before i settle in for the night
Ohhhh dear. Quel jour...we had our SLUgS symposium today and it was an excellent affair. I fear I was not of any help, except for hunting in Dwinelle for an ice chest, but am I ever that useful anyway...It was such a fun time though, and I was so impressed at how many faculty and grad students stayed for the whole day or at least much after their own talks. We even got a few faculty that weren't even presenting that stayed for a while. It was just fun to be in the company of my linguofriends and my favorite gsis the whole day. It was just like Academic Decathlon...I had the Klinton for the weekend too; it was too short of a visit but we had fun. And he fixed my internet! Now that my network is password-protected it's a lot faster! Thank you techie boyfriend.
I have a new research idea. I want to really figure out what my dialect is =) Everyone says I sound Canadian, Klinton says I just overarticulate everything and don't use the tap as much as other American English speakers because of my crazy prescriptivist mother...I have some features of Californian English, and a few of Canadian English, but I wonder if it's all just to do with my mom, who would never let me say "button" with the glottal stop or "butter" with the tap. But I think my vowels come from my Canadian relatives...it would be cool to record myself and see where listeners think I am from. I really just want to study Californian English because I want to understand the features of the dialect that surrounds me; being surrounded by it makes it hard to understand what those features are when that is what I grew up with. (There's some different stuff going on in Cowtown English, though...)
Now I must settle in and resume my Sunday all-nighter...I'm getting tired of this pattern.
posted by siobhan @ 11:40 PM
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