#AT 23.30

[the-converse-high-top]

Another Käärijä Research Project

aka: käärijä style-shifting project

as a preface, here are my (non) qualifications for this project and the circumstances under which it happened:

I am a linguistics student, and this past semester I took a course on sociolinguistics. the goal of this project was to become familiar with the concept of and analyze style-shifting (it's more commonly known as code-switching online but theres a difference and this is style-shifting), specifically by analyzing the speech of one person. We had the option to study oprah or to have someone else approved by my prof, so you know I had to ask my prof if I could study jere. This project is solely my intellectual property; even though I had a tutor help me a lot, everything written in this paper and on this post was my work alone.

now, on to the actual findings! the full paper and transcripts will be linked at the end :D

the actual variables (words or sounds) that I studied were the pronunciation of r, and use of the word "the".

to make things a lot easier from the get-go, i'm going to introduce you all to one of my favorite websites, ipachart.com (the international phonetic alphabet [ipa] chart is a big chart with an entry for every sound that exists in a language. this handy dandy website has an audio recording for each one of those sounds).

go to this website, and then scroll down to the table. go to the column labeled "post alveolar" and then click on ɾ and ɹ. those are the sounds i studied in this paper! ɾ is the finnish r and ɹ is the american r :)

so basically what i did to find instances of my variable was i just looked up a bunch of esc interviews and listened out for use of the different r sounds. i also transcribed the entire dinner date live because i love torture apparently :) the specific interviews and lives/stories are in the bibliography of the paper :p

after i transcribed all the interviews and lives/stories i went through and highlighted every instance of the r sound. then i calculated the ratios of ɾ to ɹ based on the context they were spoken in. the two contexts i looked for were formal contexts (sit-down interviews) and informal contexts (literally anything else).

i found that jere uses ɹ WAY more often in formal contexts than he does in informal contexts, and the same in reverse with ɾ.

i then went back to the transcripts and looked for all instances of the word "the". i also looked for instances where i thought it should be present, but was omitted. i calculated the ratio of present vs omitted "the"s in formal vs informal contexts and made some charts.

the graph with the smaller black section is "use of 'the' in formal settings" and the one with the smaller green section is "use of 'the' in informal settings" (the images are transparent, sorry)

i found that jere uses "the" WAY more often when in formal settings! there were also some instances where he added a "the" where it was unnecessary, which is studied at length in this wonderful paper by @alien-girl-21

something i also noticed that i elected not to study because this paper took enough energy on its own was that in formal contexts, whenever the "or" sound came in the middle or at the end of a word, jere wouldn't pronounce the r. it stuck out to me mostly because i heard words like "performance" turning into "perfomance", which i thought was an interesting quirk.

unfortunately i was somewhat limited by both my brainpower and capacity to do more work on this paper in the relatively short timeframe i was given (2 weeks) and the fact that i was given a 5 page MAX for this paper (not including a bibliography). i had a lot of fun doing this though and am definitely planning on studying jere for for academic credit again in the future if given the chance!

also i would like it to be known that i spent an hour searching for that 5 second clip of the urheilucast where jere said that he used to sell kitchens and understands english better than he can speak it.

link to a google drive folder with the actual paper i wrote and the transcripts of the interviews with notation:

please feel free to send me asks and dms with questions or comments about this paper! i absolutely love rambling about linguistics :3!!

[zoneofsmites]

Ok, here we have the actual Gort-guardian im going with. Inspired by these two posts that have been living in my head rent free for weeks btw.

hmmm but we're missing something... a little element of wrongness.

Ah, I got it - eyes are the window to the soul, aren't they?

and the guardian does not have a soul. And this is not the soul you are seeking.

[kalbinnefhasi]

Rezil olduğunuz bir anınız var mı?

[liljakonvalj]

Säga vad man vill om Alexander Bard men den som hade hand om estetiken för BWO gjorde allt rätt.

[fivefeetfangirl]

Oh no the sherlock brainworms are creeping back, they're infesting my brain

[pureheroine2013]

Soooooo sleepytired and having the worst headache ever can’t wait to be home

[skeltonjunction]

i love just liveblogging my life now. went to the christmas markets at 6pm to have a mug of mulled wine and read a book because christmas markets are evening things and therefore should be open. markets close at 6pm. who the fuck designed this. who goes to a christmas market to drink mulled wine and read a book in the daytime. awful planning

[omarfor-orchestra]

Io più vedo i video di andreverticchio più piango

[reorientingtothexdaylight]

Sun set

[maaneskin]

i remember being young (19) and going to bed at 2 in the morning but now i’m old (20) and can’t stay up past 23

[nottouchingmyself]

i caved. i used a toy, but i didn't finish, or even come close to finishing. i just wanted to see if i had gained any sensitivity back because this toy is quite weak compared to the body massager,

i have gained some sensitivity back, and i got wet from it, and i haven't gotten wet in so long!! I'm seeing progress and I'm so proud

i won't be orgasming for a while, but i think i might actually do little tests like these, maybe 15 seconds just to see how everything is doing down there

