:34:00.000+00:002014-05-01T08:32:49.047+01:00The Foreign Accent That Came From Space - 2 of 4<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">While collecting data from headlines of English papers for my MA dissertation, I came across a curious article about a </span><span lang="EN-GB">rather strange </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt;">language </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">fact</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Was I actually suffering from paranoia?</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">After
waking up in a infirmary ward, with</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> no memory of how I’d been taken there, a
complete stranger appeared affirming to be mother; and when my obvious Latin
American accent evidenced that I couldn’t possibly have been raised by a native
English speaker, the head nurse seemed determined to convince me I had foreign
accent syndrome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">“Do you know this nurse?” I asked Sharon,
trying not sound hysterically suspicious.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">Sharon’s light smile turned into a light
scowl. “Wha’, hun?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">If something dodgy was going on I’d better put
Sharon on the spot quick, otherwise I could end up in some nutter’s
slaughterhouse. So, I raised my </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">voice to a tone of challenge.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">“The nurse… you know each other.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">Sharon held a sigh. “Oh luv. We’ve been
through this…” She turned her head midsentence, and hastened toward the exit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">Discreet as she was, Sharon caused a few
necks to turn. Before I even could feel any remorse, I was left to shun facing
the looks which other ward patients threw at me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 34.400001525878906px;">I'd already rehearsed a non-discreet rant. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 34.400001525878906px;">Following my first meeting with Sharon, I demanded to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 34.400001525878906px;">one of the nurses that I had to talk to some civil authority</span><span style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 25.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. After that, a social worker had come to have with me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 25.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"We fully understand your concern. We ask you just a couple of hours so that we can talk to yo... Ms Sharon and make sure she can provide us with evidence of your acquaintance and connection to her."</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 25.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She gave me </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.66666603088379px; text-indent: 36pt;">pictures showing that I bore a striking resemblance to Sharon's actual son. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.66666603088379px; text-indent: 36pt;">I just could not bring myself to understand what coincidental odds made </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.66666603088379px; text-indent: 36pt;">Sharon's son go missing right at the time that they found me unconscious at Hyde Park. The social worker still told </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.66666603088379px; text-indent: 36pt;">that I was enrolled as an undergraduate in the Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Leeds. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.66666603088379px; text-indent: 36pt;">Indeed I already knew that. B</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.66666603088379px; text-indent: 36pt;">ut the social worker seemed to deliberately neglect a small detail: I was an overseas exchange student. I had sound memory that I'd come originally from the National University of Trujillo, northwestern of Peru. She should've had a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.66666603088379px; text-indent: 36pt;">hint that there'd be something wrong with that information when my English presented no characteristic feature of the West Yorkshire dialect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">All things considered, when all coincidences showed that
Sharon should be right in her judgement, I checked the mobile that was found with me. It did list my real parents' landline number in Trujillo. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">I didn't mention any of these facts to the social worker or Sharon to avoid bringing her more distress. Soon as I brought myself to calm down I'd definitely contact my actual parents overseas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">Half an hour after having raised my voice to
Sharon and made her disappear, the same social worker returned again,
bringing with her a few documents that evidenced Sharon's integrity as a
person. But I wouldn't give up that easy.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">"What about the student accommodation?
I must live like most students from the University of Leeds." I asked,
actually knowing exactly where I stayed - but having to deny that knowledge
since I was still faking amnesia. "Could you check this out?"</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Actually, I did check this out with
the Student Accommodation Office. It turns out you do live in a shared
residence in Headingley." Her words brought me a sigh of relief. </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">F</span></i></span><span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">inally
something was making sense.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"But
we're in July, right in the middle of vacation period. And so the accommodation
is closed till the beginning of the new academic session in
September."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My memory had betrayed me regarding that information. I was
then left with no choice but to go with Sharon to what supposedly
was our residence in Horsforth – a town six miles from the commercial
centre of Leeds.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">Sharon remained supportive and patiently
introduced me to what seemed to be my room, my things, and my routine. As far
as I could determine there were no immediate issues between us. Despite the
fact that Sharon was a single parent, we seemed to form a quite functional
family. Most days Sharon worked as the morning shift manager of the Whistlestop
Cafe at the main station. During the first two mornings I tried to reach my
real parents.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;">"Madre, es tú?"</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"> I
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was hung up a few times. In the third day attempt,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">someone finally answered. "Quién
es esso?"</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who is it</span></span></i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">? I didn't recognise the voice at
the other end. It was my turn to hang up. I'd always been a level-headed person
and I wouldn't </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fall prey of desperation so easy. I'd find an answer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">An ocean apart from my real family and home, I took that as
challenge to my ability to remain focused under all the madness that was going
on around me. So, I initially focused on getting my head around that situation
and trying to recall what had exactly brought me to the ward 38.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14763904653188927419noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257500403387329993.post-27920443280616617092014-02-23T22:56:00.000+00:002014-02-26T18:14:19.553+00:00The Foreign Accent That Came From Space - 1 of 4<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">While collecting data from headlines of English papers
for my MA dissertation, I came across a curious article about a </span><span lang="EN-GB">rather strange </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt;">language </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">fact</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following short story is based on such strange
fact.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">In the morning that I woke up in
the ward 38 of the Brotherton Wing, at Leeds General Infirmary, I did not feel
like myself. I mean, literally. I'd read Kafka's <i>Die Verwandlung</i>,
but it was nothing like that. I had all my human parts in the right place and
the face I saw in the mirror, as far as I could remember, was pretty much mine - with the familiar light frown lines of a man of 25. But that was just not me. I had no memory of how I had been brought to
that hospital ward and the healthcare assistant was of little assistance on
that question. Then this woman named Sharon, who I could not remember of
meeting before, came affirming that she was my mother. I had to tell her that I
had amnesia and had no memory of being acquainted with her. I lied. I knew
perfectly well that I had no amnesia. That woman simply couldn't be my mother
because I knew my mother well and she, unlike Sharon, couldn't speak a word of
English in the first place. And I wasn't mad either, since my English accent
certainly confirmed that Sharon had to have somehow made a mistake. In the
minute I began to talk to Sharon, she made an expression of bewilderment.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">“What happened t' your voice? I cannot understand you well.”</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">In the following day - based on the fact that my English sounded
pretty much like that of a Latin American and on the information that Sharon
