They’re, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrve
Cooooooool.
Dr. Eckert of Stanford recalled a study by one of her students, a woman who worked at a Jamba Juice and tracked instances of uptalking customers. She found that by far the most common uptalkers were fathers of young women. For them, it was “a way of showing themselves to be friendly and not asserting power in the situation,” she said.
Driven to Worry, and to Procrastinate
Seems obvious. But oh well, I am reading this article as a means of procrastination :D.
Heh:
“To tell the chronic procrastinator ‘Just do it,’ would be like saying to a clinically depressed person, ‘Cheer up,’ ” he said.
10 Things Nobody Warned Me about my Twenties
What do we, the non-professional post-college good-for-nothing twenties have? Futurama? Is Philip J. Fry the torch-bearer for my people?
I remember when I graduated college and had my big, empty adult life ahead of me with no direction or purpose. I had to ask myself heavy existential questions: why am I here? What am I doing? What’s the meaning of all this? For the most part these questions went unanswered, and merely resulted in several romantic nights between me and my bottle of gin. Frankly, there is no answer to these questions, and for the most part it’s best not to ask them.
I was fairly certain when I was a teenager that by the time I turned twenty, my identity would be set in stone. That didn’t happen.
For Asians And Latinos, Stereotypes Persist In Sitcoms
Haha Ben and I have definitely looked at each other and proclaimed, “That’s so racist.” In one episode, we had to replay a line of Han Lee’s several times before I realized he was saying “blog”. The problem is that we can interpret real accents relatively well, but not impersonations of those accents.
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