#until friday because i have.

[juniper-clan]

Moon 11: For Auld Lang Syne

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[dawnthefluffyduck]

Crazy issues that come up when a character is written a little too well

[outfoxt]

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!!

[changingplumbob]

So Reapers Rewards is very buggy. While y'all have been slaving away trying to catch that angelfish, Shay and I completed that goal... by just examining the water at the fishing spot 🫠 that's not how science works. Do we need the angelfish for ambrosia? Is there any point sending her on more 12 hour fishing trips to get it?

I finished another four days of SBL posts and reached the point I was aiming for which does take me to November 2nd once that's queued which means it's time for my break from any kind of writing! I plan to have a Disney Dreamlight Valley day because lord knows I haven't touched that in ages. Also going to replay classic Until Dawn so that when I get myself the PS5 version I can properly appreciate the improvements.

We have a church dinner tomorrow that I'm a bit stressed about because as far as I know there's no vegetarians let alone vegans like me so who knows if I'll be able to eat anything other than the salad we're taking ourselves...

[north-wilkesboro-moonshine-cave]

congratulations to Mme. Pascale Leclerc, who has surely just experienced both the funniest and most unhinged weekend a mother could ever have. Dear fucking christ, I hope your middlest son brought you a bottle of champagne for yourself, ma'am.

[livinginsunnyhell]

I don’t know if I believe that 8x5 is going to be THE episode but it’s hard not to have hope and it’s hard not to feel jittery about all the possibilities.

[otaku553]

I am bored and sad about schoolwork so I want to interact a little bit,,, please send me some asks!

Can’t promise any fancy pieces but if you want a small doodle of a character (preferably not ocs please) feel free to send in a request as well!

[dootys]

Happy Friday the 13th!!!!

Here we go again! It's Friday the 13th today, so let's celebrate Jason's day!! 😍

[sensitiveheartless]

Ok so because of the weird art time I’m having, I’ve been having a bit of trouble committing to a single drawing (persistent squirrel brain), so: what do y’all think, any preferences on what I finish next?

[magicwhiskers29]

Is this art meme still cool or

(Happy Flora Friday!)

[morgenlich]

i know no one here is invested in the nail polish world asdcfv but watching 10 out the 12 polishes in holo taco's new limited edition collection sell out in 10 hours is genuinely insane....

[miodiodavinci]

collapses to the ground like a deflated balloon

[therealamperssand]

On Libraries and Stuff

Fun fact, libraries don't just have books! Many also have movies, shows, and music which you can get for free with a free library card! The only drawback is that you generally have to return them within 3 weeks or so (longer than some free trials!), but that isn't a problem because you can just go back and check out more stuff. Libraries are so cool and important and we need to keep them!

[bluehairmisfit]

Not to make “tag vent sunday” a thing but Idk how I can go from having a great string of days where I feel happy and confident to just. Randomly fucking dropping. And feeling like the actual worst.

[thefutureviolents]

BLOOD ON HER SKIN, DRIPPING WITH SIN

Frank Iero ✩ Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie

(Feat. places of honour for Kayleigh and Tucker)

Tagging some new mutuals here under the cut this is for y'all beloveds

@frankiecorleone @weedbongfrank @fagdykefrank @inqueee enjoy!

[clowndensation]

the thing about the next month is that it's going to. suck.