Today I spoke to my mom about differences she has noticed between the way her and I talk. Some of her responses were really funny and I was laughing the whole time. She said that I use a lot of slang such as “bro” and “mad.” She also told me how her and dad grew up in different states so I adopted the way I say some words from my dad and some from my mom. My dad grew up in Pennsylvania and my mom grew up in New York so my mom has more of a New York accent and she said im more like my dad with a Pennsylvanian accent. She gave me examples such as how I say “orange” with an “o” sound, like my dad, and she says “orange” with more of an “ah” sound. Also, I say “Florida” like “floor-ida” and she says it like “flar-ida.” I also asked her about the prayers they say in church because whenever we go, she is always saying different words and saying how they changed the prayers. She said, “Yeah, they are totally different now.” She also said how my dad and my Grandpa say “milk” like “melk”, “oil” like “erl”, and “toilet” like “terlet.” This reminded me how I have always noticed that the older generation says “idear” and not “idea.” Another example my mom gave me of how we speak differently is how I say “fire” and “car” but she says it with a New York accent like “fiya” and “cawh.” Lastly, I asked my mom about any differences she has noticed in spelling and she said she hasn’t noticed any except for in texting. She said when phones first came out she would text in “full words” but now there are a bunch of abbreviations such as “ttyl”, “brb”, lmfao” etc.
Author: Olivia Savitz
Blog Post 3
- Proposition: I have four fish.
- Truth value: True.
- Truth conditions: In order for this to be true, I would need to actually have four fish.
- Entailment: “I have four fish” entails “I have at least one fish.”
- Proposition: I have blue hair.
- Truth value: False.
- Truth conditions: I would have to actually have hair that is dyed blue.
- Entailment: “I have blue hair” would entail that “My hair is actually blue.”
- Proposition: There is Aliens.
- Truth value: Unknown.
- Truth conditions: For this to be true, there would have to be proof of Aliens.
- Entailment: “There is Aliens” would entail “Aliens are a real thing.”
Blog post 2
A word that has been borrowed from the donor language, Greenlandic, into the borrowing language, English, is the word, “kayak.” In Greenlandic, “kayak” is pronounced “qajaq.” The q is like a voiceless stop but further back in your mouth and the “a” is pronounced like the “a” in the English pronunciation of the word “father”. In English we pronounce the word kayak like “kaɪæk.” We pronounce the “q” like a “k” and the “j” like a “y”. This is because when a word is borrowed from one language into another, its pronunciation is adapted to suit the phonotactics and phonemic inventory of the borrowing language.
Blog Post 1
Some of the prescriptive rules that I was taught in my life is that you can not use a double negative because it is “improper” and “doesn’t make sense”. I have also been told that you cant use the word “aint” because it “isn’t a word” and it is “improper”. Another example is the word “gonna.” I actually use this word all the time when I am speaking but I am not allowed to use it on paper or in text because I have been told that it isn’t a word and it is improper. This also goes for the words, “gimme, lemme, and kinda. This did not cause me to stop using these forms in my everyday life but I don’t use them when writing an essay or writing something formal. I will only use it in quotes if I am typing out something that someone said.
February 13th
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