https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1 Made with good vibes en-us 2017-05-01 14:17:06 UTC 2017-05-08 07:36:17 UTC hello@padlet.com ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169177128 This is an Ask Steve video from the Steve Harvey Show. A woman asked how to handle a situation with a group of friends. Steve suggested to show who's boss by saying "You ont wont dis." The woman try to learned this phrase but could not get it right. So she said. "You don't want this," which is what it mean in an American Standard English. When it is said correctly, the meaning and aggressiveness is lost versus when it is said in slang. When slang is used, it is showing that you do not want to mess with someone, but when slang is not use, it show that you won't do anything. ]]> 2017-05-01 14:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169177128 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169192375 Steve Harvey, apparently made a dictionary with words from the Hood, and had a spelling bee champion, Akash, spelled some of the words. There were words like "enno" and "fitna", which means "even know" and "about to" respectively. Although Akash spelled some of theses words wrong, Steve say the spellings are correct: it does not matter the spelling of the word, all that matters is how you say them.]]> 2017-05-01 15:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169192375 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169199477 On a particular Fridays, after my first class, I would go to stamp and study or accomplishes some work. Two girls, one who is an African Muslim, who is also mix with Indian, and the other, is a Nigerian girl. They were talking and I was listening to them, (multi-tasking) and I have learned their background. They recently met so they are getting to know each other, and where they were from. The Nigerian girl is also Muslim but she does not wear Hijab that Muslim women wear. She talks about that she was told by her brother that she as going to get bullied, because of her accent and wearing Hijab. The Nigerian girl did not have a strong Nigerian accent, only coming to America in 2014.  She then talks about how she had to watch many YouTube videos to learn how to speak the American dialect. Her friends did encourage her that they love the accent, since she still has a small accent. She talked about her schooling in Nigeria and how they were taught English in school. It relates back to what we learn in class about code switching between dialects and assimilating to the American English Dialect. 

]]> 2017-05-01 15:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169199477 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169200100 I took a linguistic class in Fall Semester of 2016 (last semester). Our professor was talking about aspirations in English. Aspiration is a little puff of air that comes out after saying certain sounds. In the lecture, the professor mention how we can tell if people are native to a language and of they language is secondary to the person. The example she used is the word "poco." She said the word, and then had a spanish native say the same word. The sounds of the word is very distinct. The professor had a little sound after the "P" when she spoke, and the spanish native had no sound after the "P". Based on aspiration and sound and letters of other languages, where some language have different letters and sounds in their alphabet, we can tell if someone is native or not in a language]]> 2017-05-01 15:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169200100 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169205601 When I came to University of Maryland, those who are from maryland identify themselves based on the counties they are from. However some counties would be abbreviated. For example, I am from Prince Georges county, but I would say I am from PG. Those from Montgomery County would say they are from MoCo. What is interesting is that only those who are from those counties know the abbreviations. When I first heard MoCo, it took me a second to recognize what they are referring to.  

]]> 2017-05-01 15:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169205601 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169205832 I took a Criminal Justice course CCJS 100, and we came to a section where we learn about the life of prisoners in jail or in prison. I learn there is a code in which all inmates live by, and new inmates has to learn and respect these codes. Codes were made by the prisoners not the guards. I also learn that every jail has different set of codes to live by. They also so use words to mean something. For example They will say "we have a fish." The do not have a fish from the water but rather there is a new inmate, who has just been sentenced, in the jailhouse. There is also the terms Nickel and Dime which mean 5 years in prison and 10 years in prison respectively. ]]> 2017-05-01 15:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169205832 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169206040 Lime is a word that is commonly used in Trinidad and Tobago and sometimes in Guyana. The term simply means to chill or to hang out or to have a good time. One of my friends from Trinidad told me how this term came about. He said that when the Britisher were ruling the country, they would sun bathe at the beach. They rub lime all over their body as a sun block, and the chill out. They would say they were liming, and thus the term came to be. ]]> 2017-05-01 15:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169206040 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169206191 My parents are from Guyana, and the language they speak is Broken English. Based on the history of Guyana, where the British took Indians as slaves and took them to Guyana and Trinidad, the Indians kept their hindi language, and some of that language blend in with the British English.  So instead of saying grandpa and grandma, and clarifying whether it is your mother's or father's  parents, Aja, or Ajee, which is your father's father or mother. For the mother parents, we call then nana and nani. There are also names for specific aunts and uncle, your father's brother or sister and mother brother or sister. There is also names that will distinguish your father's or mother's older or younger sibling. For example, Chacha is your father's older brother and mamoo for your mother's brother. ]]> 2017-05-01 15:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169206191 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169264001 Here is where Math and English do not agree with each other again. (The Phantom Tollbooth reference). The both do agree with using the same symbol, however they are used differently. In English this symbol is called an exclamation point, which means the word(s) or sentence were shouted out loud. In math we know this as a factorial. Factorial is basically all the numbers that comes before the number that has this symbol behind it, is multiplied. so 6! will be 6*5*4*3*2*1 which equals, 720. ]]> 2017-05-01 19:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169264001 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169542657 One of my dad coworker came over to our house, and my dad was out. When my dad pulled in; he had just washed his truck, his co worker said someone "spit on the wheels." I was confuse because I thought someone literally spit on the wheels. But what he meant was that his truck was washed and is really shiny and clean. ]]> 2017-05-02 20:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169542657 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169544724 I never realize that there were different ways to say this word. Milo is a chocolate milk energy drink, and sometimes i would bring one to school to drink in the morning. One of my friend, who was familiar with the drink, called it "me-lo." I corrected him and said it was called "My-lo". We had a little argument and we found out the pronunciation is "my-lo." There was a similar conversation in the group chat for Caribbean Students Association. I learned that some caribbean say "Me-lo" and others say "my-lo". This is similar to how to pronounce tomato. ]]> 2017-05-02 20:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169544724 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169831237 Technology has advanced very quickly in the late 20th and early 21st century. Which means that most elders do not quite know a whole lot about computer. My parents being two of them. This video has a mixture of two artifacts. One is being the dialect of English that is spoken in Guyana. The other is the older actor is trying to learn how to use a laptop. As the "father"learns how to use a laptop, he learn new meaning for words he already knows. For example, he thought there was literally a mouse (a rodent) in the computer, when actually it is the object that is use to move the pointer. ]]> 2017-05-04 02:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/169831237 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/170188258 Dougla is a term that is used in the caribbean that to describe a person who is mixed with two different race. It means that someone is mixed with African and Indian descent or race. ]]> 2017-05-05 14:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/170188258 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/170188906 In this video, a girl ask if there is a way for her friends to understand the dialect of  English that Jamaicans speaks, so they can understand her father. In the Patois dialect, we tend to speak very fast, and that is where people get lost. Steve son-in-law is Jamaican so he learned how to understand the dialect. Although I have lost most of my accent due to lack of practice, I still understand the dialect if I am around people who speak it. But then my friends who do not know the dialect would be confused on what the person is trying to say. ]]> 2017-05-05 14:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/170188906 ravimuscars https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/170192007 I was listening to new music that came out, that was from Trinidad and Guyana, and I came across a video that say janjat. Janajat means trouble in Guyana. You can say " there is so much janjat in this house" ]]> 2017-05-05 14:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ravimuscars/hqcnowew0ws1/wish/170192007