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Seeing Stars at National Museum Cardiff
Back by popular demand, National Museum Cardiff will again be hosting a FREE fun-filled day of astronomical activities, talks and displays for all the family on Saturday 11 January, 10am-4pm as part of the popular BBC Stargazing Live events, which reveals stunning images from Earth's most powerful telescopes - and beyond - during three nights of extraordinary astronomical events.
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Christmas is the best time of the year but it can all get a bit too much. How long will it take to get Fed up of the festivities? Purse pinching? Kids whining? Feeling bloated? Bored of the TV? Stressed at the sales? Need to get away from it all? Look no further than Cardiff's national museums – National Museum Cardiff and St Fagans National History Museum where there is plenty of things for all the family to do over the festive period…and FOR FREE! (open on December 27, 28, 29, 31 & January 2, 3, 4, 5, 10am-5pm).
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The shortlist for the sixth Artes Mundi Prize was announced today (12 December 2013) by Karen MacKinnon, Artes Mundi's new Director & Curator. It includes outstanding artists from eight countries:Carlos Bunga (Portugal), Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (UK), Omer Fast (Israel), Theaster Gates (USA), Sanja Iveković (Croatia), Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland), Sharon Lockhart (USA), Renata Lucas (Brazil), Renzo Martens (The Netherlands).
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2 Bedroom, 1200 Sq Ft, Lakeview, Just A Few Steps To The Beach
Custom built Carriage house on 2.5 Acres over looking Okanagan Lake and just a few steps to the beach. The kitchen has a big granite island, granite sink and all stainless appliances. The kitchen is more than well equipped for all your cooking needs. Washer/dryer in laundry room. Beautiful 3 piece bath with large walk-in shower. Master bedroom has a pillow top king size bed. The living room has a large sectional, 42 inch flat screen T.V. and gas fireplace with big picture windows that look out onto the lake. The deck off the living room area has bamboo furniture and gas BBQ. There is also another deck off the master bedroom for morning coffee. There is also A/C, WiFi, cable, VCR and large video library.
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I am awakened by sunlight slipping through cheap curtains, in my cheap apartment, acutely aware one of my hands is still grasping my flaccid prick. Covered with dried semen, my stomach rises and falls to the rhythm of my breath, and through the haze of distorted memories of the previous night, I wonder why I still covet your love. That's not true. I know exactly why.
Yours was a love I took for granted. Yours was a love worth fighting for. Yours was a love I let slip away, and now, selfishly I wish I could be enveloped by it once more. I was frightened by your love, now I am frightened by the love I still have for you.
And it doesn't matter how I feel, for you have found happiness and I am grateful for that.
Am I ashamed to still love you? No. I am ashamed I didn't love you enough, back when I should have. But that is my cross to bear, and you should keep smiling.
Early morning thoughts…
I am awakened by sunlight slipping through cheap curtains, in my cheap apartment, acutely aware one of my hands is still grasping my flaccid prick. Covered with dried semen, my stomach rises and falls to the rhythm of my breath, and through the haze of distorted memories of the previous night, I wonder why I still covet your love. That's not true. I know exactly why.
Let's show them…
another night spent chasing
the white rabbit
and who even knows if the fucker is going to
come out and play
I've got the key to the doors
but who can tell me where she moved that
take it from me, man
what happened to all the love?
shellac spinning myself grinning
and all I really wanted was some
threes would be fine
those darn squirrels
scratching at my window
just another trip
before acknowledging my loneliness
and while I might be alone
don't take this as a cry for help
it'll all be okay in the morning
Voicemail and all that…
grey skies, snow drifting slowly to the ground
not quite enough to blanket the earth
but enough to remind you of winter's
I just wanted to dance in the sunlight,
ten years after
and no one remembers my name
these restless limbs clamoring for a little
attention deficit,
speak not till after the record stops
primal urges, love like a man
I hope you're satisfied
just wanted to spend one more day in your
imagined or not, it sure beats going it
wait, that still leaves this hole
keeps me in closer to myself
I'm going home
I'm going to take a nap…
and he just walked in, sat down, started drinking, sir
hiding again, behind words turned upside
downward a spiral staircase leads to bleeding walls
a heart beats, defeat in this instance bleating sheep the
tell me, whose really keeping score? forewarning aside
sliding down tear streaked cheeks, and you thought
me hollow, standing still shadows overtaken by
the night, light down the end of that tunnel
jungle drums, screeching beasts,
another menagerie to hideout behind below beside
blame these habits all you want
what is it you truly want?
and just like that, the thought subsides and alive she cries
overshadowed by the garbage truck driving
on by, you want a ride?
whatever happened to the teenage dream, indeed.
What else were you expecting…
lets see if we can avoid repeating
ourselves this time
shall we?
nonstop thoughts can be conquered by
a tranquil mind
your p's and q's a little better
you are a grown up now
