Entextualization
Automatic Closed Captions Using Eye Dialect
The captions generated for this video follow an inconsistent eye dialect- part of it is just classic speech misinterpretation, but there are a good few moments where it becomes clear that the captions are trying to transcribe within the singer's dialect. [Published on 12-11-2024]
It Is Will Reopen
Photo of paper posted around Reed Campus saying "It Is Will Reopen," mocking the recent SOLAR outage and the text displayed on the error page. Expressive of general unhappiness with Reed admin recently. A bit prescriptivist. Michel de Certeau says that skyscrapers are the letters of a language/rhetoric -- graffiti is a reappropriation.
Another example: https://www.instagram.com/p/C51qsw1SlYWZgpLj1SP56kpT61fF3ZmvaQel3s0/
When Slang Becomes a Slur
Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg, who testified in the trademark trial over the name of the football team the Washington Redskins, argues that the term remains a slur and that the team name should be changed. [Published on 06-23-2014]