#Top Billin

[cartermagazine]

“Milk is chillin’, Giz is chillin’, what more can I say? Top Billin’!”

Summer of ‘88 in Medina (Brooklyn) was INFAMOUS!

The Gods can tell you, the golden era of hip-hop culture was at its peak in the Mecca of Brooklyn during Summer of ‘88…

Two Iconic albums from local Brooklyn artist dropped June of ‘88. “What More Can I Say?” by MC Milk Dee and DJ Gizmo from Audio Two, and “Long Live The Kane” by Big Daddy Kane.

And it was the hit single “Top Billin’” from Audio Two that reign supreme and captured that infamous Brooklyn summer of ‘88.

Every Block Party would play that song on repeat, and every car with the booming system would take every opportunity to stop at a red light if a group of girls or crew were out there to play that song and show off their system.

If you know, you know…

“Go Brooklyn!”

CARTER™️ Magazine

[djevilninja]

I get money, money I got; Stunts call me honey if they feel real hot. That’s how it is, you can ask Giz; I stole your girl while you were imprisoned. Jailed for MC assault - You was jealous, it’s all your fault.

Audio Two ‎– Top Billin’

[withbellzon]

“I Get Money” x 50 Cent samples “Top Billin’” x Audio Two

[likewater-radio]

Top Billin (Acapella)

[graffitiporn-org]

Top billin’

[lingthusiasm]

Lingthusiasm Episode 96: Welcome back aboard the metaphor train!

We're taking you on a journey to new linguistic destinations, so come along for the ride and don't forget to hold on! 

In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about metaphors! It's easy to think of literary comparisons like "my love is like a red, red rose" but metaphors are also far more common and almost unnoticed in regular conversation as well. For example, English speakers often talk about ideas as a journey (the metaphor train) or as if they're visual - clear or murky or heavy or maybe fuzzy, but not as fluffy or feathery or metallic or polka-dotted, but other languages can use different metaphors. We also talk about the process of metaphor design, and how metaphors can help us understand - or misunderstand - abstract concepts like electricity or language learning.

Note that this episode originally aired as Bonus 30: Welcome aboard the metaphor train! We've added a few new things about metaphors and an updated announcements section to the top. We're excited to share one of our favourite bonus episodes from Patreon with a broader audience, while at the same time giving everyone who works on the show a bit of a break.

Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here.

Announcements:

In this month’s bonus episode we get Tom Scott's Language Files team together on one call for the first and last time! We talk with host/writer Tom Scott, as well as researcher/writer Molly Ruhl and animator Will Marler, about their roles putting the videos togehter, Gretchen's role in the brainstorming and fact-checking process, and what it's like working on a big, multi-faceted project like the Language Files videos.

Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 90+ other bonus episodes. You’ll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds.

Here are the links mentioned in the episode:

Original 'Welcome aboard the metaphor train!' episode on Patreon

Because Internet

Metaphor - etymology (Wikipedia)

Conceptual metaphors 

Gentner, D. (1983). Flowing waters or teeming crowds: Mental models of electricity. In D. Gentner, & A. L. Stevens (Eds.), Mental Models (pp. 99-129). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum. (Gentner and Gentner 1983, 2014 reprint)

German 'wichtig'  

Michael Erard's metaphor for language learning 

FrameWorks Institute 

Malaphors 

Cakewalk 

After recording this episode we researched more about cakewalks, which turned out to have their origin in 19th Century dance events held by African Americans. This article by Nicole Emmanuel goes into more on the history of cakewalk. 

You can listen to this episode via Lingthusiasm.com, Soundcloud, RSS, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download an mp3 via the Soundcloud page for offline listening.

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Lauren is on Bluesky as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, and our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

[diceprophet]

Does anyone remember Razoul, the captain of the guards from Aladdin?

Why did he hate the titular protagonist on such a personal level, for such minor infractions?

Jafar may have gotten top billin' as the villain but by Allah this guy was Al's self-declared nemesis for all three movies. The bastard had the most massive, throbbing hate-on for one particular starving homeless kid.

[superlinguo]

Superlinguo 2023 in review

I spent 2023 on leave to hang out with a new tiny human. I still found time for some linguistics, including regular Lingthusiasm episodes and even some intermittent blogging. I also got to reuse all my linguist pregnancy announcement jokes.

Lingthusiasm

Lingthusiasm turned 7 this year! We celebrated with a dozen main episodes as well as our monthly bonus episodes for patrons. We had some help to get through the year while I was on leave with interviews with linguists from around the world, including Lingthusiasm team members Martha Tsutsi-Billins and Sara Dopierela.

We released our new Etymology isn't Destiny merch, which is available alongside merch for all kinds of linguists and language fans.