after all
analog radio squeaking obscenities
piss poor notions of grandeur overshadow
the fact I have a noose around my
neck while I stroke my
just looking for that ultimate high
wrong way, better turn around hear now
My smile for you…
well that's certainly surprising
wasn't expecting you to just
rush up like that. hello,
either way
and let me just say it's always a
pleasure to make your
tonight's feature course includes the already
sounding festivities of
those lovable Californian boys,
singing… no more than that
the whole package is quite the experience
if you'd only just trust me and
take my hand already.
once more, it always seems to come back
like a repeat,
these repeat viewings are being cued up
out back, remember those rolling hills of
to the destination, and like tonight
what destination is that exactly?
exactly, as a matter of fact
levee is broke.
fix it, quick just give me a moment so I can
flip my wig.
shouldn't have stopped to review, apologies
are weak under the circumstances just
one, so far.
so far, not quite gone, still here
we are now entertain us.
stolen symmetries, the tendency to
react now
look at how bright you might between
these sheets no more weather
broken lingo and I told you so, or
rather not. which of us is taking the lead here?
one more half. just swallow hard and enjoy.
like a gremlin. what a thought. to wit,
you knew me once.
how about that? what's with these spaces, are they places
for hidden weight undertow, taking you all
down with me
explicitly, this distinct feeling overtaking the position
lets switch places shall we?
there now. another pawn falls
we advance.
and sometimes I just have to stop. stop. stop.
my god.
the music,
and I just wish you were here, too.
are you sleeping, brother john?
oh right. this is a race. I almost forgot about the
starting gun.
where did the hare go? such questions better left for
better men to answer. surfs up, m'boyo.
join me in the sun.
wow, man. can't you feel that?
of course you can.
we are one.
that brief reprieve to the bathroom was
quite the experience. there we go.
hammers. knew we were missing something.
oh, right. stop for a second here.
vegetables. there isn't really much point to
keep going, otherwise. har har.
seems legitimately hilarious. maybe not to you.
we're almost here though. that's what we
were doing here anyways. that's absurd.
right. there we aren't.
time to say good night. sleep well all you
beautiful dreamers.
Ask the radio…
just one more addiction to
bid adieu
who knew these guns
went pew-pew
sink sank sunk
junk threw up
white knuckled and
so I sit smoking a cigarette
feeling rather shit about the whole
what's with this strange fascination
a demonstration of frustration
best intentions left
naked and alone just another
monday night spent at home
scribbling verses maybe worthless but
something I call my own.
and if my phone rang could I answer
do you care?
the best laid plans and you're still unaware
of this feeling I wish to share.
just more words perhaps a symbol of truth
hidden where.
In a minute…
it's a fine line between
wine and
dining in
any indication made might hold
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Jessye Norman: In Conversation with Tom Hall
Date: 12/05/14
Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Come hear Jessye Norman, one of America's most accomplished and beloved opera singers, discuss her new book Stand Up Straight and Sing! This Grammy Award-winning international opera star will offer perspectives on her life—from growing up in the South to performing on the world's greatest stages in conversation with Tom Hall, music director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Tickets $25 (includes one book).
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You won't want to miss this special holiday program performed on the
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- 2 cups white vinegar
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Scald a 4 gallon crock. Line bottom with grape leaves then add half the dill and 1/2 the pickling spice and fill with washed cukes (remove blossom end) to within 3" of top then add the rest of the dill and spice and cover with grape leaves. Make a brine of the salt, vinegar and water. Bring to boil and allow to cool. Pour cooled brine over cukes. Cover/weigh down with a plate and clean rock or canning jar filled with water and sealed to hold contents below brine. Remove scum daily. Keep at around 70-80 degrees. Fermentation should be complete in 10-14 days. When pickles are cured make a fresh brine, bring to boil and cool. Pack cukes into sterilized jars, pour brine over and seal. Store in fridge. (If the cukes are fully cured you could also use hot brine and BWB 15 minutes).
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"After having performed amazing gigs with them during the last months, we are very proud to welcome Pierre Arnoux (bass/backing vocals) and Emmanuel Dalle (guitars) as official and permanent members in Benighted!", comments the band. "With our line-up finally stable again, we are currently working on our first live album. It was recorded at Sylak Open Air this summer and will be released via Season of Mist in 2015. Prepare yourself for war!!"
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45101383050791993062014-11-24T15:58:34.398-05:00The Cranky LinguistObservations, thoughts, reminiscences, and occasional rants on anthropology, linguistics, old-time banjo, and anything else that crosses my path...Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-81497167443033941672014-11-22T10:17:00.001-05:002014-11-22T10:17:34.010-05:00November 22, 1963Today is the day in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

