Version vom 4. Oktober 2010, 10:35 Uhr

About me

• I'm 17 years old
• I live in Haßfurt
• My intensive courses are English and Latin

What Americans expect from Obama

1.http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGEyN2JjYWVjZTAxNWVlMmVhNGU3NmUyNTQwYTJhNzI=

2.http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=60353

Thoughts on the election In Germany

• Just 70.78% voters participation is a shame
• Election was very unspectacular

What Republicans think of Obama

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102663.html

Estuary Englisch

Definition

An accent used by many speakers of various social classes in southeastern England, characterized by a mixture of features drawn from middle-class and working-class speech.

special sounds

• Use of intrusive R.
• A broad A (ɑː) in words such as bath, grass, laugh, etc. This is often seen as the litmus test of a South-East accent, but it has only spread to rural areas of the south-east in the last forty years.
• T-glottalisation, i.e., using some glottal stops: that is, "t" is sounded as a glottal occlusion instead of being fully pronounced when it occurs before a consonant or at the end of words, as in "eight" or "McCartney" and it can also occur between vowels, as in Cockney or southern dialects e.g. "water" (pronounced as [wɔːʔə])
• Yod-coalescence, i.e., the use of the affricates /ʤ/ and /ʧ/ instead of the clusters /dj/ and /tj/ in words like "dune" and "tune".
• Diphthong shifts, e.g., the diphthong in words like "I" becomes [ɑɪ], the diphthong in words like "brown" becomes [æʊ], and the diphthong in words like "face" becomes [ɛɪ], [ɐɪ], [ʌɪ], or [æɪ]
• L-vocalisation, i.e., the use of [o] where RP uses [ɫ] in the final positions or in a final consonant cluster.
• Use of confrontational question tags. For example, "We're going later, aren't we?", "I said that, didn't I?"
• Th-fronting, i.e., replacement of [θ, ð] with [f, v] (e.g. [fɪŋk] for think)
• H-dropping, i.e., Dropping [h] in stressed words (e.g. [æʔ] for hat)
• Double negation. However, Estuary English may use "never" in case where "not" would be the Standard. For example, "he did not" [in reference to a single occasion] might become "he never did".
• Replacement of an /r/ with a /w/ is not found in Estuary, and is also very much in decline amongst Cockney speakers

Metaphors

• You are a knife in my stomach --> painful, dangerous
• You are a gazelle --> graceful
• You are the light in my life --> hope and happiness
• You are my heart --> the essential thing

Advertisment

The advert for Leroy Merlin's do it yourself shop shows an attractive, thin and curtly dressed woman having sex with an electrician. A man, probably her husband, is coming in and looks very shocked by catching his wife out. In comparison with the musculous electricion he looks rather soft and narrow - minded. There is also a slogan in the left corner saying: "You'd better do it yourself." The message of the advert is that men should do the work at home by themselves since otherwise their wives will cheat on them. Consequently the target group of the advert are men, probably business men not spending much time on working at home. Their attention is attracted by the attractive woman passionately having sex. But when they see the horrified facial expression of her husband maybe they get scared and will no longer pay for electricions but do all the work by themselves and buy things at Leroy Merlin.

University Life and Academical System

Life in the USA vs. Life in Britain