fed to the senior staff nurse - I heard the news. </span><span lang="EN-US">“What?”</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">“<i>Foreign accent syndrome</i>.” The nurse practitioner who came
that afternoon emphasised, visibly not convinced of her own words. “You
must be suffering from foreign accent syndrome. It's rare. But that's the only
explanation we can give you preliminary.”</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this the result of a stroke or a head trauma?” I questioned, observing the
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head injury. But the community support officers who rescued you at Hyde Park
informed us that they found you<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>unconscious</i>.” She
moved her eyes over the records sheet in her hands, as if to fill her
statement with some authority. “Whatever had brought you to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">“Sadly, cases of foreign accent syndrome have become oddly
frequent in England in the last years. Yours, as far as we have knowledge, is
the third case in the UK just this year.”</span><span lang="EN-US"><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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information on that syndrome. In matter of minutes she gave us a mini lecture
that made me feel less of an oddball case. In Devonshire - Southwestern England
- an acute migraine sufferer named Sarah Colwill had a severe headache and,
after passing out, woke up no longer speaking with her usual West Country lilt
but with a Chinese accent instead. Just a hundred and thirty miles Northeast,
in Gloucestershire, another case involved a woman named Kay Russell who had
migraines as well and who, after a kip, woke up with a French accent. Under
that perspective, my case was less unusual.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Notice: <i>sunshine</i> above also means <i>bringer of happiness</i>. This matches the use of sunshine in My Girl - song by The Temptation from 1964. The words in the song explicitly states talking 'bout my girl.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">Rich and Nomi from Radio Aire were praising my name after having read the email I wrote to them. I'd spent the night editing the final part of A-Wake! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">Dale Carnegie is mostly known for How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936). Here, the main idea is that we can get a better </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">response from other's behaviour toward us by altering our own behaviour toward others. It does echo the idea that events of reality somehow responds to our subconscious mind or thoughts (see <a href="http://www.thebookisinthetablet2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/a-wake-part-two.html">A-Awake! Two</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">I particularly haven't read How to Stop Worrying in depth. But skimming through it, I noticed one of its main parts: How to Keep from Worrying about Criticism. In the overall, the whole book emphasises the message that there's no good outcome on worrying and giving too much heed to stress - the weight of the world. The same idea is present in other works that deals with conquering success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">This is how the words <b>Fear</b> and </span><b style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Worry</span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">appear in Science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">"Every hour (...) you spend in giving heed to <b>doubts</b> and <b>fears</b>, every hour you spend in <b>worry</b>,<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">sets a current away from you in the whole domain of intelligent Substance</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">This is how <b>Fear </b>and <b>Worry </b>appear in Secret.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">"Youth (...) is a mental state. You can be just as brisk, just as active, (...) as you were ten or twenty years ago."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">These words remind me of the film The Matrix (1999) which centres around a game-like artificial reality where humans dwell - echoing Plato's Myth of the Cave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">Whatever is the message of in the words of Wake, it undeniably has caused a great effect on people. On Radio Aire, quite a few times, I heard it's being considered the song of the year, and it continues topping charts around the world. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">Also, Wake was the lead single from Avicii studio album entitled TRUE. Avicii stated that it "is about me being true to my sound and my own influences..." Now, that can lead to a whole lot of other interpretations.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul's ironic words made me realise that I must've been talking on that subject for ages. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">For a split second Paul managed to make me feel embarrassed.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A guiding dog, the arms and hands, a stick; all these would be more appropriate material. But we, naturally, complete the meaning with our life experience. The composer refers to the heart of the person who is feeling the way. <i>Beating heart</i> is used as synonym to / metaphor of <i>intuition</i>. This is an authentic interpretation.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I can't tell where the journey will end</i> diverges from the precept preached in these books that one 'must form a clear mental picture of what you want'. Still, <i>I know where to start</i> seems to refer to the initial image that one has to form and achieve to go for the greater picture. Also, it seems authentic to interpret that <i>I can't tell where the journey will end</i> expresses irony, since the line <i>I know where to start</i> actually conveys certainty and a definite purpose.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: center;"><i>They say I'm caught up in a dream</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: center;">Irony is also a sign that he/ she isn't shaken by opinions of doubters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">It's conveys observance to precepts of Law of Attraction.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is what </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Science </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">says</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">about doubt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">...is another work that approach the precepts of LOA. It has a lot more to say about the matter of admonition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">"The majority of people who fail (...) are, generally, easily influenced by the <i>opinions</i> of others."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">The great success of Wake may have nothing to do with its subtle message of spirituality and success. It may just please the public as some other meaningless songs do. Its references to texts on Law of Attraction seem evident though. And perhaps the success Avicii is enjoying is a result of his own mastery of the precepts of LOAttraction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, check out</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“So, Nick, as I was saying…”</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a sunny Sunday of August. I was filling the ears of this lad from Huddersfield, who’d rescued me from a lonely afternoon in Leeds by kindly inviting me to go to Wakefield Pride.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“…this idea is present in the words of many songs.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">”</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">I continued explaining such ideas to Nick whilst we sat on a bench, having a break from the noise and gaiety of Wakefield Pride. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">“Listen, this is one of the songs I told you about.” I said all excited.</span></div>
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was going nuts to see any association between</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 13pt; text-align: justify;">Wake<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt; text-align: justify;">and the idea of spirituality and
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couldn't blame him. I myself consider the words<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in <i>Wake<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>bit strange; it’s not really easy to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">You don't really get what<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Be More Dog</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>means until you see
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shows an aloof and indifferent cat that decides to act as a dog -
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thus, by watching the official video of Wake we can
start making more sense of the words. So, considering the video, here I share
my impression of the meaning of the words in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wake</i>.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Feel my way</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">through the darkness.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Guided by a beatin heart.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">I can't tell how the journey will end.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">By I know where to start.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It starts