I was in my first year at St. Johns College, Annapolis, Maryland. I was about to go for a run before my Dad picked me up to drive home for Thanksgiving. As I was leaving the dorm someone yelled out that the President had been shot, and we spent some time listening to a radio. The run was scuttled.

On the drive home Dad and I listened to the radio in the car. As I recall (it's been a while) he didn't say anything. He had always been a Republican, and later became a fan of Rush Limbaugh etc. I am not sure how he felt about what happened to Kennedy.Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-31823369922389101242014-10-25T14:28:00.000-04:002014-10-28T14:25:41.659-04:00How's your "grammar?"I took this "grammar quiz" yesterday, more curious about what sorts of questions they would ask than whatever my "score" might be. As it turned out, I got them all "right."

(1) Of the 12, only 3 were really about "grammar." And one of those asked for a form (whom) that is essentially obsolete, what one writer calls "nostalgia as repression." Another asked for the past tense of "lie" (as in "lie down"); which is "lay" but that's also somewhat archaic at this point. The one legitimate grammar question had to do with subject/verb agreement (is v. are).

(2) Perhaps one (lose v. loose) was about lexicon, although this spills over into...

(3) ... spelling, which is what the rest were about, and which is not "grammar." One of the more egregious examples of this is the distinction in spelling between the two forms pronounced [ɪts], written its and it's. The first is possessive, 'belonging to it'; the second is the contraction of it and is. This is not a confusion that anyone would or could make in speaking, because they're homophones! It's only in spelling that they get separate treatment, and this is not where the grammar is. Another frequently cited "confusion" is that of there - they're - their. No English speaker would actually "confuse" these while using English, because they're different things: an adverb, a subject-verb contraction, and a possessive determiner. They might confuse the spellings, but not the grammatical functions.

It would be nice if the people who make up these things would actually learn what "grammar" is. A linguistics course might help...Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-89768337555661898642014-09-26T08:23:00.000-04:002014-09-26T08:23:55.317-04:00I never expected this...This happened yesterday: I had finished the lecture part of my large intro class and was starting to tell them about their Test, which would be online through the weekend. Things like what topics to expect, the window the test would be available, how much time they have once they launch the test, and so on... And as I was doing so, about a third of the class got up, gathered their stuff, and headed for the door. While I was talking. This is the first I recall something like this happening, believe it or not, in about 30 years of teaching. I have until next Tuesday to prepare a way to shame them into never doing this again, although I suspect, given that this is the United States of America, it would be pointless.Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-2968669693338403042014-09-11T12:01:00.004-04:002014-09-11T12:01:54.829-04:00Remembering 9/11?In my opinion, the best way to remember 9/11 would be to issue arrest warrants for George W Bush and all the members of his admin who either failed to protect us from what happened, even though they had intel that it might, and/or who lied the country into the ongoing wars that followed and in the process killed more Americans than the actual 9/11 terrorists did. That is all.Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-29123093572620059482014-08-27T12:37:00.000-04:002014-08-27T12:37:52.444-04:00Tim White on "theory" versus "fact"This is epic:

Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-90332813878128090522014-08-06T10:21:00.000-04:002014-08-06T10:21:21.708-04:00It's August 6th, againI have some pressing things to attend to today and I'll have to forego my usual rant about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, you can read my previous posts on this:

2009: An almost unmentioned anniversary
2010: The most destructive use ever of weapons of mass destruction
2011: Another August 6th
2012: Yet another August 6th
2013: August 6, 1945

This year I'll let Noam Chomsky guide us through the Nuclear Weapons Era.

Spoiler alert: It's not pretty.Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-43122990283848838032014-07-24T14:39:00.001-04:002014-07-24T14:39:56.320-04:00George Takei on The Daily ShowLast night on The Daily Show, George Takei talked very movingly with Jon Stewart about his childhood experience as a detainee in a US concentration camp detention facility.

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Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-76019475669125978542014-07-22T11:21:00.000-04:002014-07-22T11:21:00.467-04:00The word is: "Jeopardy"Last night (Monday July 21) on "Jeopardy" there was a clue that went something like "a single unit of language." The response they wanted was "what is a word." That may be the most problematic answer they could have thought of, given that besides words all the following can be considered "single units of language":

Distinctive features (units of articulation, e.g. Labial, Voiced, etc.)

Segments (consonants & vowels, each of which is a unit composed of distinctive features: [b])

Phonemes (psychologically salient units that signal contrast: /b/)

Syllables (units of pronunciation, most commonly a consonant + a vowel but there are shapes, depending on the language: [ba], [bo], [bla], blab], and so on)

Morphemes (units that refer in some way: {kæt})

When we get to morphemes we can begin to slide into "words," but it's tricky. The "word" <cat> (we use the <_> to enclose an orthographic representation) is composed of one morpheme, but what about <cats>? It's composed of two morphemes. Still, it's a "single unit" when considered within a larger structure, say a Noun Phrase (NP). In <the cats=""> the word <cats> is a single unit under what we call an N' ("N-bar"), a constituent paired with <the>, which is a Determiner (Det). If we expand to <the cats="" nervous=""> we get <nervous cats=""> also living under a single N', still paired with that Det and still a "single unit" of language.</nervous></the></the></cats></the></cats></_></cat>

In other words, it's more complicated than most people realize. And, I humbly submit, *this* is what "language arts" teachers should be showing our children!

Aruskipasipxañanakasakipunirakispäwa! A "single word" in Aymara meaning 'I know from personal knowledge that it's good if we all make the effort to communicate with one another.'Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-1825349615029697982014-07-19T13:43:00.001-04:002014-07-19T16:14:47.268-04:00"Nostalgia as repression"Weird Al Yankovic has a new song out called "Word Crimes." It's quite catchy and fun to listen to. It includes many complaints and grievances regarding the use of language similar to those that pop up with depressing frequency on Facebook, compiled by self-styled "grammar" experts and forwarded by people whose knowledge of the science of language is limited to what they may have learned over the years from so-called "language arts" teachers.

