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It's a pretty classic belt scroller beat 'em up, but it spruces up the Castle Crashers is a minor cult game that's welcome on every platform. Castle Crashers is a minor cult game that's welcome on every platform. ![]() Someone who has notions or is getting notions has an inflated sense of their own importance, status, or charm. Of the two Irish senses, this is the only one I use. Notions has another sense in Irish English, that of pretension or affectation. unless of course you get a notion of her as well!’ ‘It’s a hard bind when a dacent woman has a notion of you and does you a good turn. Share cites Ó Faoláin’s story as an example, along with this one from Michael ‘Gossie’ Browne in Mary Ryan et al. have a notion of, to be sexually attracted to’.īernard Share’s invaluable Slanguage defines notions as ‘sexual inclinations’ and adds the same phrase have a notion of, ‘be amorously attracted to’. The Chambers Dictionary of Slang has an entry for the Irish usage, defining it as ‘amorous inclinations, usu. In Ireland, notion(s) can have very particular connotations of sexual or flirtatious behaviour. While the idea of affection or attraction here is evident, the sexual or amorous element doesn’t appear to be necessarily central, or even necessary. Had a strang notion o’ the lass mysel’ (1789) a Yankee may have a kinder sneakin’ notion arter her (1864) This soldier took a notion to my granny (1985). one of a romantic or sexual nature.Īll its examples are in the singular, e.g. The OED, however, includes one sense that comes close:īrit. For the most part they echo Georgie’s pocket dictionary: opinion, idea, belief, conception, whim, etc. Most of the major dictionaries are of little use in explaining the notions Sister Eustasia warned Jenny about. I’m not sure what Ó Faoláin’s intent was in making Dick unaware of it: maybe the usage was not common in Cork at that time, maybe it’s for readers’ benefit, or maybe Dick’s time in England means he’s not fully up to speed with some of the Irish vernacular.Īnyway, about those notions. ‘To steal’ is one of several meanings of the word feck in Ireland. If you can, what was your word, feck half-a-crown, you may come.’ ‘If we subscribe seventeen and sixpence, do you think you can contribute half-a-crown?’ The oldest boy, Dick, organises the money and says to Gong Gong: Clearly a notion was very sexy.Ī plan is hatched: the boys will pay a local woman of notorious reputation to explain to them or show them her notion or notions, whatever that might entail. The two girls stared at one another with cow’s eyes, blushed scarlet and fled from the shop shrieking with laughter. ![]() ‘Pardon me ladies, but do you by any chance happen to have notions?’ She suggests asking ‘two giggling girls’ who are eating toffee nearby, and Georgie does so with consummate politeness: The boys turn for help to Mrs Coffey, in whose sweetshop they hang about. ‘An ingenious contrivance’? ‘An imperfect conception (U.S.)’? ‘Small wares’? It did not make sense. The three gazed at one another, and began at once to discuss all the possible sexy meanings of notions. ‘Ould Sister Eustasia,’ he fizzled, ‘made her go out in the yard and wash herself under the tap, she said they didn’t want any girls in their school who had notions.’ Sprayed them with the news that his sister Jenny had been thrown out of class that morning in Saint Monica’s for turning up with a red ribbon in her hair, a mother-of-pearl brooch at her neck and smelling of scent. One day the youngest, Tommy, nicknamed Gong Gong for his ‘wild bursts of talk like a fire alarm’, The boys read comics from England,* we’re told, ‘which was where they got all those swanky words like Wham, Ouch, Yaroosh, Ooof and Jolly Well.’ Educated by priests and nuns, they are at a loss to understand some of the words they hear used in relation to adult and sexual behaviour. It’s a humorous coming-of-age tale of a group of teenage boys in Cork city, containing several explicit references to language. ‘The Talking Trees’ by Seán Ó Faoláin is the opening story in the anthology Body and Soul: Irish Short Stories of Sexual Love, edited by David Marcus and published by Poolbeg Press in 1979. ![]() Three months later, it followed that with a jewelry authentication program. 4 different rotation programs are geared towards the specific requirements of a large number of watches. 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Aided by computers and mechanical trading strategies, this type of activity tends to result in movements into and out of futures markets quickly and violently resulting in increasing market volatility as underlying liquidity is exhausted. Wider trading limits are not the cause of erratic futures market behavior and focusing on trading limits may be ignoring the underlying cause of volatility.Ī growing proportion of the outside (non-hedging) liquidity in feeder futures is, by many accounts, from sources motivated primarily by portfolio management rather than actually speculating based on feeder cattle market fundamentals. While this is necessary in a world of generally increased commodity market volatility and higher than historical price levels, it also allows larger futures price movements when no fundamental reason exists or when a “cooling off” period is warranted. Have trading hours become too long for the amount of traders taking positions each hour or even each minute given modern technology? Daily trading limits have been expanded to allow markets to adjust faster and not be hamstrung. Institutional changes in trading hours and daily price limits are all pieces of the puzzle. A question is, have changes in recent years have aggravated the problem and threaten the future viability of feeder futures? Liquidity is required for traders to have orders filled quickly, completely and cost effectively. Feeder futures (and especially options) have been thinly traded in the distant contracts making them difficult to use. Since their inception in 1971, feeder futures contracts have suffered from marginal levels of liquidity, which often limited the effectiveness of the contracts. Producers have historically been quick to blame speculators for unwarranted influence in cattle markets but without speculators there would not be enough liquidity for most agriculturally-based futures markets. Erratic futures price movements and increased basis volatility makes it difficult or impossible for the industry to use feeder futures for its two primary roles of risk management and price discovery. However, it is increasingly important to ask and deal with questions and concerns, or the alternative may be undesired.