The Wiki article on Pacific Northwest English is a bit more detailed. I think the creaky voice is distinct from fry; notice the latter has an article of its own, linked to on the CV page.
I grew up in eastern Oregon; a friend of mine is endlessly amused by my pronunciation of "both," spelled b-o-w-l-t-h. Says he hears this in the speech of various natives, including Kurt Cobain. This doesn't seem to be covered in the wiki article I linked to, nor do I remember it mentioned in other pieces on native dialect. Said friend hails from PA and has his mother's very strong Long Island accent so the derision is mutual.
My rather harsh, low pitched and nasal accent is something else I hear in other people from east of the Cascades. It seems beyond "creaky" to me.
Found a whole book on this topic: Earthquakes and animals: from folk legends to science, By M. Ikeya (Google Books). Studies going back to at least 1923 are found via Google Scholar. I'd be all in favor of studies which would figure out what mechanisms are involved here; we in the Pacific NW of the US are due for a real monster of a subduction quake someday, the hardship and loss of life will be quite extreme, and some advance notice would be welcome, to say the least.
Of course, test it out in some region which is prone to frequent minor quakes. And hope that it works in a region like ours, with very strong temblors happening about every half millennium. I'd assume it would, as Japanese quakes are also brought on by subduction; or is that only the case with the very strong ones?
Manos has a certain ineluctable quality to it, too. They were actually reluctant to do it on MST3K at first, thinking it unworkable. They show their reaction to this in various ways, like how Tom remarks "So, what, are we about half an hour into this movie?" after the initial 3 minutes of non-sequitor shots taken from a moving car. You feel a bit warped watching it, somehow, with the bad print, the lack of long duration shots, the sleaze, the fever dream feel of it all, the repellent aspects.
To be sure there are no end of movies that lack any redeeming qualities, including that of being laughable.
The North American giant short-faced bear, Arctodus simus, was actually larger, from what I've gathered, and went extinct only 11kya. Maybe it couldn't have bit through a fire hydrant but a 3.5k lb bear 6 ft high at the snout is crazy enough for me.
Your post gives me an idea - how about an analog timepiece where you can set the closing time of your job at whatever spot you want, to convey that sense of a quantity dispersing?
Just this week I've begun a daily regimen of swimming laps at the pool, and want to pick up an inexpensive watch with an alarm function, so I can know when I've been flailing about for a set amount of time. They make innumerable models that count laps etc but I think I still have enough processing power in the ol' noggin for that. Still nice to know all these bells and whistles are there to be had if so desired. I'm quite nearsighted and can't even tell if there's a clock on the wall at the pool...have a bad habit of checking the time on a constant basis with the cheapy watch I do own, so an alarm function will help me out in this instance quite a bit.
One funny thing about digital watches is the persistence of the classic LED/"Digital" typeface for the display; there are exceptions but they're quite in the minority, and most digitals still sport the same old blocky font - which Wiki says was based in turn on a clock developed for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, of all things. "Your break time's over, Dave."
That, along with the tags on the samples, makes me think this is just a gag. Pardon the pun.;) It was like a nerdy take on a John Waters film, kind of.
Well, there's fully accredited librarians and then the pages who do the actual grunt work of checking in/checking out/shelving/straightening/etc. I used to do page work and it was great fun. Didn't expect it to be rendered obsolete by machines so soon, although how many libraries out of the total are actually employing this kind of tech?
Agree that it's great to just peruse the collection in person instead of selecting things from a monitor, too.
I also like "It's best to start the tsunami a few kilometers from the shore." This in reference to the tsunami not reaching Aberdeen Washington, no matter where I start them from. Maybe the coders are into Nirvana?
Would help to add a scale so we can figure how much map covers those few kms, too...
OK, after looking at the Gallery I think they meant meters, not kilometers - you doubleclick right offshore to mark where, uh, the news crews will congregate? Wave fronts are a bit more diffuse than that, I believe.
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This fellow definitely built an ElectriClerk, for use in a Cthulhu themed live-action roleplaying game. Hrmm, is it wise to shake down an Elder God for its 27B-6? Other bloggers just seem to be linking to his work. Besides your man can't find any more Brazil inspired SP mods. Perhaps it's just too much work.
You would have to have non-anachronistic material holding the bridge of your glasses/goggles/pince-nez together. No adhesive tape; gutta percha dosed with hide glue?
Would like to know more about Tragic Hipsters, too. Google Images shows the cover of a Nick Drake LP. Weren't the Tragically Hip an 80s indie band?
MST3K left the Mad Max franchise alone for two reasons: Mad Mel and the attendant price he brings, and the fact that they're well made films. They did cover films of that ilk, some of them being eye-poppingly awful. Agree that the 2nd MM movie was woefully short on details of how people are surviving - food sources depicted amounted to that tin of dog food and chickens in the refinery camp's yard. Wasn't an issue in the 1st, was better detailed in the 3rd.
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You caught the part about how the book is set over 2000 years in the future, right?
Admittedly I felt a bit dizzy reading it myself. Maybe chasing it with Beowulf you'd feel normal?
The Wiki article on Pacific Northwest English is a bit more detailed. I think the creaky voice is distinct from fry; notice the latter has an article of its own, linked to on the CV page.
I grew up in eastern Oregon; a friend of mine is endlessly amused by my pronunciation of "both," spelled b-o-w-l-t-h. Says he hears this in the speech of various natives, including Kurt Cobain. This doesn't seem to be covered in the wiki article I linked to, nor do I remember it mentioned in other pieces on native dialect. Said friend hails from PA and has his mother's very strong Long Island accent so the derision is mutual.