with this stunning lass waking up by who seems to be her little sister.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><i>So, wake me up when</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><i>it's all over.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><i>When I'm wiser and</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><i>I'm older.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">As the chorus starts, the stunning</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"> lass is shown walking alongside her sister in what seems to be a rural traditional community.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The people who they come across in the street are apparently cold and hostile to them. The video depicts a clash between the lasses, who dress up a trendy fashion, and the people, who dress in more traditional clothing.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such depiction highlights the meaning of previous lines.</span></span></div>
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<i style="line-height: 13pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They tell me I'm too young to understand.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">They say I'm caught up in a dream.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">So, that's fine by me.</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The image also highlights
the irony of the chorus, as the trendy lass seems to assert herself in the face
of others. She is shown to be out of place in the community.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The video
depiction of a clash between the lass v. community does match the
song's initial words of admonishment - <i>They say I'm too young /
caught up in a dream / life will pass me by</i>. The other half of the video,
however, match the lines of <i>Wake </i>in a more abstract level.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The trendy lass mounts a horse, leaves the small community behind, gallops through a field, and reaches a big city.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Then, she </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;">takes a shine to a lady even trendier than her, and follows her along other young ones to a gig by Avicii and Aloe Blacc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The video images are symbolic of the song's idea of freedom - </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have 2 hands.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hope I get a chance to travel the world</i>. <i>I don't have any plans</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- and the song's idea of adventure and playfulness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Life is a game made for everyone</i>. <i>And love is the prize</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">The coda shows the lass galloping back to the
community,</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">waking up her little sister, and cheerfully telling
her:</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Get up. Pack your things. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">[We're going] somewhere we belong."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then, they hit the road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">The idea of finding one's true self seems to be
encapsulated by this image - as expressed in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Wake</i>.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>All this time I was finding myself.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And I didn't know I was lost.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">The video
certainly conveys the idea of breaking free from traditional values, of leaving
a life of slumber behind, of pursuing to experience the vigour of youth to its
full potential. Possibly,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to some,
the video still doesn't clarify what the words of <i>Wake Me Up</i> has
to do with the idea of spirituality and success.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some final considerations.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">Nothing says spirituality more than a reference from the Bible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">And it's easy to find some references about waking up/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px; text-align: justify;">being awake in the books of the Bible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">For you are all children of light, (...) So then let us not sleep, (...) but let us keep awake... Thessalonians 5.5-6.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">For the hour has come for you to wake from sleep, for salvation is nearer... Romans 13-11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. (...) Death is swallowed up in victory. Corinthians 15.51/54.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">Awake, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Ephesians 5.14. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Sleep<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB">in the Bible is a metaphor for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>death</i>. It isn't too
far-fetched, I suppose, to see that the lass in the video is depicted as
somewhat being buried alive in a dead end of the world - a place offering her
no prospect of progress. The lines of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wake<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>mention admonishment against<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>a dream</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>a chance to travel the world</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- metaphors to departing from one's
current reality and place of birth. The lines of Wake also reveal a disdain
against such admonitions.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Well
that's fine by me</i>. Such disdain implies desire to wake from t' slumber
of a static life.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">And what about success?</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the
end of the video, the lass decides to leave the community and pursue happiness
by going to a place where she and her sister belong. The image of the girls
hitting the road couldn't be more symbolic of the human exodus towards a
promised land. Is it too much to parallel this to pursuing
success?</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">Now, what's is undeniable is that Avicii is
enjoying a great success</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wake
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Wake</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">reached
number 1 in t' UK, Ireland, USA, n' many countries of Europe.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">I heard on
radio Aire <i>Wake</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is considered so far t' song of 2013.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">Is there a special reason to explain the great success
of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wake?</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">Does it have anything to do with some spiritual
principle?</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I do affirm that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wake</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>contains words that transmit a strong
message about spirituality and success and that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wake</i> subtly speaks its
message to the people who are living the dawn of an awakening era. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">I, particularly, can trace the choice of some words
and lines in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wake </i>back</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">to modern American texts on the philosophy of
personal success, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">i.e., self-improvement, self-fulfilment, and
getting rich.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">That's how some odd choices of words and lines in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wake,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>I suppose, gain
further meaning and reveal more clearly its relation to spirituality and
success.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">If you want to check the origins of such
choices, please, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">click the link below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 26.363636016845703px;"><a href="http://thebookisinthetablet2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/a-wake-part-two.html">A-Wake</a>! Part Two</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is your name? must be one of the 1st sentences that is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">formally </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">taught in school either to children or learners of English as L2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's quite a complex sentence but, nonetheless, useful and easy to remember.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It'd be less complex perhaps if it had no verb to be - as in, What Your Name?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What Your Name is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">actually a variant form of saying What <b>is</b> your name? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such form doesn't obey the grammatical norms of Standard English.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What your name, however, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">occurs </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">in English </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">perhaps</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">more often than we suppose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What you name</i> omits the verb <i>be</i> - am, is, are. In such position <i>be </i>assumes the grammatical function of 'copula'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Concise OED, is a connecting word, in particular a form of the verb <i>be</i> connecting a subject and complement. So, in <i>My name is Earl</i>, 'is' assumes the function of copula, linking 'My name' (subject) and 'Earl' (complement).