16 5 / 2013
do you ever cry because you’ve somehow managed to gain a truly fucking amazing person as your friend? and just think about how fucking blessed you are for their existence and how in some previous life you must have done something fucking amazing to deserve them in this life? DO YOU?
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09 5 / 2013
If you are bilingual, please read:
If you are bilingual/multilingual and you would be willing to fill out a short questionnaire for me, please answer here. It will be very short, anonymous and I will be using it for my final paper in my Cultural Anthropology class. I would really appreciate it, and it would really help me out! Thanks everyone.
Anyone interested?
Please help my friend with this project! We should always help out our fellow researchers!
11 4 / 2013
in other news: one of my cats had kittens and there are 3 cute little bundles of joy
we will be drowning in kittens soon enough!
31 3 / 2013
12 7 / 2012
![theatlantic:
The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture
One of the clearest regional differences in the U.S. can found by tracking the words people use to refer to soft drinks, which is in fact the map you saw at the top of this story. Pop or soda, or even Coke, these small linguistic differences are not as small as we might think. While “soda” commands the Northeast and West Coast (green) and “pop” is in between (black), “Coke” reigns in the south (turquoise). These small distinctions can often act as touchstones for larger cultural differences.
Read more. [Image: Samuel Arbesman]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33cl9VdDM1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture
One of the clearest regional differences in the U.S. can found by tracking the words people use to refer to soft drinks, which is in fact the map you saw at the top of this story. Pop or soda, or even Coke, these small linguistic differences are not as small as we might think. While “soda” commands the Northeast and West Coast (green) and “pop” is in between (black), “Coke” reigns in the south (turquoise). These small distinctions can often act as touchstones for larger cultural differences.
Read more. [Image: Samuel Arbesman]
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