Linguistics
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Oil on canvas. / This is the first in the language series. This goes along with “Turn on the light”. Kai Deng is Mandarin Chinese for “Turn on the light” and literally means “open light”. This series will show the idiosyncrasies and oddities in multiple languages. I will primarily be featuring Chinese and English, so to all the multi linguals out there: if you have other language oddness like these, please send them my way. The original painting that featured this concept focused on the frustrations of translation between languages but after painting it, I realized the beauty in it and it spurred on the series itself.
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This was taken at a Sculpture Ranch in Johnson City, Texas. The artist is Eyfells. This image received 2nd place in the contest topic titled Triangles from Those Who Really Are Going Forward group on the EyeFetch site. Thanks for viewing.
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Always dot your ‘i’s and cross your ‘t’s!
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Thanks for the word redbubble! Got me thinking…
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my inky mouth
by bellmuskerRight down the length of your shuddering spine
Sometimes the muse just wants to play with you. You should always let her. Otherwise she gets cranky; and that ain’t pretty.
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
by bellmuskerDo you ever enjoy your job so much that you feel guilty getting paid? I feel so damn lucky that I get to play with words all day. Som…
Do you ever enjoy your job so much that you feel guilty getting paid? I feel so damn lucky that I get to play with words all day. Sometimes, I catch sight of myself in a Collins Street shop window, stilettos and briefcase full of books, hair piled up and black secretary glasses, and think “I have a PAID reason to dance through dictionaries…..life is SWEET!” Today in class I fell in love with collective nouns…..the words for a group of animals. Did you know these terms? / a glaring of cats / a smack of jellyfish / an exaltation of larks / a quiver of cobras / a storytelling of ravens / and my personal favourite….a murder of crows Or how about the charming practicality of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea? / I laughed my arse off about the word for beard – try not to smile at mausgras explained as “mouth grass.” There was a rumour in my Linguistics class that the Tok Pisin word for helicopter was mixmaster bilong jesus. Say it out loud and try not to snort coffee out your nose when you understand. Finally, we discussed phobias, so of course I did some research as to the weird and wonderful range out there, but when I came to anatidaephobia I almost had to be resuscitated – I laughed so hard I frightened small children and think I cracked a rib (mine, not theirs). The fear that somewhere, somehow….a duck is watching you. What a GLORIOUS way to earn a living!
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This collage was inspired by a telephone conversation I attempted to have when I called a friend in Brazil. Hearing another language spoken by a native speaker is quite different from reading or writing it with a translating dictionary.
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Vector translation of pen and ink, 2007. 6” x 6.5” This was my first exhibited piece, and one of my favorites. It marks the transition I made from doodling for my own amusement and for friends to an exhibiting artist striving to put my art out into the world at large.
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Vector mashup of multiple pen and ink designs, 2008. The core of this one is from a design called Pot Guardian. Several elements from other pieces have been grafted onto it.
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Vector translation of pen and ink, 2006 4” x 6” This one was wedding gift for my friends Decker and Lauren.
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Vector translation of pen and ink, 2006. 4” x 6” Part one of a series I did for my parents. I made this one for my mom, then gave it to my dad. I guess it doesn’t really matter which I gave to who, cause they’re both next to each other in my parents’ kitchen.
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Vector translation of pen and ink, 2006. 4” x 6” Part two of a series I did for my parents. I made this one for my dad, then gave it to my mom. I guess it doesn’t really matter which I gave to who, cause they’re both next to each other in my parents’ kitchen.
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Vector translation of pen and ink, 2008. 3” x 3” Dinner Table’s little cousin.
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The Alphabet Witch
by bellmuskerShe’d eaten all the vowels, but everyone knows they’re the most delicious.
Iceland on Hallowe’en does strange things to a woman’s ink….......