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">A fact that some may ignore is that omitting the copula be in English is considerably common.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The omission of copula be was documented as a common feature of the African American Vernacular English - aka, Black English or Ebonics - in the work <i>Language In The Inner City </i>by William Labov (1972). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">In <i>Language...</i> Labov presents examples of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">actual </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">speech like:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Means he a faggot. vis-à-vis </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Means he <b>is</b> a faggot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You out the game. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">vis-à-vis You <b>are</b> out of the game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But everybody not black. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">vis-à-vis</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">everybody <b>is</b> not black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the omission of copula be is not a feature of an isolated dialect of English. It can be noticed in other varieties, including British English.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A simple example can be observed in the Big Brother UK (Series 14). When the presenter Emma Willis says 'the vote lines (...) are now closed', in the 3D captions on screen the copula - are - is omitted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: right;">Walking through the streets of Leeds, I could observe other examples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>All Welcome</i>, instead of All <b>are</b> Welcome, is written in a notice board at the side of Wrangthorn Church in Hyde Park Corner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walking down Cardigan Road (Headingley), we can equally read Everyone Welcome, instead of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Everyone <b>Is</b> Welcome in a sign outside Milford Builders Merchants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Towards the district of Sheepscar, in the sign outside Geoff's Upholstery one reads <i>No Job Too Small</i>, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">instead of a more standard form No Job </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">is</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Too Small.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the city center, entering in a Pound Shop , I spotted <i>Everything 99p or Less</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The form Everything <b>is</b> 99p or Less </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">would be more in accord to the standard norms of English.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Consice OED, <em>Cheddar</em> is defined as a kind of cheese, firm and smooth, yellow, white, or orange, and originally made in Cheddar in South-Western England.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The comercial use of the word <em>Cheddar </em>is not restricted by any commercial law. That's why we may easily come across some cheese tagged "Cheddar" in a supermarket even if it's not genuinely produced in Cheddar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cornish </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">is an adjective relating to Cornwall; </span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="longtext"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Cornish pasty</em> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">designates “a pasty containing seasoned meat and vegetables, especially potato” (<em>Concise OED</em>). Despite the name, Cornish pasty doesn’t have to be produced in Cornwall. But if a Cornish Pasty is stamped with a <em>PGI</em> or a <em>PDO</em> badge of honour, it means <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that the</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cornish pasty really comes from Cornwall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"Sometimes a drag queen's got to do what a drag queen's got to do. Whether is laying a foundation or painting the house down." <em>The house down </em>is a phrase used by queens just to emphasise meaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Remember the golden shower rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto Ru." Needless to say the <em>the golden shower rule </em>is a deviation of the phrase <em>golden rule</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Nothing more proper to show how this sentence sounds weird than the reaction of Alaska, who not only looks puzzled but let out a "What?!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"America the bootifull." Bootiful is a blend of <em>booty </em>and <em>beautiful</em>; a word that is certainly not a new, but, not common.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"Red sky at night. Sailor's delight." RuPaul says this out of the blue. This rhyme is a common wheather lore familiar to mariners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"Is that your boa? Or you're just ready to flock me?" This is a deviation of the common sentence that ends in ...<em>Or are you just happy to see me</em>? This sentence is an example of a <em>knob joke </em>that makes reference to an erection and that was made popular by Mae West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Sneaker</em>. Sometimes you feel like a <em>nut</em>. Sometimes you feel like <em>A Hundred Thousand Dolla</em>r <em>Bar </em>- non. Here's <em>Whatchamacallit</em>." All words in italics are names of choc bars. <em>Nut - </em>I suppose <em>- </em>is short for <em>Nutty Bar</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"She's sixteen going on sickening." This sentence from the song <em>Sixteen going on seventeen </em>is frequently used in the show in a modified manner. Later in this episode Ms Visage refers to Jinkx look as "Sixteen going on forty-seven."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In this last episode before the new drag superstar is revealed, RuPaul didn't spear the public of his encrypted double-entendre. So, that's how she opens the show: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"Even I can't quite put my finger on the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent, it will take to win the title of America's next drag superstar. " <em>Charisma</em>, <em>Uniqueness</em>, <em>Nerve</em>, and <em>Talent</em>, as already mentioned in previous posts, form an acronym to c.u.n.t. - vulgar word for vagina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">The English used in the review of this season's contestants would take a whole new post to be properly analysed. It's a very complex language full of references, allusions, and witticisms. But there's no time for that because the <i>Reunion </i>episode is about to air on tv. So I leave you with RuPaul's words which reveals how conscious he is of the strangeness of the <a href="http://www.thebookisinthetablet2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/drag-queens-english.html"><em>Drag Queen</em>'<em>s English</em></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"She bring it to you every ball. Why y'all gagging so? Did you understand that? If not, you could use a refresher course in Drag Linguistics; hashtag shitmygirlsays."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of this 5fth season of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RuPaul</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s Drag Race</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I present here a countdown of the remarkable idiosyncratic expressions that occurred through this 5th season of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">RPDRace</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> (ep. 4 - 13).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">RuPaul uses this nonsense expression to introduce the snatch game guess Downtown Julie Brown. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Wubba wubba wubba </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">is an expression that became Downtown Julie’s catchphrase on <em>MTV</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An interesting expression occurred in the workroom, right after Jade Jolie jokes, “You know what’s ugly? Poverty.” Jinkx then replies: “The Jade… the Jade of it all.” This expression refers back to the phrase <i>The shade</i>… <i>the shade of it all</i> that was introduced in RPDRace season 4 by Latrice Royal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"Long story short: the season of the fish smells like trout." Alaska plays juxtaposing the words <em>fish</em> and <em>trout</em> - <em>fish </em>meaning feminine sexy and <em>trout </em>meaning manly and somehow decadent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">Chacha’s criticism on the drag queen’s way of
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week) – the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.thebookisinthetablet2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/drag-queens-english.html"><span lang="EN-GB">Drag Queen’s English</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, as I labelled it –, it’s when Coco explains the
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Alyssa.” Mahogani asks Coco.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>T</i>, as everyone must know by now, means ‘true’.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #548dd4; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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things happened, and… obligations weren’t fulfilled. And it put us in a situation
where our friendship was on the line. (…) Legally I had to do that. (…) With
all the controversy at Miss Gay America, this is a personal vendetta for
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“…And America’s next drag superstar needs to really
