1. Rolling in the Deep (Jamie XX Remix) – Childish Gambino
2. Rumor Has It / Someone Like You – Glee Cast
3. Water and a Flame – Daniel Merriweather ft. Adele
4. Skyfall – Adele
5. Rolling in the Deep – Hackney Colliery Band
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November 9, 2012
Batman: The Animated Series: Season 1: Episode 55: Day of the Samurai
What’s the episode about? Ninja and SamuraiBatman fight honorably on the side of a volcano for the love of a butler named Alfred… kind of. Somehow NOBODY gets burnt to death. Not a realistic volcano fight. Would not order again.
When does this frame happen? Near the beginning, the evil ninja guy kidnaps a student and then… slices some fruit to… relieve stress while waiting for the ransom reply?
Why are you sharing it? Um… it’s a real ninja playing Fruit Ninja. The scene even starts off in the same perspective showing the mid-air swipe, JUST LIKE THE GAME.
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November 7, 2012
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November 5, 2012
Batman: The Animated Series: Season 1: Episode 44: Off-Balance
When does this frame happen? Somewhere in the middle. These episodes are only 20 minutes long, will it kill you to watch the whole thing?
Why are you sharing it? During a fight, someone slices off Batman’s utility belt like it’s made of thin paper. What? This utility belt houses serums, gases, lock-picking tools, batarangs, and it’s defeated by ONE SLICE? Ridiculous. Consider my disbelief un-suspended. …It’s also a pretty great superhero spandex crotch shot.
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October 31, 20121. (0)
2. (2) Skyfall, Spectre
3. (5) Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Moonraker, GoldenEye
4. (3) Live and Let Die, Octopussy, License to Kill
5. (9) From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace
6. (3) Diamonds Are Forever, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough
7. (2) Never Say Never Again, The Man With the Golden Gun
8. (0)
9.(1) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
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October 29, 2012
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October 29, 20121. Raise Your Glass – The Warblers (cover)
2. Price Tag – Jessie J feat. B.o.B.
3. Crayon – G-Dragon
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October 28, 20121. Addams Family (1991)
2. Addams Family Values (1993)
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
4. Beetlejuice (1988)
5. Ghostbusters (1984)
6. Murder by Death (1976)
7. Clue (1985)
8. Young Frankenstein (1974)
9. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
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October 22, 2012I have recently completed my master’s degree for Linguistics at the University of York. I am publishing the title and modified abstract for the 15000 word dissertation I submitted in September 2012 here as a reference for fellow linguists who may be be interested in obsolete English compounds and their link to language development. For any questions regarding the dissertation, Appendix A, or historical linguistics, please email: hughes.brianne at gmail.com
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From Turncoats To Backstabbers: How Headedness and Word Order Determine the Productivity of Agentive and Instrumental Compounding in English
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Abstract: According to a study by Clark et al (1986), English-speaking children spontaneously create exocentric V+N (turncoat) compounds during the development of agentive and instrumental compounding. Historically, the turncoat pattern has low productivity in English. Appendix A (attached) is a chronological list of all of the known turncoat compounds that entered English between 1050 and 2009. Only two new words of this pattern have been created in the past fifty years: Xpel-air and Pesterchum.
Turncoat compounds are advantageous for children learning verb-object (VO) languages such as English and Spanish because the pattern mirrors the syntax. Forms which are simple and transparent in accordance to the headedness and word order of a language are productive for both children and adults. Patterns that are structurally unclear, or that conflict with syntactic features, will be abandoned.
The advantage of simplicity that turncoat compounds offer to children is outweighed by its unmarked structure and many semantic limitations. The synthetic N+V+er (backstabber) pattern, on the other hand, complies with the headedness of English, is not limited by semantic clumping or verb transitivity, and can describe neutral objects as productively as it can reductive insults. Backstabber compounds also flourish in West Germanic languages, which share right-headedness with English.
Turncoat compounds are memorable and evocative descriptors of objects and occupations, but because of their clash with the headedness of English, their productivity cannot be sustained. Turncoat compounds will never challenge backstabber compound productivity.
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October 21, 2012