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A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of “rise”), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two and too. A homophone is a type of homonym, although sometimes homonym is used to refer only to homophones that have the same spelling but different meanings. The term may also be used to apply to units shorter than words, such as letters or groups of letters that are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters. / Homophones are often used to create puns and to deceive the reader (as in crossword puzzles) or to suggest multiple meanings ACRYLIC ART CALENDARS CARDS POETRY PHOTOGRAPHY – ANIMALS PHOTOGRAPHY -CANDID SHOTS PHOTOGRAPHY – CATS AND DOGS PHOTOGRAPHY – CONTEMPORARY WORK PHOTOGRAPHY – FLOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY – INSECTS PHOTOGRAPHY – TRADITIONALLY TURKISH PHOTOGRAPHY – TREE AND TREE PARTS T-SHİRTS My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © taiche. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited / More products available / Why not follow me on / or join me at I have subdivided this category into sections: follow the links and hit on exactly what fits you. You are now at *ALL TEXT TEES ALCOHOL ATTITUDE BLACK/DARK HUMOUR CURRENT EVENTS- FEMINISM GEEK INNUENDO OFFENSIVE PLAY ON WORDS / POLITICAL SATIRE RELIGION TV QUOTES ANIMAL SERIES ART TO WEAR BIRDS CATS AND DOGS SERIES CELTIC SERIES CUTE SERIES DID I HEAR YOU RIGHT SERIES DIGITAL SERIES EINSTEIN SERIES FOR F*’s AKE SERIES GAY SERIES KISS SERIES LINE DRAWING SERIES MANAGRAM SERIES NATIVE AMERICAN SERIES PALINDROME AND AMBIGRAM SERIES PHALLUS SERIES PISS TAKE SERIES RUDE FOOD SERIES SEASONAL SERIES SIGN AND SYMBOL SERIES SMILE SERIES TEXT ONLY SERIES UK POLITICS UNDERWEAR SERIES VINTAGE BURLESQUE SERİES WTF IS THAT ALL ABOUT? See more of taiche at ZAZZLE / Baby Custom T-Shirts :dress that baby up with a special design on a custom t-shirt, long sleeve or onesize / Kids Custom T-Shirts .from organic t-shirts to long sleeve shirts, boys, girls, and toddlers can fill their fashion needs with a one-of-a-kind custom t-shirts for kids. Check out the latest organic t-shirts, sweatshirts, and girls shirts. And plenty of styles for toddlers too! Aprons / Bags / Buttons / Cards / Hats / Keds Shoes / Keychains / Magnets / Mousepads / Mugs / Postage / Postcards / Stickers / T-Shirt / Ties
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Show some love yo.
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In response to those bigotted t-shirts: This is Australia, We Speak English etc…
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so the alphabet snakes can write on my skin
by bellmuskerMy dictionary woke me this morning.
Spoonerisms: a form of metathesis where consonants, vowels or morphemes are switched around. • “The Lord is a shoving leopard.” (a loving shepherd) / • “A blushing crow.” (crushing blow) / • “A well-boiled icicle” (well-oiled bicycle) / • “You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle.” (lighting a fire) / • “Is the bean dizzy?” (dean busy) / • “You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm” (missed….history, wasted…..term). This piece was inspired by my profile page, and my ever present obsession with language, in all its spellbinding glory.
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I think……yes. She’s behind the window / Stop for a moment…Just now, quiet / Don’t disturb her, Hidden there, where she writes / Letters unknown, But still, Silent, Someone else speaks / Gazing for 60 years, When she was young / Her womb not yet full, Her mind taken with words / Such strange words, She writes, As though the ink never dries / The light never dimming…..It’s harder now / El Tocayo, He’s…….gone, / Deep into the night, the words flow / We cannot imagine her passing / The old one, with the happy laugh There is a home on our street, not far from my own. In this rather attractive, but otherwise un pretentious abode, sits a sprightly old lady, somewhere between the years of 75 and 80. She’s not a fashionable woman, nor well known, outside the invisible fence line which proscribes the fuzzy marker that surrounds the citizens of a remote community. She’s here. They…are 6000 miles to the south. It used to take two days with a surplus World War 2 Catalina, stripped of all armament, to traverse the distance from Miami to that jungle enclave, still perhaps 200 miles from Betty’s home of wood. If you hiked just that 200 miles, it would consume six weeks of arduous struggle, beneath a 30 kilo pack, and you’d probably contract malaria before arriving at a small village, confronting a few naked children, curiously watching from the nearest hut. All the rest of the village, save the chief and the perhaps eight of his eldest men, would be in hiding. Intermittently, labor gangs have marched noisily through these villages, M1’s in hand, and taken young boys and girls by force, to far off towns.. Most have never returned…. She and her ex military husband moved to this remote community nearly 60 years ago, something of a lifetime in terms of people younger than they, displaced, as I am, by miles and age, even though I have passed 50, years ago, they still created a career before I was born, a world and a philosophy away. In ideas, perhaps a universe apart. It was to both narrow, and to become nearly one. In 