As with the typical Facebook "grammar" post, these complaints constitute a very mixed bag. Many, if not most, are not really (from a linguist's perspective) about "grammar" at all, but rather about ancillary issues: spelling, punctuation, and so on. For example, the difference between it's (the contraction of it is) and its (the possessive determiner) is strictly a spelling issue. There is no doubt that English speakers know the difference, that is they have separate lexical entries for these homophones in their mental dictionaries. And there's no doubt that when English speakers say it's a shame they know they are producing a contraction of it is a shame; when they say its handle broke they are referring to something's handle, maybe a cup: the cup's handle broke.

Other sets of homophones can be dealt with similarly: there their they're; too two; four for fore; and so on.

One of the "crimes" Weird Al mentions: the confusion of, who and whom. This is a bit different. The distinction here reflects a time when English was a more highly inflected language, with word endings signaling the case of a noun or pronoun. The English noun boat had forms that included bāt for singular subject and object; bātas for plural subject and object; bātes and bāta for singular and plural possessives respectively; and bāte and bātum for singular and plural use with prepositions.

Like 'boat,' once upon a time the English interrogative/relative pronoun who (earlier hwā) had different forms for different cases. Three of these have survived: who (the subject form); whom (the object form), and whose (the possessive form).

And, as with the forms of boat, a leveling process has been going on over the centuries. We now have only three forms for boat: boat, boats, and boat's. The last two are now homophones, so phonologically there's just /bot/ and /bots/. Somehow, though, English speakers know when they mean 'more than one boat' versus 'belonging to a boat'.

As for the forms of who, there's been a leveling process going on here as well. Who saw you? still works, of course, but Whom did you see? is now almost always Who did you see? This is one of those things that makes the grammar nazis cry, but it's perfectly normal. Languages change. And English has changed quite a bit, as anyone who tries to read this sentence will realize:

Fæder ure ϸu ϸe ært on heofonum, si ϸin nama gehalgod.
Insisting that people keep using whom even though, in normal English, it has nearly disappeared, is not unlike trying to make people go back to using fæder for father. Kind of silly.

In a book titled On Literacy, Pattison (page 162)* noted that trying to force people to use forms of language that have fallen or are falling out of usage constitutes "nostalgia as repression." This is an apt term for this form of what amounts to abuse on the part of people who profess to be language experts, but who in fact are sadly undereducated in that area.

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*Pattison, Robert. 1984. On Literacy: The Politics of the Word from Homer to the Age of Rock. Oxford University Press.

Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-42405554725729591012014-07-16T11:04:00.001-04:002014-07-16T11:05:17.774-04:00Jon Stewart on the child "border crisis"Jon Stewart on the child "border crisis":

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Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-59400247231166398962014-07-12T17:02:00.000-04:002014-07-13T17:13:53.095-04:00Those ivory tower perfessersIn the midst of a discussion over on Facebook, regarding the value and purpose of education, some commenters expressed views suggesting that they believe that the purpose of education is preparation for a job or jobs. There was also, the usual American folk notion of higher education being dominated by "liberals" who spend their class time "indoctrinating" students into particular "ideologies," mostly of course leftist (rightwing or conservative views are not, of course, "ideologies"). A number of misconceptions about the nature, purpose, and content of higher education emerged, and I promised to take it seriously and attempt to address some of the issues raised. Only the gods know why...

So to begin with, here are a couple of his statements, for context (my emphasis; original spelling retained):

There are way to many kids that are wasting their time and money on college courses that will never provide them a living but rather only serve to anchor them with debt and destructive ideologies.

The skilled trades offer a good living to people. For the most part a young person can earn money while learning useful skills in the trades and they don't have to spend the rest of their lives paying interest on tuition.
There's obviously a confusion here of education and training. This is not surprising. In fact, it's being encouraged all over the country (perhaps the world), in that universities, which are supposed to be about education, feel more and more pressure under a business-model regime of evaluation that emphasizes preparation for jobs at the expense of education for life as a citizen, something that should properly be the realm of training colleges and other such programs.

We see it also in the false dichotomy of "humanities" versus the so-called "STEM" disciplines: science, technology, engineering, mathematics. These latter, supposedly, prepare people for actual work, but what can an English or Philosophy major do? "Jobs" are what it's all about in a world increasingly subjugated to the ruthless regime of predatory capitalism. But I digress...

There was also plenty of name-calling intended to put me down: "ivory tower perfesser," "liberal," "socialist," even "douchebag." Setting aside the last, it became clear that these folks were expressing a pretty wide-ranging suspicion of, and disdain for (one might say hatred of) higher education in the US. They seemed to think that calling someone out as a "professor" or "liberal" was shaming, and I suppose given the nature of US culture I can't blame them for thinking that. We've long been a sort of "know-nothing" society. If ignorance is bliss, America must be in a near-permanent state of ecstasy.

