I've been a Grade-A word freak since I was tiny. It's half the reason why I'm so anal about foreign pronunciation sometimes, although I'm in no way a grammar Nazi or a prescriptivist. Some words do, I think, have a right and wrong, especially when you are trying to respect another culture or place in time, but the way that certain "wrong" word uses speak to a dialect's nature and the speaker's world can be so enlightening and, frankly, beautiful. I love Black Country Speech, Gullah, Ulster Scots, Cockney, Patois, Tok Pisin and Pittsurghese. They make English better for being their own standards, outside and inside at once.
I'm just an undergraduate set to get a BA in Linguistics in Autumn.
"Feared" as in "filled with fear" is actually quite a venerable usage, particularly in constructions like "storm-feared;" and "a-feared" is basically just a variant on "afraid" that emphasises that residual past participle prefix by altering the structure of the verb in question to reflect its root.
It's sort of like "axe you a question." That exact spelling is in the Coverdale Bible. It's as old as the more common for and in its own way just as valid. It's a different tradition.
Also the double negative has its roots in non-English languages where there is a negative that precedes the verb and a further negative qualifier. Take French: Je ne sais pas is "I do not know;" je ne sais rien is "I know nothing."
I've been a Grade-A word freak since I was tiny. It's half the reason why I'm so anal about foreign pronunciation sometimes, although I'm in no way a grammar Nazi or a prescriptivist. Some words do, I think, have a right and wrong, especially when you are trying to respect another culture or place in time, but the way that certain "wrong" word uses speak to a dialect's nature and the speaker's world can be so enlightening and, frankly, beautiful. I love Black Country Speech, Gullah, Ulster Scots, Cockney, Patois, Tok Pisin and Pittsurghese. They make English better for being their own standards, outside and inside at once.
I'm just an undergraduate set to get a BA in Linguistics in Autumn.
I've been a Grade-A word freak since I was tiny. It's half the reason why I'm so anal about foreign pronunciation sometimes, although I'm in no way a grammar Nazi or a prescriptivist. Some words do, I think, have a right and wrong, especially when you are trying to respect another culture or place in time, but the way that certain "wrong" word uses speak to a dialect's nature and the speaker's world can be so enlightening and, frankly, beautiful. I love Black Country Speech, Gullah, Ulster Scots, Cockney, Patois, Tok Pisin and Pittsurghese. They make English better for being their own standards, outside and inside at once.
I'm just an undergraduate set to get a BA in Linguistics in Autumn.
Anyway, I gotta end this because this is waaaaay off-topic, but if anyone wants to talk to me about language and etymology, I've got my personal thread and I am ready to rant.
In more relevant news: I wrote a pop-rock song of sorts about being depressed. I think it's pretty damn catchy, albeit with snatches of dissonance for interest.
I may have new stuff in a release-y form at some point (fourth EP? third album? (!) compilation?), but for now I'm just jamming out singles at a snail's pace, which is cool
Like that's not an excuse, it's true. That little like tickticktick thing that a lot of rap beats have? I have no idea how to do that, can't make it work.
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New track!
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a quiet little hi hat in there somewhere that goes through most of the thing
just stick a closed hi-hat on every other step in the sequencer
then replace every 4th pattern with the slightly different one
boom, variation and interest and all that good stuff
gotta install windows wooo~
I could do that tonight!!!!! OwO
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