1996, Wade Evans wrote a journalized and photographic history of one of the world’s greatest anthropologists, Richard Evans Schultes, in his tome, “The Lost Amazon”. The volume is richly illustrated, and in the realm of Amazonian study, is hard to release to the coffee table, once opened. There are still areas of that land, quite near the home where I lived, which teem with rare insects, tower great Mahogony trees, still dance with the screams of furry monkeys, and call your name from a seductive undercurrent of passion and life threatening danger. In that book Wade also ruminates on the Machiguenga tribe, a mostly peaceful, yet deeply mysterious people, living in abject poverty in our terms, but justifiably proud of their history and their highly developed skills in flourishing in the Green Mile. Betty, my old friend from Peru, sits most nights under the glow of a 40 watt lamp, keyboarding her dictionary for the Machiguenga language group, a tribe of perhaps 5000 souls. What she scribes, will never make the Times Best Seller List, nor a discussion at the United Nation’s General Assembly. She writes the infinite details of an incomprehensible word, in a language that existed for perhaps thousands of years, hidden in the trackless jungles of this same Amazon. Both authors are each close together and yet….galaxies distant. Both skilled in their professions. Not just skilled, but world class experts. In some senses, there are of one mind. Both write with passionate dedication, as did Richard Wade, overlapping the window and repository catalog of his work, with Betty and her husband. We write, yes, I join them in this often monotonous passion, because we have deep inside us, the burning fire to communicate what we each perceive as the essential need of mankind to understand. Betty, that her brothers will have a language in writing, Richard, that the world might know of the beauty of the Amazon, Wade, that the world would not forget Richard, and I, that the world might know how these pale gifts, connected. What, where, when, and Why. I write because I burn with the desire to pull together, the rending threads of our world. I remember Betty from decades past, translating and writing down phonetic sounds of the Machi language. I remember the lianas and trunks of those Mahogany trees, that perhaps even my own guitar was built from, I remember the faces of those tribes people Richard Evans photographed, and I remember the words of Wade Evans, as he wrote, / ”Only then (a spiritual journey), when he realizes what lies beyond the door, can he receive his staff and the summons from God to be the protector of his people.” To write, is to speak with considered tone, to speak with passion, when speech is not possible, for the audience is scattered from one end of the earth to the other. To write, is to contain one of the most precious gifts we were given at the dawn of recorded history. To not write, is to repress the millions of words that have given mankind the ideas to live! / And in living, to prosper. And in prospering, to spread that prosperity in whatever form, to the rest of mankind. Why write? Because we cannot be silent! Betty’s people will lose their identity, their culture, and their new found sense of hope! Betty sits hunched over that computer, while my son scans in those 60, 50, 40, and 30 year old drawings for her to publish in this book of Machiguenga words. She, with her knarled and arthritic fingers, tells the world, that Machiguenga is NOT a dead language. That the Machis have a right to exist, grow and become leaders in our world, not just the tiny patch of ant ridden jungle they live in, under thatched roof and raised wood floors. Today, because of Betty’s work, one of those same naked children, dresses in a three piece suit, speaks at least six languages, and serves today, in an international body……..because of Betty’s passion to write.
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MIXED MEDIA / Image Copyright © 2008 JANE À PARIS / Professionally photographed by Citizens Photo HOW DID I KNOW THAT WORD? / _________ I am always amazed by words that I know / Somehow, incredibly, in my mind they are wandering to and fro / They are not words that I use in everyday conversation / It feels me with awe and I make an exclamation / Yet when I am writing a poem or a story / Somehow they manifest their grand glory / They pop out of a file from the back of my mind / And I exclaim, oh wow, I was in a bind, what a find / I shake my head in wonder, how did I know that / It simply astounds me that that word came out of my thinking hat / Then of course, comes the doubt of my knowledge foreseen / There must be some mistake, I don’t know this or what it means / So I look it up in the dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia / I look in all manner and forms of books and references of the academia / And what I most often than not discover / Is that my mind does know that word, but for one reason or another it was / ...just kept undercover / It makes me feel really good to learn / That I am little bit smarter than l had discerned JANE À PARIS Writing and Image Copyright ©2008 JANE À PARIS Description: This is just an experience I have when writing that must be experienced by other writers as well, the exhilaration of pulling up just the right word or a word that you had no idea that you knew, “How did I know that word?”
