Version vom 23. März 2010, 11:57 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