embrace her inner child, if she’s gonna become one fierce mother-tucker.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Mother-tucker</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is used instead of the usual
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toys </span>into cutey patooties.” RuPaul explains as the pit
crew men enter carrying small dummies.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Boy toy</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is an allusion to the pit crew since they
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14pt;">“Ready, set, drag the children.” RuPaul joins the
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Our challenge today is to put together a children’s
television show, which is full of sneaky little dirty double-entendre.” There’s
nothing odd here. Alaska’s explanation of the challenge is highlighted here,
because it incidentally highlights a remarking feature of the Drag Queen's
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Look
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my box. This is a petite box. I don’t think it Michelle’s.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Box</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">is
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The word of the day is blow.” <i>Blow</i> is an allusion to <i>blow job</i>, which is vulgar slang for ‘fellatio’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">“She’s a
sex pistol.” Ru makes a reference to English punk rock band <i>Sex Pistols</i>.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“She’s
very Singapore Airlines.” Santino says to Bervely Hillz, alluding to the flight
attendants - Singapore Girls - who became an icon of the airline.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">“Hold me
closer, tiny dancer.” Santino makes a reference to the words of Elton John’s
song<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Tiny Dancer</i>.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">She is a hot mesh.” Ru says</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>hot mesh</i>, when we’d normally hear<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>hot mess</i>, referring to the fabric that Detox is wearing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Pink panther on the runway.” Ru makes a reference to the words of his song <i>Glamazon</i>, adding the word ‘pink’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“It’s a mullet dress.” Guess judge Coco Austine says. <i>Mullet dress</i> is a dress that reminds a mullet hairdo: short and clean cut in the front, and long in the back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">“Oh,
dangerous liaisons.” Ru makes a reference to the 1988 film<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Dangerous Liaisons<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>because Jynx’s costume design
reminds the style used in the film.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Very
bed, bath, and Beyoncé.” Ru plays with the name of the retail store <i>Bed</i>, <i>Bath</i>, <i>&
Beyond</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I didn’t
know she was into bears.” Ru says during the presentation of Coco, who is
holding a teddy bear. Ru evokes the meaning of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>bear</i> as a ‘strong hairy
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Life
in plastic, it’s fantastic.” They make reference to the words of the
song by<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>Aqua</i>.</span></span><br />
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more play on words and double-entendre can be noticed in the kids’ show. The
name Anita Bum, reminds “I need a bum”. Anita use of the words<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>cut</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> and </span><i>uncut</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> with carrots is an allusion to male circumcision.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Magic Bush</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">, name of the 2o kid’s programme, plays with the vulgar
meaning of the word<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>bush </i>‘woman’s
pubic hair’. <i>Lola the exploda </i>is a reference to animated
character <i>Dora the Explorer</i>. And when Lineysha says, “Miss Lola
favourite part is the cream,” she alludes to vulgar slang<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>cream</i>.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">*XuPaul: a blend name which mixes RuPaul and XuXa - most successful and enterprising children's tv show host in Latin America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 13pt;">The essence of linguistic strangeness, as I understand, is the utterance of a word, phrase, or sentence that's been used and repeated time after time b'for but...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">“My queens, for the first time in Drag Race history I’m not going to say for the first time in Drag Race history,” Ru says. This is a rather humorous structure, used to make an ironic statement; this pattern is often used. In<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>American Dad</i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i>(</span>s5e18), Steve uses a rather similar odd structure based on the classic “yo mama” jokes: “Mom, you are not smart. I don’t tell ‘yo mama’s so dumb’ jokes. I tell ‘my mama’s so dumb’ jokes. Example: my mama’s so dumb, I don’t tell ‘yo mama’s so dumb’ jokes. </span>I tell ‘my mama’s so dumb’ jokes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Now, using just your mouths, I want to see winning lip-synch performances – of my songs,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Tranny Chaser</i>…<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Lady Boy</i>, and Peanut Butter.” RuPaul utters the song titles with an unusual blowy voice, in a slack-jawed manner; the ‘b’ in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Lady Boy</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>even sounds like the word initial ‘b’ in Spanish.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...Until I realised that <b>c</b>harisma, <b>u</b>niqueness, <b>n</b>erve, and <b>t</b>alent, form a an acronym: c.u.n.t. OMG!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><i>RuPaul’s
Drag Race</i></span><span class="longtext"> Season 5
had its première this Monday night – January 28. The fresh display of gaudy men
in Drag was only matched by the fresh display of gaudy expressions in English –
most of them uttered by the Queen mother RuPaul. But the freshness and
gaudiness of RuPaul’s English goes beyond the unconventional choice of words and
peculiar neologisms; the way RuPaul delivers certain lines illustrates well a
type of what David Crystal calls <a href="http://thebookisinthetablet2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/linguistic-strangeness-in-english.html">Linguistic Strangeness</a>.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>That's all</i> - RuPaul mimics Miranda Priestly</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">In the première of Season 4 RuPaul introduced his
“that’s all” warning to the ‘safe’ girls. Here, RuPaul clearly mimics Miranda
Priestly from <i>The</i> <i>Devil Wears Prada</i>. The way RuPaul
glances to the side, <i>blocking</i> the
girls, matches the character’s depiction by author Lauren Weisberger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">One of the most common patterns of strangeness in language is the use “of abnormal voices”</span><b>. </b><span class="longtext">As
Crystal says,</span> a common type of abnormal voice is when the speaker adopts
a regional of social accent other than the speaker’s own, or the speaker uses
an unnatural tone of voice which recalls perhaps a famous personality (<span class="longtext">1990. p. 19)</span>.<span class="longtext"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ru again used <i>that’s all</i> à la Miranda this Monday. But she also adopted a new
odd linguistic behaviour <span class="longtext">as Penny Tration walked off the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><i>You better sissy
that walk</i>, Ru said, assuming an atypical facial expression, head motion,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">It doesn't seem clear if Ru is mimicking someone
specifically. I’d place my bets on infant reality tv personality Honey Boo
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">Penny and Honey Boo Boo share two things in common: they both take
part in runway contests and are both big proportioned ladies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">But the allusion
to Honey Boo Boo is not just due to matters of size. I believe RuPaul
indentifies herself with Honey Boo Boo’s sassy style and social unconventionality.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">One aspect that surely brings Ru and Boo Boo together
is their odd and inventive use of language. The reality show <i>Here Comes Honey Boo Boo</i> often focuses
on Honey Boo Boo’s peculiar English. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<i><span style="font-style: normal;">A dolla make me holla, </span></i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">honey boo boo</span></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> child!</span></i>” <i>Honey boo boo</i> are actually terms of
endearment. Alana Thompson, Boo Boo’s real name, used <b><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">honey boo boo child</span></i></b>
as an interjection. She rhymes dolla and holla (holler, shout).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<i><span style="font-style: normal;">I have three sisters. </span></i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Pumpkin</span></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is the craziest. Anna is
the </span>pregnantest</i><i><span style="font-style: normal;">.” </span>Pregnant</i><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is an adjective, so although Boo Boo actually follows a rule of