My rather harsh, low pitched and nasal accent is something else I hear in other people from east of the Cascades. It seems beyond "creaky" to me.
Found a whole book on this topic: Earthquakes and animals: from folk legends to science, By M. Ikeya (Google Books). Studies going back to at least 1923 are found via Google Scholar. I'd be all in favor of studies which would figure out what mechanisms are involved here; we in the Pacific NW of the US are due for a real monster of a subduction quake someday, the hardship and loss of life will be quite extreme, and some advance notice would be welcome, to say the least.
Of course, test it out in some region which is prone to frequent minor quakes. And hope that it works in a region like ours, with very strong temblors happening about every half millennium. I'd assume it would, as Japanese quakes are also brought on by subduction; or is that only the case with the very strong ones?
Manos has a certain ineluctable quality to it, too. They were actually reluctant to do it on MST3K at first, thinking it unworkable. They show their reaction to this in various ways, like how Tom remarks "So, what, are we about half an hour into this movie?" after the initial 3 minutes of non-sequitor shots taken from a moving car. You feel a bit warped watching it, somehow, with the bad print, the lack of long duration shots, the sleaze, the fever dream feel of it all, the repellent aspects.
To be sure there are no end of movies that lack any redeeming qualities, including that of being laughable.
Say, you know it's been two hours but it's still kinda warm!
Here are some coupons. The Master said you could have them, but I'm giving them to you!
There were zwei peanuts, walking down the strasse, und one was 'assaulted'... peanut.
Sounds like Hermano is about to get his ass kicked.
Would a SAM work in the absence of air?
The North American giant short-faced bear, Arctodus simus, was actually larger, from what I've gathered, and went extinct only 11kya. Maybe it couldn't have bit through a fire hydrant but a 3.5k lb bear 6 ft high at the snout is crazy enough for me.
Nice. But does it top Music from Some Guys in Space?
Fun fact: in the late 80s various members of the Seattle grunge rock scene had day jobs in, of all places, Muzak.
Your post gives me an idea - how about an analog timepiece where you can set the closing time of your job at whatever spot you want, to convey that sense of a quantity dispersing?
Just this week I've begun a daily regimen of swimming laps at the pool, and want to pick up an inexpensive watch with an alarm function, so I can know when I've been flailing about for a set amount of time. They make innumerable models that count laps etc but I think I still have enough processing power in the ol' noggin for that. Still nice to know all these bells and whistles are there to be had if so desired. I'm quite nearsighted and can't even tell if there's a clock on the wall at the pool...have a bad habit of checking the time on a constant basis with the cheapy watch I do own, so an alarm function will help me out in this instance quite a bit.
One funny thing about digital watches is the persistence of the classic LED/"Digital" typeface for the display; there are exceptions but they're quite in the minority, and most digitals still sport the same old blocky font - which Wiki says was based in turn on a clock developed for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, of all things. "Your break time's over, Dave."
Huh, David Cross was in that? Did he play an analrapist?
That, along with the tags on the samples, makes me think this is just a gag. Pardon the pun. ;) It was like a nerdy take on a John Waters film, kind of.
Well, there's fully accredited librarians and then the pages who do the actual grunt work of checking in/checking out/shelving/straightening/etc. I used to do page work and it was great fun. Didn't expect it to be rendered obsolete by machines so soon, although how many libraries out of the total are actually employing this kind of tech?
Agree that it's great to just peruse the collection in person instead of selecting things from a monitor, too.
Ich für meinen Teil begrüße unsere neuen Robotik Oberherren.
I also like "It's best to start the tsunami a few kilometers from the shore." This in reference to the tsunami not reaching Aberdeen Washington, no matter where I start them from. Maybe the coders are into Nirvana?
Would help to add a scale so we can figure how much map covers those few kms, too...
OK, after looking at the Gallery I think they meant meters, not kilometers - you doubleclick right offshore to mark where, uh, the news crews will congregate? Wave fronts are a bit more diffuse than that, I believe.
World GPS Market Forecast to 2013 by RNCOS in Global, Global Positioning Systems, Satellites & Space
This fellow definitely built an ElectriClerk, for use in a Cthulhu themed live-action roleplaying game. Hrmm, is it wise to shake down an Elder God for its 27B-6? Other bloggers just seem to be linking to his work. Besides your man can't find any more Brazil inspired SP mods. Perhaps it's just too much work.
"Typewrither" sounds like something out of Naked Lunch.
You would have to have non-anachronistic material holding the bridge of your glasses/goggles/pince-nez together. No adhesive tape; gutta percha dosed with hide glue?
Would like to know more about Tragic Hipsters, too. Google Images shows the cover of a Nick Drake LP. Weren't the Tragically Hip an 80s indie band?
You're obviously not a geologist. Although even they'll have to have something to do en route.
MST3K left the Mad Max franchise alone for two reasons: Mad Mel and the attendant price he brings, and the fact that they're well made films. They did cover films of that ilk, some of them being eye-poppingly awful. Agree that the 2nd MM movie was woefully short on details of how people are surviving - food sources depicted amounted to that tin of dog food and chickens in the refinery camp's yard. Wasn't an issue in the 1st, was better detailed in the 3rd.
As is the case with about 95% of what's on TV my only exposure to nightmares such as you describe is via The Soup.