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We get on like a horse on fire
by bellmuskerTeacher, want you dinner with me? _Ah, thanks, but school policy advises us not to …..um….date our students. Maybe we could hav…
Teacher, want you dinner with me? Ah, thanks, but school policy advises us not to …..um….date our students. Maybe we could have a class excursion to a restaurant? I not interested with class. I just want you…...you, and your phenomenon. The torture of wonderful lines like that is that you splutter, and turn to raise your eyebrows at someone in mischievous solidarity – and are met only by the confused gaze of a shy young Korean man, totally perplexed as to why his teacher is turning purple. I love my job. Linguistics keeps me alive, and being able to teach about the Germanic language family, Chaucerian couplets and non-defining relative clauses to a sea of eager Russian, Japanese, Brazilian and Turkish students makes me shine. And their deliciously inept grasp of my troublesome language keeps me entertained for hours. On a resume – In my three months in Australia, I have been working as a vacuum cleaner. / In a diary – I ran for the train and jumped on the last part of it. How say that – train’s tail? Train’s arse? / On a job application – For the last three summers, I have done a lifeguard in Pusan. Without a doubt, the most notorious part of English for most students is prepositions. These irksome little grammar particles are so hard to get right, and have resulted in some of my favourite mistakes. I don’t have my dictionary today – I left it in my housemate. So I went to the pub last night, and this guy came on me at the bar. / – He did what?! / – Flirted with me…why, is wrong? / – Ah, I think you mean he came onto you. There’s a world of difference, be careful! – So let’s talk about your daily routines, practise some adverbs of frequency. / – Well, every Sunday evening I eat out my wife. / – Excuse me?! / – Yes, sometimes we have Italian food, sometimes Thai…..are you ok? / – Ah, you need another preposition; eat out with my wife…..please. The cultural differences trigger dischord also, and give some memorable moments; like the man who thought it was socially acceptable to pick his nose while I was talking to him, and wipe his findings across his cheek. Shudder. Tattooed women come in for speculation also; for many of my Japanese students, that’s a sign of the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, while for others it’s the sign of ahem ‘a woman of easy virtue’. Although my tattoos are covered in my ritzy private language college, many of my students know about them, and react in different ways. My feminist feistiness also gets challenged, like with the Korean student who wrote a job application stating ‘although I am just a woman, I think I could still do this job’. One student walked into a colleague’s class, took one look at her and went straight to the office to demand a male teacher because ‘a woman has not enough knowledge’. Oh my lord, where do I begin? Pronunciation gives me joy too, like the Vietnamese student who told his host mother ‘I want fuck you in my room’. It took quite a few perplexed questions and a spot of miming before she realised he was actually saying ‘vacuum’. Each language has its own particular problem area, such as Spanish students going to St Kilda Bitch each weekend, instead of beach, or Japanese students talking about the national erection instead of election….....how I keep a straight face, I don’t know. Actually, I have to say I often don’t! And I really don’t think they mind. Given that I’m a flame haired tattooed pagan wench whose teaching style derives from her dominatrix days and who bases her image half on a librarian, half on Van Halen’s ‘hot for the teacher’ video, who plays Pantera for her class to analyse the lyrics and takes them to quiz nights at the Cherry Bar….what’s a little laughter at the end of the day? My favourite story, which some of you may be familiar with, involves a shy young Colombian man who beckoned me over and whispered ‘what’s the word for animals, and sex?’ I wasn’t sure why he needed to know, but I told him ‘Ah, that’s bestiality’. The other students overheard and I ended up writing it on the board, drilling them in pronunciation and syllable stress, and they all wrote it in their little notebooks. And then the student said, almost to himself, ‘Ok, so that’s when animals have sex’. And I froze. ‘Hang on, no…..that’s mating. When animals have sex, they mate.’ ‘Oh, I see. So what’s bestiality then?’ I don’t think my class ever looked at me quite the same way again. Just a little musing….but you’ll have to excuse me, class is about to begin. And I have my little red notebook open and ready….who knows what gems will be delivered today?
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