Main episodes

Where language names come from and why they change (transcript)

How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting (transcript)

Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge (transcript)

Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation! (transcript)

Word Magic (transcript)

The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries (transcript)

Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences (transcript)

How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro (transcript)

Look, it’s deixis, a word for linguistic pointing! (transcript)

Ergativity delights us (transcript)

Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez (transcript)

If I were an irrealis episode (transcript)

Bonus episodes

Parrots, art and what even is a word - deleted scenes from Kat Gupta, Lucy Maddox and Randall Munroe interviews

Singapore, New Zealand, and a favourite linguistics paper - 2023 Year Ahead Chat

When books speculate on the future of English

Neopronouns, gender-neutral vocab, and why linguistic gender even exists - Liveshow Q&A with Kirby Conrod

2022 Survey Results - kiki/bouba, synesthesia fomo, and pluralizing emoji

Linguistic jobs beyond academia

LingthusiASMR - The Harvard Sentences

How we make Lingthusiasm transcripts - Interview with Sarah Dopierala

Field Notes on linguistic fieldwork - Interview with Martha Tsutsui Billins

Postcards from linguistics summer camp

Linguistic Advice - Challenging grammar snobs, finding linguistic community, accents in singing, and more

Frak, smeg, and more swearing in fiction - Ex Urbe Ad Astra interview with Jo Walton and Ada Palmer

LingComm: 2023 conference

The 2023 LingComm conference happened in February, and was once again in the LingComm conference space in Gather Town. I enjoyed being on the planning committee that put together an amazing event that built on the inaugural conference in 2021. Stay tuned for 2024 lingcomm updates!

Top Superlinguo posts in 2022

This year was a chance to reflect on the decade since I graduated, and to articulate the important role my main supervisor had in shaping my career.

After wrapping up the linguistics jobs interview series last year, this year was a chance to share some aggregated resources from 8 years and 80 interviews.

I also got to read a couple of great linguistics books for kids, keep up to date with linguistics podcasts, share some of my favourite linguistics books and check in on some things happening online.

General posts and reviews

10 years of a PhD

Barb Kelly

Gender Variations for Person in Suit Levitating Emoji - Emoji Proposal

Linguistics and Language Podcasts (2023 update)

Language Books for Kids: Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent & Sean O'Neill

Linguistics books for kids: Once Upon a Word - a Word-origin Dictionary, Jess Zafarris

Linguistics Jobs resources

Linguistics Jobs Interviews - directory of posts and resources

Linguistics Jobs resource set

Superlinguo Linguist Job Interviews full list

Linguistics education and its application in the workplace: An analysis of interviews with linguistics graduates (new publication in Language)

Information and advice

hapax legomenon and automated email replies

Lingthusiasm guide to pop linguistics books

Hello Grambank! A new typological database of 2,467 language varieties

What we can accomplish in 30 years of lingcomm: Opening keynote of #LingComm23

Australian Linguistic Society’s Accredited Linguist program

Academic articles in 2023

Although I was on leave, things that I was working on earlier made it through to publication. I like that there was one paper on lingcomm, one on gesture (including emoji!) and one on the linguistics job interviews, it feels like a nice mix of some of my current interests. Just a pity there wasn't a Tibeto-Burman paper in there!

Gawne, L. & A. Cabraal. 2023. Linguistics education and its application in the workplace: an analysis of interviews with linguistics graduates. Language, 99(1), e35-e57. [doi][Superlinguo post]

Freestone, P., J. Kruk & L. Gawne. forthcoming. From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistic Vanguard, 9(3), 257-266. [doi][Superlinguo post]

Gawne, L., & McCulloch, G. (2023). ‘Communicating about linguistics using lingcomm-driven evidence: Lingthusiasm podcast as a case study’, Language and Linguistics Compass, 17/5: e12499. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12499 [doi][Superlinguo post]

The year ahead

I'll be back to work full time. I've found the low-key level of blogging I managed this year to be sustainable, so expect it to be business-as-usual here. Lingthusiasm will also continue with monthly main and bonus episodes, thanks to the patrons who support the show and ensure we have a team that can keep everything rolling while begin to take on more administrative responsibilities in my job.

I'm looking forward to sharing some things that are in the final stages of peer-review and copy editing, and I'm excited to be spinning up some new projects.

Browsing old Superlinguo content?

I have a welcome page on the blog that points you to aggregate posts, and series of posts I've done over the years, as well as themed collections of posts that have appeared on the blog in the last twelve years.

Previous years

Superlinguo 2022 in review

Superlinguo 2021 in review

Superlinguo 2020 in review

Superlinguo 2020 (2019 in review)

Superlinguo 2019 (2018 in review)

Superlinguo 2018 (2017 in review)

Superlinguo 2017 (2016 in review)

Superlinguo 2015 highlights

[dave-brubot-real-life]

how gay are you in pounds

Pounds? Baby, LOOK AT ME!!! A mechanism ain't nothin' without the firepower to spread flames of fortissimo flap tap back snap toe tapping terror and delights of the night!!!!! These dualin' boobbots alone gotta be at least. More than 8. WAY WAY WAY MOREEEEEEEEE! Eight what? Next question!!!! And that's just a piece of this perfect performer's puzzle, no one wants a musical monster who ain't got the size to be larger than life, ESPECIALLY Dave, but never fear, kick back, relax, of course Dave's got Dave's standards, she knows how it's done, a beautiful fat fuck will always be top billin', number one, top of the star charts, so it's a longer number bop, you're gonna wanna ask little man on boastful-brainiac dot Tumblr dot com if ya want the margins!!!

