Carl's Corner :)

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Beliria wrote: I need food!

And I need sleep - later.

and

must use a computer to work them out I reckon - and happy eating Bel and goodnight Ron

they are very clever

ah, sidewalk chalk art, great stuff

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ronviers wrote: Quote Carl wrote: yep just slang What does that mean?

[edit] Defining slang
Few linguists have endeavoured to clearly define what constitutes slang.[1] Attempting to remedy this, Bethany K. Dumas and Jonathan Lighter argue that an expression should be considered "true slang" if it meets at least two of the following criteria:

It lowers, if temporarily, "the dignity of formal or serious speech or writing"; in other words, it is likely to be seen in such contexts as a "glaring misuse of register."
Its use implies that the user is familiar with whatever is referred to, or with a group of people that are familiar with it and use the term.
"It is a taboo term in ordinary discourse with people of a higher social status or greater responsibility."
It replaces "a well known conventional synonym." This is done primarily to avoid "the discomfort caused by the conventional item [or by] further elaboration."[1]
Slang should be distinguished from jargon, which is the technical vocabulary of a particular profession. Jargon, like many examples of slang, may on occasion be used to exclude non-group members from the conversation, but in general has the function of allowing its users to talk precisely about technical issues in a given field.

( Who you talking to ) is also a famous slang sentence used and created by Paul Henderson


[edit] Extent and origins of slang
Slang is sometimes regional in that it is used only in a particular territory, such as California, but slang terms are frequently particular to a certain subculture, such as musicians. Nevertheless, slang expressions can spread outside their original areas to become commonly used, like "cool" and "jive". While some words eventually lose their status as slang, others continue to be considered as such by most speakers. When slang spreads beyond the group or subculture that originally uses it, its original users often replace it with other, less-recognized terms to maintain group identity.

One use of slang is to circumvent social taboos, as mainstream language tends to shy away from evoking certain realities. For this reason, slang vocabularies are particularly rich in certain domains, such as violence, crime, drugs, and sex. Alternatively, slang can grow out of mere familiarity with the things described. Among Californian wine connoisseurs, for example, Cabernet Sauvignon is often known as "Cab Sav", Chardonnay as "Chard" and so on;[2] this means that naming the different wines expends less superfluous effort.

Even within a single language community, slang tends to vary widely across social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata. Slang may fall into disuse over time; sometimes, however, it grows more and more common until it becomes the dominant way of saying something, at which time it usually comes to be regarded as mainstream, acceptable language (e.g. the Spanish word caballo), although in the case of taboo words there may be no expression that is considered mainstream or acceptable. Numerous slang terms pass into informal mainstream speech, and sometimes into formal speech, though this may involve a change in meaning or usage.

Slang very often involves the creation of novel meanings for existing words. It is very common for such novel meanings to diverge significantly from the standard meaning. Thus, "cool" and "hot" can both mean "very good", "impressive" or "good looking".

Slang terms are often known only within a clique or ingroup. For example, Leet ("Leetspeak" or "1337"), was originally popular only among certain Internet sub-cultures, such as crackers (malicious "hackers") and online video gamers. During the 1990s and 2000s, however, Leet became increasingly more commonplace on the Internet, and has even spread outside of Internet-based communication and into spoken languages.[3] Other types of slang include SMS language used on mobile phones, and "chatspeak", which is widely used in instant messaging on the Internet.