English, the use of superlative with </span>pregnant</i><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is unconventional because
you cannot be more or less pregnant.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">“No one can be proper and </span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">etiquettely</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;"> all the time.” Boo Boo
creates an adverb that derivates from the noun </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">etiquette</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">. It’s an unusual adverb.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">"I'm sassified." Boo boo blends </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">sassy</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;"> and satisfied.</span></span></div>
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Everyone from Boo Boo’s family uses the word <b><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">redneckognize</span></i></b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
which is a blend of <i>redneck</i> and <i>recognise</i>.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">“My gay uncle is </span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">poodle</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">…” Boo Boo’s word for gay.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">“</span></i>Shh! It’s a poodle.<i><span style="font-style: normal;">” </span></i>Boo Boo
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<i><span style="font-style: normal;">We put Glitzy on the table, and she </span></i><b><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">ooo’d</span></i></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> herself.</span></i>” Boo
Boo’s word for ‘pooped’.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">“Baby Kaitlyn arrived on the </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Biscuit Express</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">!” </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Biscuit</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;"> is the word for ‘vagina’ used by </span></i>Boo Boo’s
family members. <i>Biscuit Express</i><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> thus is Boo Boo’s phrase to ‘birth’.</span></i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><i>Beautimous</i></span><span class="longtext"> ‘some kind of beautiful’, <i>s’mage</i> ‘massage’, <i>s’mexy</i> and <i>sexmous</i>
‘some kind of sexy’, are just some words used by Boo Boo’s mother – words that are
sure to be part of Boo Boo’s vocabulary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">Like the English of <i>RPDRace </i>the English of Boo Boo’s family
circle presents its share of odd words and phrases. And since <i>Here Comes Honey Boo Boo</i> is a reality
show that follows Boo Boo’s family with no scripted speech, it provides evidence
that linguistic strangeness is an ordinary aspect of language – and not an exclusive feature of the <a href="http://www.thebookisinthetablet2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/drag-queens-english.html">Drag Queen’s English</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">And this opening episode was crammed with very peculiar expressions of English, particularly those uttered by the Queen mother RuPaul. If you like the strange and creative English of <i>RPDRace </i>enjoy this extra edition of the blog.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"> Read it to filth!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“</span><span class="longtext">…and I’m the Queen bee…” </span><span class="longtext">Detox makes reference to her costume and the word <i>queen</i> (homossexual)</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<span class="longtext">Hunny, I’m serving up fish. Tuna on a platter.” </span><span class="longtext">Jade Jolie. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">"</span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">Honey Mahogany is like a </span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal;">Rupaul’s Drag Race poster…but not quite as polished</span></i><span class="st"><i>. Sorry about it</i></span><span class="st">.</span><span class="longtext">” </span><span class="longtext">Detox says these final three words singing</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="sorttext">“And then enter Coco Montrese.<br />
</span>The face crack of the century.<span class="sorttext">” </span><span class="sorttext"></span><span class="longtext">Allyssa. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="longtext"><i>Face crack</i></span></b><span class="longtext">, in the <i>urban dictionary</i> means addicted to facebook – though I'm not sure of this meaning is what Alyssa implied. Alyssa and Coco are mortal enemies; Alyssa accuses Coco of <i>back stabbing</i>; does that has anything to do with <i>face crack</i>?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Welcome my Queens. I’ve told you California was the
place you ought to be. So you tightened up your tuck, and you flew to Beverly…
Hills. Adjacent that is. So, whether you’re a fresh princess of Bel-Air, a
Malibu Barbie, or just serving real housewife realness, to get your big break in </span><span class="toctext">RuPaullywood you’ll need to make an even bigger splash and really shake things up!</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><b><i>tuck</i> </b>(hyde penis and balls in the body),</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>fresh princess of Bel-Air...</i></b> allusion to the sitcom</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i> Fresh Prince of Bell-Air</i>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>real housewife realness</i></b>, reference to the reality show</span><i><span style="font-size: large;"> Real</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Housewives</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“What we’re looking for is underwater glamour.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">
“…like…giv’ us fish.” Mike Ruiz.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Please, notice there’s no p in the water.” </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">RuPaul plays with the sentece </span><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">there’s no p in pool.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“It’s the bumblefish.” </span><span class="longtext">Ruiz identify the queens with differents types of <i>fish</i>; he calls Detox of <i>bumblefish</i>. </span><span class="longtext"><i>Bumblefish</i></span><span class="longtext"> doesn't exist, but is a deviation of <i>bumblebee</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“The time’s come for you to sink for your life.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul corrupts his own catchphrase replacing the original <i>lip-sync</i> for <i>sink</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Don’t be so shallow Alyssa.”</span><span class="longtext"> RuPaul says b'cos Alyssa stays closer to the service; RuPaul uses an admonishing tone<i> </i>since <i>shallow</i> also means a 'superficial person'.</span></span><br />
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Poseidon adventure</i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Alaska is underwater. Damn you global warming.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul, talking to Alaska.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“It’s Honey Mahogany!… Honey, I sunk the kids.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul referes to the film <i>Honey, I shrunk the kids</i>.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Sparkle</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">
Lineysha!” (Sparkle ‘brilha’ Lineysha) RuPaul talks to the drag Lineysha Sparx.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Serving Tuna Turner. Instant Coco, just add water.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul talks to
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“All that ass.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul makes reference to the film title of <i>All That Jazz</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">"I dream of Jynx.” Santino </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">makes a reference to the series </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><i>I Dream of Jeannie</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Loofah my ass” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul uses <i>'my ass' </i>- an expression of disagreement - making a reference to the loofah sewed in the back part of her costume.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“She’s detoxing from crack by the way.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul making a reference to the drag Detox with the verb detex and allude to crack (<i>butt crack</i>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“The lady boy in red.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul makes reference to the film title <i>The Lady in Red</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“You can catch more flies with Honey Mahogany.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“</span>The men love me, the women
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Ding, ding, ding…” Ruiz mimics the sound tune of NBC network because Jade wears the simbols of the channel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“A Penny for your thoughts.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul alludes to Penny Tration.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“I’m walking slow and letting them take all the Penny