[turnipoddity]

a little spooky story,, from what I experienced with my college besties not too long ago.

we were having fun in some mall in jakarta, it was 23.30 pm, heavily raining, and the mall was closing. My friend drove a car, while me and my other friend just sat there with her lmao. The parking lot was dark already, and the mall was humongous—we kinda lost our way in the parking lot figuring out a way out. We found a strange path that CERTAINLY doesn’t lead to an exit, but it’s more darker and it has a couple cars still parked. strange thing about that path is that there’s like, a circus music? we didn’t know what it was but it specifically came from that pathway in the parking lot

[mashleverse]

Mashle: Magic and Muscles Second Season Episode 12 (Season Finale) Preview: “Mash Burnedead and His Good Friends”

The preview images for the next episode have been released! The twelfth and final episode of the second season (written as Episode 24 on the official website) will air on March 30, 2024, at 23.30 JST!

[pishebliade]

уже жесть как хочу увидеть расписание на неделю, но в прошлом году для второкурсников его выложили примерно в 23.30 31 августа. поэтому на этот раз его наверняка пришлют в это же время только 1 сентября, класс.

(ХОТЯ ДЛЯ ПОЛИТЕХНИЧЕСКОГО КОЛЛЕДЖА РАСПИСАНИЕ УЖЕ ЕСТЬ. ЧТО ЗА НЕЛЮБОВЬ К МЕДИЦИНСКОМУ)

[voylitscope]

CA: TWS 10th Anniversary Ficlets (Day 3)

Daily ficlets for the CA: TWS 10th Anniversary Event @catws-anniversary. With Huge thanks to @sparkagrace and @cable-knit-sweater for running this wonderful event! 💞

Three | March 28th | Theme: SHIELD | Prompt: Surprise Visitor | Words: 300 | Canon compliant | Not Rated | No Warnings | But: very brief Steve/OC (sort of), and, I guess, privacy invasion via audio recording? I don't know how to tag that. It's canon that Steve's DC apartment was bugged. So?

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[LOC: Rogers, S., MIC_001_24hr]

[01.12.14]

[Speaker 1: Rogers, S.

Speaker 2: Unidentified. Male.]

● [07:14] —Music—

● [11:27] — Crashing —

[11:27] Speaker 1: Dammit  

[11:42] — Slamming —

● [16:51] — Slamming —

[17:03] — Music —

● [21:18] — Knocking —

[21:19] Speaker 1: Hi

[21:19.31] [inaudible}

[21:20] Speaker 1: Yeah, you can — do you want to come in?

[21:21] Speaker 2: Thanks, yeah. 

[21:21.14] Speaker 1:  Sure, Here, let me — [inauduible] your coat.

[21:22] Speaker 2: Thanks. This is a great apartment, wow. 

[21:23] Speaker 1: Oh, uh, thanks. Yeah, it's — thank you. 

[21:23] Speaker 2: Yeah, so, did you wanna give me a tour?

[21:23.09] Speaker 1: Oh. Oh, Yes. Yeah. I can do that. Uh. Right this way?

[21:23.30] — laughter —

[21:24] [inaudible]

● [21:30] Speaker 1: [inaudible] — get you anything?

[21:31] Speaker 2: No, I'm cool. Unless you were planning to make drinks or something.

[21:31.41] Speaker 1: No, no. I'm good, too.

[21:32] Speaker 2: So, then.

[21:32.43] Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. 

[21:33] [inaudible]

● [21:45.09} Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry. Wait. [inadaubile.} Sorry — [inaudible] can't do this.

[21:46] Speaker 2: That's [inaudible] — you sure?

[21:47] [inaudible]

[21:48] Speaker 1: I'm sorry. 

[21:49] Speaker 2: [inaudible] — understand.

[21:50] [inaudible]

● [21:54] Speaker 1: Goodnight. 

[21:54.13] Speaker 2: Goodnight [inaudible] —if you change your mind?

[21:55] Speaker 1: [inaudible} — really am sorry.

[21:56] Speaker 2: Dn't be. But don't forget my number, either.

[21:56.38] Speaker 1:  [inaudible] — and I've got a great memory. 

[21:57] — laughter —

[21:58] Speaker 1: Goodnight

[21: 58.11] Speaker 2: Goodnight

[21:59] [inaudible]

[22:01] — Thudding —

● [22:04] — Music —

[22:05] Speaker 1: Dammit

🎆Two | March 27th | Theme: Steve Rogers | Prompt: Guilt | Words: 300 | Canon compliant | Not Rated | No Warnings

🎆 One | March 26th | Theme: On your left | Prompt: The Smithsonian | Words: 250 | Canon compliant | No warnings | Not Rated |

(Ficlets Tumblr-exclusive until all are complete.)

[kittybroker]

this is Tory, my cat. she likes climbing onto the windows and sleeping in the sun on the table

Tory the great sun sleeper rests peacefully on this warm day! This benevolent beast only $23.30!