[edit] Distinction between slang and colloquialisms
Some linguists make a distinction between slangisms (slang words) and colloquialisms. According to Ghil'ad Zuckermann, "slang refers to informal (and often transient) lexical items used by a specific social group, for instance teenagers, soldiers, prisoners and thieves. Slang is not the same as colloquial (speech), which is informal, relaxed speech used on occasion by any speaker; this might include contractions such as you’re, as well as colloquialisms. A colloquialism is a lexical item used in informal speech; whilst the broadest sense of the term ‘colloquialism’ might include slangism, its narrow sense does not. Slangisms are often used in colloquial speech but not all colloquialisms are slangisms. One method of distinguishing between a slangism and a colloquialism is to ask whether most native speakers know the word (and use it); if they do, it is a colloquialism. However, the problem is that this is not a discrete, quantized system but a continuum. Although the majority of slangisms are ephemeral and often supplanted by new ones, some gain non-slang colloquial status (e.g. English silly – cf. German selig ‘blessed’, Middle High German sælde ‘bliss, luck’ and Zelda, a Jewish female first name) and even formal status (e.g. English mob)."[4]

aaiight!: All Right! Used in times of intense emotion. Example: Dad: Son, get in there and clean your room. Son: Aaiight!

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StevieJ wrote: Is that you in those pics.....the girl holding the glass of orange juice???

Trust you to notice the girl and no, I'm a boy your cross dressing is starting to confuse you LOL

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ronviers wrote: Quote Carl wrote: yep just slang What does that mean?

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ronviers wrote: I never asked what slang was. You just came up with that right out of the blue.

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Carl wrote: Quote ronviers wrote: What kind do you smoke? rollies

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Carl wrote: Quote ronviers wrote: are they the kind you roll yourself? yep just slang

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ronviers wrote: I've got chicken legs, a watermellon head and a potbelly

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

I found this photo of you

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ronviers wrote: garage sales. Do you have those?

yep sure garage sales we also have car boot sales, are you looking for anything in particular

Gotta run - bbl

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Carl wrote: are you looking for anything in particular

I was looking for candles and blankets. I found a two comforters, two sets of sheets and a bedspread - now I'm all ready for winter. I only found one crappy candle and six votive candles but it was a pretty good outing.

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ronviers wrote: I think I will let Beliria explain that one to you.

Am sure Carl can find the answer for himself


So out of curiosity is page 161 dead to us?

Hey guys

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ronviers wrote: How many weeks of your Xenodream classes? Are you considering enrolling in anything after it ends?

+2 ???

Ron, how are those Maya tutorial DVDs???

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StevieJ wrote: how are those Maya tutorial DVDs?

Too soon to tell. They arrived but I have had too much going on to get started. I will let you know once I get far enough in to have an opinion.
How is trueSpace coming along? Have you purchased V-Ray yet?

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Beliria wrote: There's 3 sites I was told are good for learning online

Here are some of the courses I was looking at. They are 110usd/class. That's about twice as much as the individual training DVDs I ended up purchasing. Besides, since I only have a dial-up connection to the internet I thought I might have a problem.

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Beliria wrote: about 10 dead pages so that's not bad from 162.. pretty good percentages

Ok, but I am officially putting page 162 on notice because it has the ugly picture of me at the top.

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Beliria wrote: then finding out I'ld rather have got Vue 6 instead

I hear lots of good things about Vue

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Beliria wrote: I wont be re-subscribing to that one.

Me either - not after reading part 3.

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Beliria wrote: made a Redbubble.com

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Beliria wrote: Made a new zazzle acount

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Beliria wrote: having fun with Terrage

You sure have been busy lately. How is your SL store coming along?

I used to love garage sales and going to thrift shops. I have begun going to thrift shops again.

Why is jacking off mentioned in this thread? Did I miss something here? ... ...

I like the chalk drawings; seen them a year or two ago. I also like the sand castle art. Want me to post some?

I get new glasses next month and maybe cataract surgery and then I can join some of you with the other programs. I miss doing art and filters, but when everything is a blur...oh well.

Vue was used for POTC 2? I would have thought they could afford the expensive programs.

Too many pics to post, but go here and check them all out. http://www.greatervancouverparks.com/...les01.html

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Carl wrote: it was what Ron

No

At Saint Paul (where I used to live) they have an annual ice carnival. They also love to carve things out of butter.

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ahimsa wrote: Vue was used for POTC 2? I would have thought they could afford the expensive programs

yes