Why Do Americans and Brits Have Different Accents? | When Did American and British Accents Diverge? | English Pronunciation In 1776, whether you were declaring America independent from the crown or swearing your loyalty to King George III, your pronunciation would have been much the same. At that time, American and British accents hadn't yet diverged. What's surprising, though, is that Hollywood costume dramas get it all wrong: The Patriots and the Redcoats spoke with accents that were much closer to the contemporary American accent than to the Queen's English. It is the standard British accent that has drastically changed in the past two centuries, while the typical American accent has changed only subtly. Traditional English, whether spoken in the British Isles or the American colonies, was largely "rhotic." It was around the time of the American Revolution that non-rhotic speech came into use among the upper class in southern England, in and around London. "London pronunciation became the prerogative of a new breed of specialists — orthoepists and teachers of elocution.
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What Classic Literature Looks Like Without the Words 3774 11ShareNew Here’s some decor for grammar nerds: Between the Words, a project by Chicago-based artist and web developer Nicholas Rougeux, visualizes Moby Dick, Peter Pan, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (above), and other classic texts through their punctuation. In Rougeux’s posters, every comma, apostrophe, dash, question mark, and exclamation point (or other punctuation mark) used in each work spirals around a small illustration from the book. All the classic texts used are public domain works taken from Project Gutenberg. Posters cost between about $5 and $28, depending on the size. Everyone Speaks Text Message Illustration by The Heads of State Illustration by The Heads of State How do you spell “N'Ko” in N'Ko? For years, the Web’s lingua franca was English. For many tiny, endangered languages, digital technology has become a lifeline. When Traore was born, N’Ko had already been in use for several years. And yet, N’Ko was invented to allow Mande speakers like Traore to read and write in the languages they spoke at home. At the time, Guinea had a close relationship with the Soviet Union, and Kante managed to have two typewriters made in Eastern Europe with N’Ko letters. Designed as a language for the common man, N’Ko seemed destined to remain a code used by an elite. Heritage languages like N’Ko are taking on new life thanks to technology.
Film History Before 1920 The Lumiere Brothers and the Cinematographe: The innovative Lumiere brothers in France, Louis and Auguste (often called "the founding fathers of modern film"), who worked in a Lyons factory that manufactured photographic equipment and supplies, were inspired by Edison's work. They created their own combo movie camera and projector - a more portable, hand-held and lightweight device that could be cranked by hand and could project movie images to several spectators. It was dubbed the Cinematographe and patented in February, 1895. The first public test and demonstration of the Lumieres' camera-projector system (the Cinematographe) was made on March 22, 1895, in the Lumieres' basement. Leaving the Lumiere Factory (La Sortie des Ouviers de L'Usine Lumiere a Lyon), although it only consisted of an everyday outdoor image - factory workers leaving the Lumiere factory gate for home or for a lunch break. The 20-minute program included ten short films with twenty showings a day. Edison Vs.
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Why is English so weirdly different from other langu... English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition. For a normal language, spelling at least pretends a basic correspondence to the way people pronounce the words. But English is not normal. Spelling is a matter of writing, of course, whereas language is fundamentally about speaking. There is no other language, for example, that is close enough to English that we can get about half of what people are saying without training and the rest with only modest effort. We think it’s a nuisance that so many European languages assign gender to nouns for no reason, with French having female moons and male boats and such. More weirdness? Why is our language so eccentric? English started out as, essentially, a kind of German. I should make a qualification here.
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15 Creepy Vintage Valentines A love so thick you can cut it with a knife. (Photo) A steady diet of love via human flesh. A battle to the death for your heart. Truth in Valentine's advertising. A deadly Swiss army romance. This Valentine is the very definition of a dysfunctional relationship. A prescient Valentine for 2017. Dripping paint or blood from the heart he ripped out? As we know from the news, kids and guns don't mix. Self immolation, vintage Valentine style. Let's hope there's no one inside this burning house of love. Back to a time when a serial killing hot dog was considered romantic. Krampus, breaking hearts everywhere—literally. Judging by this Valentine's postcard, the early 20th century was just a tad rapey. A zombiefied, flesh-eating Valentine.
Hip hop vocabulary compared between artists Matt Daniels compared rappers’ vocabularies to find out who knows the most words. Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever.I decided to compare this data point against the most famous artists in hip hop. I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake. As two points of reference, Daniels also counted the number of unique words in the first 5,000 used words from seven of Shakespeare’s works and the number of uniques from the first 35,000 words of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. I’m not sure how much stock I would put into these literary comparisons though, because this is purely a keyword count. That said, although there could be similar issues within the rapper comparisons, I bet the counts are more comparable.
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From Black Flag to Charles Manson, Raymond Pettibon's New Museum Retrospective Has Something for Everyone No Title (They are innocent…), ca. 1960s/2000s. Crayon and pencil on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 in (21.6 x 27.9 cm). Courtesy David Zwirner, New York In the first half of his life alone, Raymond Pettibon has produced an estimated 20,000 works. In his retrospective, Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work, currently on view at the New Museum, the range of work on display is tantalizingly diverse, from monochromatic pulp zines from 70s Los Angeles’ underground punk scene to his larger, vibrant paintings of the late 90s and 2000s. “Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work,” 2017. Pettibon’s work coheres in its constant critique of American sociopolitical issues. No Title (James Joyce Ulysses), 1995. No Title (Do you really), 2006. Eschewing traditional retrospective design, the curatorial team chose to fit Pettibon’s 940 drawings into themes incorporating social criticism and varying visual styles. No Title (Let me say,), 2012. No Title (Rebellion… Rebellion against…), 1983. No Title (The war, now…), 2008.