Anyway, there was one question that I thought I might take seriously and try to respond to (again, my emphasis):

Being educated is an excellent choice for many people but it shouldn't have to come with their professor's favorite ideology, right or left. Unless it's a political science class, philosophy or something similar what is the purpose of mixing political doctrine with pertinent course work?
One issue here has to do with the "pertinence" of knowledge about human political behavior. As an anthropologist, when I teach a course that covers human culture, I am compelled to teach about as many aspects of culture as I can fit into a semester: subsistence patterns, kinship and descent, marriage and family, economics, religion; the usual list of things we do in any introductory course. And of course, politics. For anthropologists, this is the part of our culture that encompasses the production, distribution, and consumption of power, both within and between social groups. When I teach, I explore some of the cultural adaptations that humans have made to these ends: how we have organized ourselves into various kinds of groups; the degree to which power is spread among the members of these groups, from being relatively egalitarian to highly stratified; how we invest power in leaders within these groups; how power is exercised between groups (war, etc.); and so on.

In addition, politics is really not separable from other aspects of culture. We know that there are patterns that emerge between politically small-scale societies and the ways they produce their food, the kinds of leaders they have, the kinds of economic behaviors they exhibit, even the forms of religion they tend to practice. Anthropologists see all this holistically, as an integrated web created by humans to help us survive. So, because politics is so important to our ways of being, it is highly "pertinent" to our understanding of overall human culture.

But here's the rub. In our culture (as in some others, I believe) many people see teaching about something as equivalent to "indoctrination" in that something. I'll give two examples from my own teaching.

First example: I teach about human evolution. I make it very clear that in my biological anthropology course, I do not take seriously "creationism" or "intelligent design" or any other religion based explanations for humanity. I try to make it clear, also, that if there are any students in the class who think God created the World in 4004 BC, they are free to do so. However, and this is the point: they are not free to expect that I will count their answer correct on a test asking for the age of the Earth. They have to learn the material to pass the course. After that, they can keep believing whatever they want. Obviously, I'd prefer to discover that I had influenced their thinking, but that can't always happen, nor perhaps should it.

Second example: I teach about religion. I am, personally, an atheist, and I don't mind them knowing that. I also - and I do everything I can to let them know this - believe that religion can be a marvelous, sometimes even awe-inspiring and beautiful, manifestation of human creativity. I talk about the various forms of religions humans have created. I use the term cult for all religious systems (individualistic, shamanistic, communal, ecclesiastic- as one way of thinking about them) in an effort to minimize their ethnocentrism, the idea that one religion or another might be the "real" or "right" one. Frequently I give them a case study lecture on Haitian Vodoun, a great example of a syncretic religion that ties together West African and European religious ideas as well as bringing together other issues such as imperialism, slavery, and so on. As with evolution, I might ask them to know a few things about Vodoun, such as which spirit is associated with the Catholic Virgin Mary (Ezili) or who is the Guardian of the Crossroads (Baron Samdi).

And here's what happens sometimes: students confuse learning about something with being forced to believe something. I actually once had a student complain on their evaluation of me that I was trying to "convert them to Voodoo." Similar things have happened in reaction to my lectures on politics. I show them other political systems, and I try to give them the all-too-rare objective understanding of our system here at home. I try to debunk the pervasive mythologies that surround terms like "capitalism" and "socialism" and "communism," and I try to talk honestly about these things. As with evolution and religion, I make it clear that I am not trying to "convert" them to anything except critical thinking and understanding.

Which, I fervently hope, might make them better citizens, whatever "jobs" they end up doing.
Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-22023385507633485882014-07-04T13:59:00.002-04:002014-07-04T14:00:46.244-04:00Yet another 4th of July...Last year, on July 4, I wrote:

I've said it before and I'll repeat it here: The "American Revolution" was not a revolution. In a revolution, the people on the bottom end up on top. What happened in the British colonies that eventually became the United States was a beheading. The level of rulers at the very top, the British Crown, was lopped off. The people at the top in the colonies remained on top, while slaves remained slaves, women remained women, Native Americans remained pretty much nobody.

 This came at the end of my tally of mostly complaints and grievances regarding the state current state of the US, some of which is still relevant: use of killer drones overseas; Guantanamo; ongoing Rethuglican obstruction of any and every thing the President tries to accomplish; and so on. One of the things that stood out last year was the Supreme Court's disemboweling of the Voting Rights Act.

And now, a year later, the Supremes have been at it again. They have decided that a corporation like Hobby Lobby can decide which health care benefits to give their female employees under the Affordable Care Act, based on their "sincerely held religious beliefs."

I'm not buying it (I'm also never going into Hobby Lobby). Religious beliefs, no matter how "sincerely" held, should not in my opinion exempt anyone from the laws and regulations of the land. You should not be allowed to bring your imaginary friends into court.