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Alaska. I can see Russia from here.” </span><span class="longtext">RuPaul refers to the drag Alaska and allude to her bottom as she lives the runway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><b><i>Eloguent</i></b>, compound of <i>Elegant</i> and <i>Eloquent </i>which started from a <i>slip of the tongue</i> of Michelle Visage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><b><i>TP</i></b>, normally <i>toilet paper</i>; here means <i>total package</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">…and may the best woman win. When RuPaul announces this, we know a show is about to start. But the fun is not restricted to the runway presentation of the drag queens; it also comes from how RuPaul & the judges use language during the presentation. What they say illustrates the linguistic deviations quite characteristic of the Drag Queen’s English.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">This initial statement itself characterises a non sequitur sentence, since a <i>woman</i> cannot <i>win</i> a competition of <i>gentlemen</i> – it only makes sense as we know the <i>gentlemen</i> in the race are in drag.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">Other types of strangeness can be heard during the runway presentation. </span>Here is a top list of the first two seasons.<span class="longtext"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Ooh, it’s severe up in here.” RuPaul uses rhyming to refer to Nina Flowers – <i>severe</i> meaning ‘awsome’ (1).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Ooh, lion queen.” RuPaul makes a reference to <i>The Lion King</i> in his comment on Jade’s outfit which has an African savage style </span><span style="font-size: large;">(1).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Tammy Brown is in town.” RuPaul uses rhyming to announce Tammy’s entrance (1).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Boom, boom, boom-boom. Boom, boom-boom. Boom, boom-boom.” Quest judge Debra Wilson says rhythmically as Rebecca struts off the runway, drawing attention to Rebecca’s voluptuous bottom </span><span style="font-size: large;">(3).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Oh my Gok!” Perhaps a slip of the tongue, but this is what RuPaul says after seeing Shannel juggling on the runway (4).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Do not accept an apple from this woman.” RuPaul makes a reference to <i>Snow White</i> tale, implying that Nina Flower’s look reminds the wicked witch (5).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“CE Oh my my my…” Merle Ginsberg comments on Bebe Zahara’s executive look, blending <i>CEO</i> – Chief Executive Officer – and the interjection <i>oh my</i> (6).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Yes… Something to wash down the fava beans.” RuPaul makes an allusion to <i>The</i> <i>Silence of the Lambs </i>after Shannel mimics Hannibal Lecter’s slurping noise that follows his words ‘I ate his liver with some fava beans’ (6).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Ms Diana Rossberry.” RuPaul comments on Bebe Zahara, whose outfit represents raspberry </span><span style="font-size: large;">(6).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Fruit is the new fur.” Rupaul comments on Nina Flowers, whose outfit has pieces of mango in the collar and belt (6).</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Sonique-a-nique-a-nique-a-nique-a-nique-aaah…” RuPaul adds an odd eco to the contestant’s name Sonique in a manner that recalls the French song <i>Dominique</i> (2). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“…Oh, she’s making a Sonique boom.” RuPaul makes a reference to <i>sonic boom</i> alluding to Sonique’s evident large hips and behind (2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Oh my, this just is wicked…” RuPaul makes an allusion to the character of the <i>wicked witch</i> since the contestant’s costume reminds one of a witch (2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I’m serving fish, honey – and this ain’t trout.” Jujubi says meaning that she’s dressed like a real woman, not like a drag (2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“That girl will eat Beyoncé in one swallow” RuPaul means that the contest will obliterate Beyoncé fame and also alludes to the contestant’s plus size (2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Oh… my… sweet Gherkins!” Rupaul’s reaction to Tyra (2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Even the cowgirls get the blues…” Guest judge Tanya Tucker alludes to Pandora’s Boxx jeans with the title of the 1994 film by Gus Van Saint (3).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Julie Newmar eat your heart out… Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” RuPaul comments on Sonique referencing Julie Newmar and the exploitation film of 1965 (4).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Honey, if that skirt were any shorter, we’d have to arrest you for dealing crack!” RuPaul uses a subordinate sentence that doesn’t seem to complete the main sentence; <i>dealing crack</i> is an allusion to <i>butt crack</i> (4).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<i><span style="font-style: normal;">These ruffles have not any</span></i><span class="st"><i> </i>ridges.</span>” Guess judge Lisa Rinna makes a reference to the crinkle cut chips <i>ruffles </i>alluding to the ornamental frill on Raven’s costume (4).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“That’s tutu much.” Guest judge Mathu Andersen alludes to the tutu costume that Sahara Davenport wears (5).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your drag mother is?” RuPaul makes a reference to the popular question presented on American television in final decades of the 1900s (8).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The apple bottom don’t fall far from the tree.” RuPaul modifies the idiom to allude to the contestants’ apple bottoms and their mother daughter resemblance (8).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was a long one. I bet <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">it won't feel as long as the two days wait until we can watch the new queens of <i>RPDRace</i> (</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Season 5 - 28 Jan</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">) making an entrance and parading their English.</span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:RelyOnVML/> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>PT-BR</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">I was helping Clifford – my Northern boyfriend – at the
garage where he works when, out of the blue, I turned to him and said: “I’ll
read you to filth…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“What…?” Clifford looked puzzled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Would you say that </span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">I’ll
read you to filth</span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"> is a sentence of English?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">“Never </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">’</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">eard it b’for. It don’
mek sense.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">I</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">’<i>ll
read you to filth</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is often
uttered by the queens of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Rupaul</i>’<i>s
Drag Race</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(see<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://thebookisinthetablet3.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/drag-queens-english.html"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Drag Queen</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">’<i>s English</i></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">). The first time I heard it was during the first
mini-challenge ‘the library is open’ (s. 02, ep. 07) when Jujubee, hands on
hips, pledged: “I’m not nervous. I’ll read a bitch. I will read you to
filth."</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">…<i>to filth</i>, I
suppose, means ‘utterly, to the bitter end.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Rupaul</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">’<i>s Drag Race</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>only
aired in the UK in 2009, on E4, and no further season was aired on a British
channel. It was natural that Clifford, born and bred in West Yorkshire, never
heard of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>reading</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as ‘the drag high art form of
shrugging off insults’ (see<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://thebookisinthetablet3.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/drag-queens-english-vogue.html"><span lang="EN-GB">DragQueen’s English: Vogue</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">).</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13pt;">As a
non-native speaker of English myself, I understand Clifford’s reaction to</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 13pt;"> </span><i style="line-height: 13pt;">I</i><span style="line-height: 13pt;">’</span><i style="line-height: 13pt;">ll read you to filth</i><span style="line-height: 13pt;">.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reading,
by the way, is one of the highlights of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>RPDRace</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in terms of English language. Each
instance of reading in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>RPDRace</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>becomes a fertile soil for linguistic
strangeness. Here are some interesting ones taken from the ‘library’
mini-challenge.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Season 2:</span></div>
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<span class="longtext" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2.1 “Ms Tyra, was your barbecue cancelled? Your grill
is f***** up.” Jujubee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(<i>grill </i>referring to teeth)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">2.2 “…</span>legendary you think you are?
