Daniel is dedicated; speech and song
What do you get when a writer and director of commercial TV is a trained phonologist (and a person evidently steeped in great literature)? Brilliant YouTube, that’s what.
In Disgrace, Coetzee writes of his protagonist:
Un mundo inmenso’s newest video, on the Canary Islands, also touches on some distinctly musical speech.
Topography determines phonology which determines usage. (Of necessity, the speakers of this whistle-language use a lot of synonyms. The video explains.) Mindblowing stuff.
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We took Daniel to the front of the church on Sunday and dedicated him to the Lord along with three other infants. He was observed from the pews by four grandparents, two step-grandparents, and two great-grandparents, as well as by his brother, Samuel, who howled and squirmed in Karin’s dad’s arms.
Afterward, my half of the family posed for this photo. (Karin is behind the camara.)
Only two games per day now. I have World Cup withdrawal: twitching, hallucinations, etc. But yesterday I made up for it by streaming France vs. Poland a day late (it was broadcast while we were in church). Mbappé made two golazos. He is so good, but he is such a twerp. He did a couple of ostentatious, pointless backheel touches. He is out-twerping his clubmate, Neymar, who has been injured most of the tournament.
In Disgrace, Coetzee writes of his protagonist:
He finds … preposterous [the premise]: “Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other.” His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out the overlarge and rather empty human soul.Funny to think that iambic pentameter is what fills out the overlarge and rather empty English soul.
Un mundo inmenso’s newest video, on the Canary Islands, also touches on some distinctly musical speech.
Topography determines phonology which determines usage. (Of necessity, the speakers of this whistle-language use a lot of synonyms. The video explains.) Mindblowing stuff.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
We took Daniel to the front of the church on Sunday and dedicated him to the Lord along with three other infants. He was observed from the pews by four grandparents, two step-grandparents, and two great-grandparents, as well as by his brother, Samuel, who howled and squirmed in Karin’s dad’s arms.
Afterward, my half of the family posed for this photo. (Karin is behind the camara.)
Only two games per day now. I have World Cup withdrawal: twitching, hallucinations, etc. But yesterday I made up for it by streaming France vs. Poland a day late (it was broadcast while we were in church). Mbappé made two golazos. He is so good, but he is such a twerp. He did a couple of ostentatious, pointless backheel touches. He is out-twerping his clubmate, Neymar, who has been injured most of the tournament.