Happy Fourth!Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-756333322392884052014-06-30T17:18:00.000-04:002014-06-30T17:18:15.440-04:00The Hobby Lobby malfunctionHere's the thing: No matter how "sincerely" you believe in them, your imaginary friends should have absolutely no say in how you treat your employees. Period.Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-64096720512253823792014-06-28T14:45:00.002-04:002014-06-28T14:45:43.124-04:00Consequences of dysfunctional enculturationThis happened a day or so ago, in New Jersey. A woman was brutally beaten in public by a MacDonald's coworker, her 2-year old son tries to stop it, and the adults stand around taking video. Welcome to America.

And then, on CNN's New Day (Saturday) the hosts interviewed a "licensed psychologist" about this, and he actually came scarily close to explaining it, but without the anthropological insight (shouldn't psychologists, almost by definition, have to know some anthropology?). Anyway, the CNN guys asked how this could happen, and the psychologist pointed out that the adults had been socialized (we would say enculturated) into being witnesses, bystanders, not participants; the 2-year old, on the other hand, was not "socialized" and thus didn't know he was supposed to just watch or try to film it.

If only this psychologist had known about psychological anthropologist Francis Hsu, who wrote about a thing called Independence Training way back in the 50s. Independence Training, in the extreme form we see in America, turns us into unempathetic, socially irresponsible psychopaths: she's not beating me, what's the problem? I'll be writing an email as soon as I get his name...Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-9268486755374668012014-06-13T08:17:00.000-04:002014-06-13T08:17:47.728-04:00Culturally-induced psychosisPresident Obama held a Q&A session Tumblr yesterday (June 10). At some point questions about the seemingly never-ending series of school and other shootings we have been experiencing - about one a week - came up.

As reported on WUSA, the President responded with the following:

"We're the only developed country on Earth where this happens.... And it happens now once a week. And it's a one-day story. There's no place else like this."
Casting about for ways to understand the problem, President Obama said:

"the United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people."
Right. We are not the only nation with crazy people mixed into the population. We are however, to a large extent, the only (or at least one of very few) nations that actively socializes and enculturates our people into craziness. Or rather, into the kind of behavior that can all too easily slide into what we are seeing now, something I am calling culturally-induced psychosis.

All human cultures need to produce people who are both autonomous, independent agents and also willing to participate in networks of obligations and rights that tie them to others in the culture. So, there must be independence training (IT), which turns out individuals, and dependence training (DT), which creates group members. One of the important ways that cultures vary is in the degree of emphasis they place on these two let's call them modes of enculturation. As anthropologist Francis Hsu noted back in the 1950s, one major difference between traditional Chinese culture and traditional US culture was precisely this emphasis: China emphasized DT; the US emphasized IT.

Let's be clear that both IT and DT are required for a culture to run smoothly. Too much emphasis on DT and you might get a society of people unwilling or unable to take risks, unable to make decisions for themselves, and so on. But too much emphasis on IT and you might get, well... the USA.

Put briefly, too much IT gets you people who are unwilling to acknowledge the reciprocal rights and responsibilities that bind members of a healthy society together. And with that, you get people who are capable of carrying the extreme social irresponsibility of murder.

Anthropologist Walter Goldschmidt, in the 60s, wrote that we can judge a culture without being ethnocentric. We can base our judgement on how good a job the culture does of satisfying the physical and psychological needs of its adherents. One of Goldschmidt's criteria had to do with whether or not the culture discouraged crime and violence. On this and other criteria, our culture is failing.Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-72485656009101732542014-06-07T17:31:00.002-04:002014-06-08T09:52:22.798-04:00My problem with Maya Angelou (and Jesse Jackson, and...)This post is prompted by Maya Angelou's passing a few days ago. I was privileged to see her perform at UNF some years back, and of course she was very, very good at what she did. What she was not good at is being a linguist. And she's not alone.

When the Oakland School Board tried to declare African American Vernacular English (AAVE, or Ebonics) a language separate from English back in 1996, a shitstorm ensued, as everyone in the country (it seemed) came down on them. The school board made two fatal errors:

(1) They used the term "genetic" in trying to trace the West African roots that help make AAVE different from English. This was a mistake, because people were able to take a descriptive term out of context and accuse the school board of claiming that there were "genes for" AAVE, or something like that, which is of course biologically false.

(2) In attempting to claim the status of "language" for AAVE, they broke a rule established by Max Weinreich back in the 1940s: "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." Nearly all linguists know that there is no qualitative difference between a "language" and a "dialect" and that, indeed, everyone speaks a dialect. Languages are social constructions of convenience that encompass in some cases widely divergent dialects; dialects, the stuff on the ground, are what is real.
So... by making these errors, they left themselves open to all sorts of ridicule. We can ignore the ridicule coming from the Cracker class, at least for now. But the ridicule also came from people who one wishes had known better, and the result was yet more evidence that we need linguistics and anthropology taught to everybody, in the public schools:

Maya Angelou:

The very idea that African American language is a language separate and apart is very threatening, because it can encourage young men and women not to learn standard English.

Jesse Jackson:

I understand the attempt to reach out to these children, but this is an unacceptable surrender borderlining on disgrace. . . . It's teaching down to our children and it must never happen.

And, perhaps most disturbing...

 You don't have to go to school to learn to talk garbage.