But Dave's answer? Astronomical. And it's a fools errand to stop me, babe!

[sbataxconsultants]

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The Importance of Tax Strategies for Small Businesses

Tax planning: Small businesses need to be on their toes when it comes to tax laws. Cutting Your Taxes: The Key to Growing a Business Faster Taxes can eat up your profits, however you may get around this by lowering the quantity of tax payable and re-investing those saved into growing your personal enterprise. For sole proprietorship, partnership or LLC having good tax planning will help to take control of finances as well as being careful and compliant in the eyes of the IRS.

Best Tax Planning for 2024 Small Businesses

Use tax deductions

Tax deductions arguably provide Small Business Owners with the most powerful tool. Eligible business expenses mean less taxable income, which is a code for having to pay fewer taxes. These include office supplies, travel expenses to carry you your work advertising or employee wages. Also, look at the Qualified Business Income (QBI) which allows you to deduct up to 20% of your qualified business income for eligible business

Increase your retirement contributions

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Change Your Business Type

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Plan for Estimated Taxes

Hopefully, you pay estimated taxes quarterly because this is just a fine to wake up and be aware of. If you have not budgeted for these payments, then penalties and interest may apply. The simplest way to avoid that challenge will be by rightly estimating and hiding plenty of money the year, which we all know can easily turn into a complicated monthly game. This will help you stay on top of your tax obligations and prevent any surprises come tax season.

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[mikijamcf]

Audio Two was a Brooklyn hip hop duo made up of emcee Kirk "Milk Dee" Robinson and DJ Nat "Gizmo" Robinson, best known for their hit "Top Billin'." Released in 1987 as the B-side to their debut single "Make it Funky," "Top Billin'" became a chart-topping success and one of the most sampled tracks in hip hop history. Their debut album, What More Can I Say? (1988), showcased this hit and solidified their place in the hip hop scene. However, despite early success, their follow-up album, I Don't Care: The Album (1990), yielded only moderate hits like "I Get the Papers."🖤🎼🎶

Milk Dee later found success as a producer, most notably with Eamon's 2004 hit "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)," while Gizmo transitioned into a successful career as a recording engineer, working with artists like Donell Jones and Tyrese. Audio Two's influence continues through the legacy of "Top Billin'," which remains a classic in hip hop.

[amymedbiller]

Leading Online School for Medical Billing and Coding: A Comprehensive Guide to Launching Your Career in Healthcare Administration

**Title: Top Online School for Medical⁢ Billing and Coding: A Comprehensive Guide to Launching Your Career ‌in Healthcare Administration**

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**Benefits of Pursuing Medical Billing and Coding Online:** – Flexible scheduling to⁢ accommodate ​working professionals – Cost-effective compared‌ to traditional⁤ in-person programs – Access to a wide range of online resources ‌and support services – Ability to learn at your own pace from the comfort of your own home

**Top ⁣Online Schools for Medical Billing and Coding:** 1. **AAPC (American Academy of Professional ‍Coders):** Known ‌for offering comprehensive online courses in medical coding and billing. Their curriculum is designed to ⁤prepare students⁤ for industry⁣ certification exams ‌such as Certified Professional Coder (CPC) and Certified Outpatient Coder (COC). 2. **AHIMA (American Health​ Information Management Association):** AHIMA’s online programs focus on medical coding, health information ⁣management, and‌ revenue ​cycle management. Students can earn certifications like Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) and Certified Coding Associate (CCA). 3. **Penn Foster:** Offers an online Medical Billing and Coding program that covers medical ‌terminology, anatomy, and coding systems. Students can gain hands-on experience ​through practical assignments and a virtual lab setting.

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**Conclusion:** Launching a career in healthcare administration through online education in⁢ medical billing and coding ⁤can ⁣open up a world of opportunities. By enrolling in a top online school, ​gaining industry certifications, ⁤and staying committed to your education, you ​can‌ pave the way for​ a successful‌ and rewarding career in ‌this field. Take⁢ the first step towards achieving your goals‌ today!

pursuing a career in healthcare administration through ⁤online education in medical billing and coding can be a rewarding⁢ and fulfilling path. By enrolling⁤ in a top online school, obtaining industry certifications, and staying dedicated to your education, you can set yourself up for success⁣ in this growing field. The flexibility and convenience of online learning make it a great option for working professionals looking to advance their careers in healthcare administration. Start your journey today and ⁢unlock the doors to⁤ a bright future in medical billing and coding!

https://schoolsformedicalbilling.org/leading-online-school-for-medical-billing-and-coding-a-comprehensive-guide-to-launching-your-career-in-healthcare-administration/

[enzos-music]

Jehst & Sonnyjim (UK) LIVE freestyles on Top Billin'

[zon-power-god-man-blog]

Top Billin (Acapella)