Legendary… looks like leg.en.dary<span class="longtext">” Jujubee. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">(<i>leg en dary</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">is </span><span lang="EN-GB">homophone
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>leg 'n' dairy</i>).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2.3 “You got a grill that could put Black’n’Decker out
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<span style="font-size: large;">2.4 “You wanna call me a top model mommy? Bend over
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">3.1 “I</span>t’s not because you’re Asian.
It’s because I need some patian to deal with you!<span class="longtext">” Yara
Sofia. (Yara pronounces ‘patience’ as <i>patian</i>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">3.2 “Is that your teef or your feet?” Yara Sofia. (Yara
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">3.3 “</span>Your blue contacts are so
creepy, that it makes my skin itchy itchy itchy-pa’lante!<span class="longtext">”
Manila Luzon. (Manila makes a reference to a phrase in Spanish used by Sofia: ‘echa
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">3.4 “</span>It’s Dinner time Delta, and
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<span style="font-size: large;">3.5 “I know you call yourself top model, but I think
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<span style="font-size: large;">4.1 “Dida Ritz, I don’t know if that’s hot couture or hot
coutorn ’cause there’s holes in that shirt.” Dida Ritz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4.1 “Jiggly Caliente, BMW... Body Made Wrong.” Latrice
Royale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each instance falls in different categories </span><span style="font-size: large;">(which will be dealt with in future posts) </span><span style="font-size: large;">of strangeness:
while 3.4 has an unusual echo (<i>body-ody-ody</i>),
4.1 has a modified word or neologism (<i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">coutorn</i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">),
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, the degree of linguistic strangeness among these
instances varies. <span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">And some may even
disagree that they’re strange at all - comments welcome.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">As I'm looking forward to the season 5 (January 28), next post will be on the top runways readings </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">involving strangeness</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"> on <i>RPDRace</i>.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14763904653188927419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257500403387329993.post-81242333674769152412013-01-11T03:42:00.000+00:002013-06-15T02:11:53.128+01:00Appy Nu Year!<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">It’s a new year off course. Twenty thirteen! We’re living the future. And nothing spells future better than SPELLING DEVIATION.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext">Now, when SMS (Short Message Service), email, and <i>Facebook</i> are part of our daily lives, when we are constantly communicating with others using a computer keyboard or mobile keypad (virtual or not), spelling deviation is an undeniable trend. Actually, this is the most ordinary type of deviation one may find in English.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-acGalc9K9A0/UPHoKght-RI/AAAAAAAAAg8/IDXdvBjD9Jo/s1600/P160310_10.26_%255B01%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-acGalc9K9A0/UPHoKght-RI/AAAAAAAAAg8/IDXdvBjD9Jo/s400/P160310_10.26_%255B01%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Sox' - Stall at Doncaster Market</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'YULE' - Sign in Front of <i>The Library</i> pub at Headingley Ln_Leeds</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">To explore spelling deviation in English properly I’d have to start a blog exclusively on the topic. So, within the limitations of a single post, I invite you to observe pics of signs with spelling deviations that, perhaps, reveal tendencies for a new Standard.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stalls just a few metres from each other at Doncaster Market</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OK Comics: Livraria no Thorton's Arcade (Briggate_Leeds</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Spelling deviation is generally an issue of practicality and economy – i.e. communicate a word with less effort, omitting the spell of unheard consonant or vowels sounds.</span></span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Example of this is the spelling of <i>Daughter</i> as <i>Dotter </i>in the title of Mary Talbot's book.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Quiz Nite' The Centurion pub at Vicar Cross_Chester</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Nite</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"> is a word that has its own entry in the <i>Concise OED</i>, under the label ‘informal’, as “a non-standard spelling of night”.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Midnite' & 'Coffee 'n' cake' - Café at Headingley Lane_Leeds</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And <i>Nite</i> seems to be quite favoured in signs - at least, this is the evidence I've got in the North.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">’n’ or ’<i>n</i>, is another example that has a formalised entry in the <i>Concise OED</i> as a contraction of <i>and</i>.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span title="Example of this is the spelling of Daughter as Dotter in the title of Mary Talbot's book."><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Naturally, there are types of spelling deviation which actually points to a different type of linguistic deviation.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" title="Example of this is the spelling of Daughter as Dotter in the title of Mary Talbot's book."> <span title="LEASAGNE is a perfect example."> </span></span></span><br />
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