No, Maya, what encourages students "not to learn standard English" is just the opposite: pretending that there's no linguistic difference, that AAVE consists of nothing but mistakes and deviations from the standard, is what fools students into imagining that they already know the standard.

And no, Jesse, making students aware of the systemic linguistic differences between AAVE and standard is not "teaching down" to them; it is respecting their intelligence and ability to live up to what ought to be our expectations for them.

And of course, Jesse, AAVE is not "garbage." Decades of research by far too many language scholars to list here has shown that if AAVE is "garbage," then so is English and every other language on the planet. And that was a pretty despicable claim for one who claims to be a civil rights leader.

The reality is, we need people with real knowledge about languages and culture (i.e. linguists and anthropologists) in leadership roles in this country. Instead, we get people who are illiterate in these areas, people who are only capable of vomiting up what amount to racist claims. Yes, racist.

By the way, there were even Senate hearings on this. If you ever want to be driven to poke your eyeballs and eardrums out with toothpicks, watch US Senators try to ask questions of linguists.
  Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-17997227511185629762014-05-23T15:21:00.003-04:002014-05-23T15:21:37.491-04:00This does not help...Oh man, somebody please make it stop! This afternoon on NPR, in his into to Science Friday, host Ira Flatow began (and I'm working from memory) by talking about how hard physics is, and how theories often remain just that- theories- for a long time until they can be proven. I almost ran my car into a ditch. Like I say, I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist.

This is not a good way to promote public understanding of science; email to Ira Flatow in the works...Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-4248138693783128852014-05-19T12:30:00.001-04:002014-06-30T17:29:22.846-04:00Tarpon are "maniche"So last night I was watching an episode of "River Monsters." In this episode host Jeremy Wade was fishing for tarpon on Nicaragua's Miskito coast. One of the locals told him tarpon are "mannish"; the show's editing team were apparently unaware of the English provenience of the term, and in the subtitles they spelled it "maniche," maybe thinking it came from French or somewhere. I'm guessing they were thrown off by the pronunciation: [ˈmaniš] rather than [ˈmænɪš].

Also, this reminds me of an episode in which Andrew Zimmern of "Bizarre Foods" was visiting the same area. He could not get the pronunciation of "oil-down" (a stew) correct: [ɔylˈdɔŋ].
Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-7944278199708325392014-04-29T18:17:00.001-04:002014-04-29T18:18:30.818-04:00"Critical thinking?"Tomorrow I'm scheduled to participate in a workshop dealing with my university's general education requirements. Specifically, we'll be discussing and presumably deciding somehow on how to teach and assess the learning of "critical thinking" in the "social sciences." I am not looking forward to it, and the temptation is strong to go fishing...

I am not looking forward to it for several reasons, but the ones I want to mention here, if only to help gather my thoughts for tomorrow, are:

It pisses me off that we need to distinguish "critical thinking" in the social sciences from such thinking in the the "arts and humanities."

It also pisses me off that there is an implicit, covert suggestion in the division of labor for this exercise that the "scientific method" can only be carried out quantitatively in the "natural sciences."

First of all, the scientific method is not limited to quantitative research; see my post about this on this blog. Secondly, the division between "natural" and "social" science is bogus, a relic of the time when humans were thought to be separate from nature. Science is science. Period.

For me as a linguist/anthropologist, "critical thinking" is best exemplified by the development of what I (following former mentor Robert Lawless) call cynical knowledge. Cynical knowledge is the awareness, developed through critical inquiry, that beliefs and values that we take to be "natural" are in fact not only not natural, but are kept in place to support particular structures of power and authority. Two examples might illustrate this.

"Double negatives make a positive." We hear this from our language arts and composition teachers almost from the time we enter school, so much so that we internalize it and defend it, sometimes vigorously. And here's the thing: it's flat-out wrong. There are languages as diverse as French, Spanish, Russian, and even Aymara that make use of multiple negative marking (negative agreement in linguistic parlance). Even Anglo-Saxon, the precursor of modern English, used negative agreement. The "rule" against "double negatives" was introduced by Anglican Bishop Robert Lowth in 1762; he based it on a false analogy with mathematics. "Double negatives" are as natural to human languages as nouns and verbs. The cynical knowledge rests in the realization that this "rule" was fabricated to give English teachers another tool for terrorizing- I mean, assessing- schoolchildren. It has no standing in the natural world.

"Stop breast-feeding your baby as early as possible." This is a somewhat easier one. We are mammals. Mammal mothers feed their young milk until they don't need it anymore, i.e. until they can begin to process more adult foods. And, once they're adults, most mammals normally lose the ability to digest lactose. Cynical knowledge informs us that the main reason for our focus on early weaning is so that the people who produce infant formula can make money. In other words, this is a cultural value that functions to support capitalism. It has nothing to do with improving the health of mothers or their babies, and indeed the research suggests that breast feeding is far more healthy for both than formula feeding.

So, these are thoughts I'm carrying into this meeting tomorrow, if I go.Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-91125109122801916042014-03-14T12:20:00.000-04:002014-03-14T12:56:19.319-04:00ОМГ!The Atlantic has an online article about Russian nutball Vladimir Zhirinovsky wanting to get rid of "the letter ы" because it sounds "nasty" and "only animals make this sound." Zhirinovsky is reported to have said that the "primitive, Asiatic sound is the reason people don't like us in Europe."

