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Sunday 23 March 2014
Saturday 15 March 2014
Ghost Site Blues.
There's a certain feeling you get when you look at an abandoned website - a feeling of disconcertment, and incompleteness. It also feels a bit rude and intrusive, as if you're looking at something that was meant to be left alone. It's like looking at a half finished painting, a work in progress, that's somehow stuck in an artist's creative limbo.
You don't know what happened, but you can see the result of it. It's like a virtual capture, a snapshot of a moment in time - thoughts, musings intact, patterned and textured by that moment's thought process. News, frozen, opinions, half formed and brashly said... And you, you can see, from your vantage point, how they stack up to your present reality and if they were of any consequence at all.
In a way it's sad, you almost wish you could reach out and tell them how things ended up turning out, as if they're still stuck on the other side, oblivious, when in fact they're as much in the present as you are. On one level, you're aware of that fact, but you still have this feeling of shouting out and saying, "Hey! I know the answer to that one! You're wrong!".
My theory is that calling out a person on their hindsight, a sort of 'virtual schadenfreude', is the main drive for these feelings.
On the other hand, to put it optimistically, I think that we like to tell people that it's alright, it turned out fine in the end.
You don't know what happened, but you can see the result of it. It's like a virtual capture, a snapshot of a moment in time - thoughts, musings intact, patterned and textured by that moment's thought process. News, frozen, opinions, half formed and brashly said... And you, you can see, from your vantage point, how they stack up to your present reality and if they were of any consequence at all.
In a way it's sad, you almost wish you could reach out and tell them how things ended up turning out, as if they're still stuck on the other side, oblivious, when in fact they're as much in the present as you are. On one level, you're aware of that fact, but you still have this feeling of shouting out and saying, "Hey! I know the answer to that one! You're wrong!".
My theory is that calling out a person on their hindsight, a sort of 'virtual schadenfreude', is the main drive for these feelings.
On the other hand, to put it optimistically, I think that we like to tell people that it's alright, it turned out fine in the end.
Saturday 1 March 2014
English in Africa
This is gonna be a short post, where I put up a link I found online and don't say more than a paragraph about it.
I think it's interesting that in many African countries, English has become so prominent, both officially and colloquially. However, outside Africa, I'm yet to encounter any media/cultural stuff in African English, beyond music (even that stuff is a bit niche/not as well known). Maybe, along with Indian English, African English will become more prominent in the Anglosphere - part of a sorta 'third wave English', as I call it (The 'first wave' being British, second and current being American). I can already feel a distinct and more cohesive Indian English identity, language and feel. It's got media, songs, and even movie bits in it now. It can only get better. I'm assuming it's something similar with African English as well.
I think it's interesting that in many African countries, English has become so prominent, both officially and colloquially. However, outside Africa, I'm yet to encounter any media/cultural stuff in African English, beyond music (even that stuff is a bit niche/not as well known). Maybe, along with Indian English, African English will become more prominent in the Anglosphere - part of a sorta 'third wave English', as I call it (The 'first wave' being British, second and current being American). I can already feel a distinct and more cohesive Indian English identity, language and feel. It's got media, songs, and even movie bits in it now. It can only get better. I'm assuming it's something similar with African English as well.
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