Hey, all…
I’d like to ask you a question:
If a person uses “aks” instead of “ask” or says something to the effect of “I be going to the store now” how does that influence your perception of that person?  What would you think of them?
Thanks!

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Hey, all…
I’d like to ask you a question:
If a person uses “aks” instead of “ask” or says something to the effect
of “I be going to the store now” how does that influence your
perception of that person? What would you think of them?
Thanks!

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The paper is going well.  It’s going to be about 20 pages, I think.  Ack!
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A list of wants…

I want to ride a bicycle built for two with someone I love.
I want to slow dance, in our living room, to a song that means something only to us.
I want to [...]

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The paper is going well. It’s going to be about 20 pages, I think. Ack!
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A list of wants…

I want to ride a bicycle built for two with someone I love.
I want to slow dance, in our living room, to a song that means something only to us.
I want to be handed a warm [...]

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I’m not writing well, I’m not responding well…but I’m thinking.
As I said, school is kicking my butt.  I will get back here soon.  Besides, I want to share my final paper in linguistics with y’all (that’s for my southern friends…;-)  - I think southern accents are beautiful!).  My final paper is on language and [...]

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I’m not writing well, I’m not responding well…but I’m thinking.
As I said, school is kicking my butt. I will get back here soon. Besides, I want to share my final paper in linguistics with y’all (that’s for my southern friends… - I think southern accents are beautiful!). My final paper is [...]

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School is kicking my butt.  I know I should expect this at the senior level but really…it’s kicking my butt.
Tonight I have to do a presentation on one of the chapters in our linguistics book:  media bias in language.
Have you evern thought about how the media actually directs us on proper language [...]

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School is kicking my butt. I know I should expect this at the senior level but really…it’s kicking my butt.
Tonight I have to do a presentation on one of the chapters in our linguistics book: media bias in language.
Have you ever thought about how the media actually directs us on proper language use? [...]

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I wrote this for another site but thought I’d share it with y’all.  I will be posting some things about Philadelphia in the next few days.  My computer at home was down and I needed a faster connection to upload images.
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Katherine was born in 1920 exactly a month before the 19th Amendment, giving women [...]

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Katherine was born in 1920 exactly a month before the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was adopted. When she was 8 years old, in 1929, she witnessed a crime that would change her life drastically.
Her father, from Chicago, had married a mail-order bride from Salt Lake City. Together, they moved to the [...]

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