The sound in question, represented by the letter ы in the Cyrillic alphabet, is a high mid/back unrounded vowel, [ɨ] or possibly [ɯ] in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Zhirinovsky is correct that this sound occurs in any number of Asian languages, including Korean and Japanese; it also occurs in some Native American languages, such as Aymara (Bolivia/Perú), Yanomama (Brazil/Venezuela), and Garifuna (Central America). He's probably not correct that animals can make it, since it involves raising the back of the tongue toward the soft palate in a way that it is pretty unique to humans.

The problem with getting rid of "the letter ы" is that this letter represents a phoneme in Russian that is distinct from the phoneme represented by the letter и, which is a high front unrounded vowel. The two sounds in question belong to separate phonemes in Russian because they can be found in minimal pairs, the first of which Zhirinovsky himself offers:

мишка /miška/ 'bear' мышка /mɨška/ 'mouse'
бить /bit'/ 'to beat' быть /bɨt'/ 'to be'

Because these two vowels are contrastive, asking Russians to ditch one of them would be like asking English speakers to stop using the vowel [ɪ] (as in bit) and just use the vowel [i] (as in beat) in its place. This is the sort of thing that can happen over generations of natural language change, but it's simply not the sort of thing you can do by command from on high. Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-70785117321891744882014-03-02T15:01:00.003-05:002014-03-02T15:01:42.308-05:00Students, argh!Time for a rant. On our take-home, open-book midterm in linguistics, one question was: "Which statement best captures the relationship between language and dialect?" Of those who answered (n=32), just 9 chose the correct "groups who have power speak languages; groups without power speak dialects." Of the 23 who gave an incorrect answer one chose "less-educated people speak dialects; educated people speak languages." The rest (22) all answered "dialects are simple forms of languages."

Sigh... How is it possible to spend half a semester with me and not get this most basic thing right? Anyway, coming soon if I have time, an analysis by academic major...Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-311374856345879822014-02-28T11:48:00.002-05:002014-02-28T11:58:28.283-05:00Say what?So, just awhile ago on The Diane Rehm Show some numbnut was claiming that Arizona's "religious freedom" law was good because it would have allowed businesses to refuse service to skinheads and white supremacists and such. Right. Like being gay or Black or Hispanic is exactly like being a klansperson or Nazi. Are we really this bad at teaching critical thinking skills?Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-72952565231848209552014-02-08T10:29:00.000-05:002014-02-08T10:29:49.990-05:00Stewart on the Coca-cola Superbowl adThe Daily Show's Jon Stewart tackles the brouhaha over Coca-cola's multilingual Superbowl ad.

<embed allowfullscreen="true" allownetworking="all" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#000000" flashvars="autoPlay=false" height="247" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:432904" style="display: block;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="288" wmode="window"></embed>Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-1249637918351897012014-02-06T08:51:00.000-05:002014-02-06T08:51:37.505-05:00Post-debate analysis: Bill Nye on The Last WordLawrence O'Donnell discusses the Nye-Ham debate with Bill Nye on "The Last Word":

Ronald Kepharthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4510138305079199306.post-74335038458985120442014-02-05T19:53:00.000-05:002014-02-05T19:53:53.219-05:00Ken Ham was there, but Bill Nye brought home the baconThe "debate" last night between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis ended with a sigh of relief from many of us who worried that Ham's skill at lying about the nature of science and tossing out incoherent and unanswerable bits of nonsense like broken bottles onto a road would trip up Nye.

No such thing happened. Nye was relatively cool and collected, and in command of a nice array of facts, while Ham spent most of his time asserting that creationism is true because The Bible. Whenever Nye asked him to provide some evidence for the assertion that the Earth is only about 6,000 years old, Ham simply repeated: The Bible. Evidence for just one all-encompassing catastrophic flood: The Bible. And so on. He was unable to respond at all to Nye pointing out several times that "The Bible" which Ham depends on is a translation into "American English" of a very old book that was originally written in several different languages.

 One of Ham's themes, from the beginning, was to draw a bizarre distinction between what he called "observational" science, the kind he trusts, and "historical" or "origins" science, which he does not. Observational science is OK because it deals with the here and now, and we are witnesses; historical science is invalid, because we cannot witness the things we are talking about. And, The Bible. This strange paradigm was overthrown in the 19th century by Charles Lyell, a contemporary of Darwin, who showed that the understanding of current processes can be used to reconstruct the past history of the earth, based on the not unreasonable hypothesis that the same gradual processes of erosion and uplift that change the earth's surface today had also been at work in the past. How could Ham miss this? And again, what evidence does he hand over that this is not the case? None. So when Ham asserts that "we cannot observe the age of the Earth," he is wrong. We can bring material into lab, date it in a variety of ways. We can observe the age of the earth in the observations we make during the dating process. Ham is just plain wrong, but, you know, the Bible.Ronald Kepharthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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