įeeder futures have become increasingly volatile in ways that often appear unrelated to market fundamentals. For many years, I have defended the value of futures markets and the role of speculators in making those markets possible. A growing chorus of cattle producers are expressing frustration regarding feeder cattle futures markets. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. 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Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II ( more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions ( more information). Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement the rule of the shorter term. The ivory's extraordinary size and quality suggest. The style of his drapery is classical, but the Christian subject matter is Byzantine. It shows an archangel holding an orb and sceptre. It comes from a hinged 2-leaf diptych, possibly used as a writing table. On the inside, there is an icon and the text of the Lords. This is one of the largest surviving ivories from the Byzantine Empire. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. This diptych, available in 2 sizes, features a fully printed cover. ![]() You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. Licensing Public domain Public domain false false Photograph from Hayford Pierce and Royal Tyler, L'art byzantin, Paris, 1932. The plot (and the major twist) in Arrival hinges on the infamous Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: the strong version of this controversial (and widely disputed) theory of linguistic relativity poses that all (all!) thought and action is determined and constrained by the language an individual speaks. A neat twist on a linguistic theory (albeit, not a very popular one) Nice work here rebutting Weber’s insistence that the six-word question isn’t complicated. Explaining the complexity of languageĪ perfect Ling 101 lesson occurs when Louise shows the difficulty of asking a question like “What is your purpose on Earth” before establishing the Heptapods’ comprehension of the question’s parts: the nature of interrogative structures, the collective “you” versus specific “you,” the lexical semantics of each word in a larger phrase, etc. Points awarded for working with what she’s got. Going back over the script, however, I find this justifiable: Louise makes it clear there is no way she’ll be able to reproduce their sounds (or study their articulatory mechanisms), so she decides to try writing and visual communication. Focus on written communicationĪt first, I balked (as did my inner linguist) at the decision to communicate with the Heptapods via the written word. Weber asks why she is building a vocabulary list of grade-school words instead of starting with more specific terms. It deserved at least a nod in the screenplay, but I’ll give the writers credit for Louise’s example of a pulaski (a tool used by firefighters) when Col. I don’t recall Louise ever mentioning the term “Swadesh list” in the film, which is a shame, because the list of one hundred words, originally chosen for cultural-independence and maximal availability across languages, is a terrific tool. She begins by constructing a Swadesh list of common words and concepts-an excellent start to gathering data on the Heptapods’-or any unknown-language. Louise’s fieldwork method is entirely credible in a situation that requires a monolingual discovery procedure (where there is no shared language between fieldworker and subject). Weber that translation based solely on the audio would be impossible-whereas she already knew the Farsi necessary to translate off-site two years ago, with this unknown language she needs to be there with the aliens, interacting with them, teaching them English. Upon hearing the spoken Heptapod language for the first time, linguist Louise Banks immediately informs Col. What Arrival Gets Right The Necessity of Interaction In fact, I didn’t find nearly as much language science in the flick as I expected. Here’s what I came away with: The short answerĪrrival gets some things right, gets some things wrong, could have done some things better, and isn’t about linguistics at all. So, when Arrival, the 2016 blockbuster where “linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors” (IMDB) came out, my inner linguist and I poured a glass of wine and sat down, prepared to be amazed. All fine films and books, but my inner linguist sulks after watching or reading them. Most of the time, disappointment lies at the end of the hunting trip: the linguist is a translator ( The Interpreter, 2005) the main character is a hyper-polyglot ( The Informationist, 2011 ) the plot turns on the unintelligibility of languages ( Enemy Mine, 1985 Windtalkers, 2002) the filmmakers employ a clever linguisticky gimmick, like putting all the dialogue in Latin, Hebrew, and reconstructed Aramaic with subtitles ( The Passion of the Christ, 2004) the linguist could easily be replaced by an X-ist without altering the story’s substance ( Still Alice, 2014). When I see the word ‘linguist’ in a book blurb or a movie synopsis, my ears start twitching like a bloodhound on the scent. ![]() You can meet Christina and read more of her writing at Be sure to also check out her previous article in this series, Linguistics in Fiction. Christina’s short fiction has been widely published her novels (featuring a linguist, of course!) are represented by Laura Bradford. Her research covers the physical, cognitive, and social forces contributing to variation in Italian and British English, and she has held faculty positions in the US, UK, and UAE. is a theoretical linguist specializing in the phonetics and phonology of sound change. Please join the mailing list to be notified every time new content is posted. Each week, we ask an expert to tackle some aspect of fantasy writing (cultures, weapons, horses, etc.) or a scientific / technological concept pervasive in science fiction. ![]() This article on the linguistics in Arrival is part of the Science in Sci-fi, Fact in Fantasyblog series. |
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