Cultural Perspectives in Language: Entries in an Actual Dictionary
1. Bloke n. (Informal - British) A man.
('He's a nice bloke.')
2. Dude n. (Informal - North American) A man. ('If a dude hits me, I'm hitting him back.')
2. Dude n. (Informal - North American) A man. ('If a dude hits me, I'm hitting him back.')
Cancel culture? No – but maybe move it to a Friday
evening time slot.
What kind of films do I prefer? It depends on the substrate.
Squids can't have culture, at least not culture that persists beyond a generation. When it comes time to mate, all the squids of a species liquid-jet to rendezvous waters for a final orgy. Then they die. The egg-bound young are left to hatch without living parents. Every squid comes into the world without teachers. Anything the sisters, brothers, and cousins learn during their lives and succeed in communicating to their peers is lost when it's their turn to mate and die.
“The
CHARACTER of a head or an authority is just the common
quality as attitudinal characteristics found in the majority of
the people working under his or her belt for a considerable time
period.”
~Anuj Somany
~Anuj Somany
The fact that people think in
different accents
really gets to me
So,
we have
this
Asian
kid
in our
class,
and
it kinda
went
like
this..
Marlee: Do you really eat cats?
Hunter: On days that end in Y..
*Five Minutes Later*
Marlee: Days that end in Y? That's every day!
Tatum: God, you're slow!
Marlee: Do you really eat cats?
Hunter: On days that end in Y..
*Five Minutes Later*
Marlee: Days that end in Y? That's every day!
Tatum: God, you're slow!
"Mitch,” he said, “the culture doesn’t encourage you to
think about such things until you’re about to die. We’re so
wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough
money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the
radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little
acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of
standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all?
Is this all I want? Is something missing?"
T
he question why I would let Willow cut her
hair. First, the 'let' must be
challenged. This is a world where women, girls, are
constantly reminded that they don't
belong to themselves; that their bodies are not their own,
nor their power or self determination. I made a
promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know
that her body, mind and spirit are all her domain.
Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth, is
not measured by the length of her hair. It's also a statement
that claims that even little girls have the right
to own themselves and should not be a slave
to even their mother's deepest insecurities, hopes
and desires. Even little girls should not be a slave
to preconceived ideas of what a culture believes they should
be.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
