“The Miami dialect is not a second-language accent, like you’d hear from a Cuban immigrant whose first language is Spanish. It is an American English dialect … spoken by native-born Americans. Which doesn’t stop the accent from seeming foreign to others: [FIU linguist Phillip] Carter says that his students will sometimes find themselves in a neighboring county, only to be asked what country they’re from.” Dan Nosowitz looks at the ingredients in this sancocho of speech patterns.
Tag: 04.04.17
Is A Free, Open, Borderless Internet Too Dangerous – To Itself And To Us?
In 2010, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a major address on the worldwide importance of an “internet freedom agenda”; in 2017, one could forgive her for being a bit ambivalent about that. “The internet freedom agenda presumed the benefits of the free flow of information only cut one way: in favor of open societies, values, and ideals. But we’re now seeing that its destabilizing effects cut both ways. And that doesn’t bode well for the borderless internet we enjoy today.” Ben Moskowitz considers the pros and cons.
Stolen Normal Rockwell Painting, Now Worth $1 Million, Returned After 40 Years
The 1919 oil-on-canvas work, known variously as Boy Asleep with Hoe, Taking a Break, and Lazybones, was stolen from the front hall of a Cherry Hill, NJ family home in 1976.
It *Is* Possible To Have Too Much Passion For Your Work
“Employees who treat their work as a calling risk burnout and discouragement, and are at risks of abandoning their profession, according to a [new research] paper.” (The study didn’t involve arts workers, though: it used employees at animal shelters.)
Micro-Theatre Is The Hot New Thing All Over The Spanish-Speaking World
It all started with the Micro Teatro Por Dinero in Madrid in 2009: ten-minute plays performed in very close quarters at three euros a ticket. (It was the start of the financial crisis.) “[Now] the Micro Teatro Por Dinero franchise has been sold to venues in 15 different cities around the globe, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Lima, Lebanon, even Miami.”
The Rise Of High-End TV Festivals (Makes Sense, Right, Now That TV Beats Movies)
“The French government raised eyebrows recently when it decided to back the creation of a large-scale international drama fest in Northern France’s Lille, which it wants to become the TV counterpart of the iconic Cannes Film Festival. The announcement came as city officials in Cannes itself said they would create their own rival international drama festival to run alongside MipTV.”
A Million People Have Moved Out Of New York City Since 2010 (Only Half The Story)
“Net domestic migration to New York City metro area (which includes the five boroughs plus slivers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania) is down by a whopping 900,000 people since 2010. That means that, since 2010, almost a million more people have left New York for somewhere else in America than have moved to New York from another U.S. metro—more than any other metro in the country. This is the “fleeing” that the Post finds so “alarming.” But the New York metro has also netted about 850,000 international migrants since 2010. That number is also tops among all metros—more than Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, combined. So, that’s the story of New York City, today.”
Does Banning Cultural Appropriation Lead To A Dead End?
“Should an artist be prohibited from painting certain subjects because of her background, and what happens to the fluidity of culture if artists are fenced-in by their identities and ethnicities? Does perceived injustice resulting from the appropriation of black suffering justify censorship? Or is the destruction of art fundamentally illiberal?”
Can The Arts Bring People Together In Areas Of Conflict?
“There is currently a rise in interest in the work of artists in areas of conflict. This work runs the risk of ascribing too much power to art, whereby it is seen as a potential panacea to the ills of the world.”
The (Surprisingly Complicated) History Of Catalog Cards At The Library Of Congress
“Librarians spent decades figuring out how to best organize its constantly growing collections, which would render systems dated as their contents reflected new industries, and thus required new vocabularies. Heads butt over how to organize the stacks; casual rivalries even arose between librarians who had different visions.”