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| If you speak Javanese you know what's funny with this sign. |
In linguistics, free variation is the phenomenon of two (or more) sounds or forms appearing in the same environment without a change in meaning and without being considered incorrect by native speakers. However, as for the case in the sounds [i] and [ɛ], we cannot substitute those two sounds in all words. Did you beat the drum? does not mean the same thing as Did you bet the drum?.
So this is one of my favorite recipes, squid teri-yummy (I'd rather call it teri-yummy instead of teriyaki haha). You can make your own squid teri-yummy by trying my recipe. You'd better cook it well, else it will be squid teri-yucky haha..Ingredients:
1 kg squids, take out the ink and tentacles so you will have clean meat only
5 spoons of teriyaki sauce (i use instant teriyaki sauce here)
salt, pepper, sugar
3 red chilis, cut cross wise (or you can use 1 bell pepper)
2 onion leaves, cut cross-wise
1 onion, dice
3 cloves of garlic, mash
2 spoons of vegetable oil
5 spoons of tomato ketchup
1 cup of water
Directions
Heat vegetable oil over medium-high heat in a skillet, diced onion, and then put the mashed garlic in. add the chillis.
Put the squids in. Add ketchup, teriyaki sauce, salt, pepper, and sugar. Stir thoroughly. Add water. Don't use too much water as the squids will release water. I dont really like my teri-yummy to have too much liquid in it. Wait until the mixture is perfectly cooked. Sprinkle the onion leaves before you take it out and serve it.
Now your squid teri-yummy is ready. Itadakimasu!
Mutually exclusive environment is an environment in which the first segment of the two occurs only in such and such position, but the second segment never occurs in this same position. For further explanation we can see the following example in English language:
/r/ and /l/ are separate phonemes as indicated by the minimal pairs “blew” and “brew” and also “leaf“ and “reef”.Voiceless [ r ] and [ l ] … (with open circles under are separated phonemes as indicated by minimal pairs in “ cloud” and “crowd”.
If we look at all the /l/ sounds we will see that they each have a different phonetically constrained environment, i.e they are in complementary distribution.
Velarized [ l ] occurs at the end of syllables
Voiceless [ l ] occurs after syllable initial voiceless consonants
[ l ] occurs elsewhere.
To make it easier to understand, we can use the “Clark Kent-Superman” analogy. Clark Kent and Superman are the same person, but they never appear at the same time. If Superman is present, then Clark Kent “disappears”, and vice versa. Therefore in our analogy, Superman and Clark Kent are allophones (the different realizations of phonemes in context, or variant sounds of the phonemic classes) that belong to the same person, in this case, the same phoneme.
Well yeah. I just blogged today for the national blogger's day.
Just like the famous Descartes' quote "cogito ergo sum" that means "I think, therefore I am," I would say "I blog, therefore I am" haha.
So, happy blogger's day, bloggers!
Isn't it a cool bus? San Francisco, eh?
Take a look...
No, I didn't go to San Francisco. It's just a Nusantara bus I took to Purwokerto, haha. Still wonder why they put Golden Gate bridge picture on a Semarang-Purwokerto bus...
John saw the man with a telescope.
Use it-clauses to explain the meaning, then create phrase structure trees from each it-clause.
1. It is with a telescope that John saw the man.
2. It is the man with a telescope that John saw.
Here is one of the sentences i captured: "Galaxy is a group of stars in universe that their amount is large" (Galaksi adalah kelompok bintang di jagat raya yang jumlahnya banyak). D'oh, it just sounds like word by word translation. Terrible. Next sentences sound worse and worse (sorry >_<).
Well maybe I'm just being critical, but I think they have to revise the book. I think the intention of writing a bilingual book is very good, but I think they should write it in good English and Indonesian (surely it will also make the editor or translator's job much easier, eheh).
Signs signs signs at Prambanan Temple...
Wonder why they didn't translate these signs...
I will present my thesis proposal this Saturday, July 5th. My thesis will be on Saminism in Blora. Kindof hard I think, but I still hope I can do it well.
So, goodluck Nina!
*Already did it. I did not do that well when defending my arguments...but the grade was satisfactory :D
This book is very thick. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. I have this one, the complete and unabridged version. It was recommended to me, I thought it was good so I bought it anyways. I wanted to buy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (the Indonesian version), but I eventually bought this one. I got it like two years ago, and I have never finished it since then. I probably have read one-third of the book. It is a classic novel, and I have to think twice (or maybe more) when reading it because of the language. Reading English books should be fine with me, but for classic novels, sometimes I have to read the sentences more than once or skip some words because I am lazy to look them up in dictionary, heheh. As long as I get the point, that is. Then I can enjoy it.Been two years and I don't know when I will continue it. Laziness is the thing. I have some books I haven't finished reading, among others are Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (one of the reasons I bought it was because it tells about Semarang, my city, hahah) and Kebangkitan by Leo Tolstoy (the translated version of Resurrection). Both are pretty boring I guess. But I surely want to finish reading them. I just don't know when. Oh well...
For the silence,
For all questions left unanswered,
For all problems left unsolved,
For all words left misunderstood,
For all of our empty chatters,
For the boredom of listening...
Sir,
we don't really get what you say in class....
(is it that you are too smart or we, your students, are the stupid ones?)
*dedicated to our syntax prof
I See the Light
I see the light...
I want to reach it
I see the light...
waving and blinking...
I want to come to it
I see the light...
I run to get it
I see the light...
I keep running on the cracking street
I fall once or twice but i keep running
and the light keeps waving and blinking
I still see the light...
and still i want to reach it
and run to get it...
That Man on the Street
They always look at me and shudder
as if i was a sinner
Hungry, i crawl to the trash,
as i don't have any cash
They may think that i'm sick
but i have no choice to pick
I just want my life to be better
instead of being a poor beggar
I just want a shelter
where families can get together
This isn't what i want to be
no friends, no family, no money
but why does it happen to me?
I should blame nobody
cos maybe this is my destiny
shame on me...
not the best poem i wrote i guess..but hope you enjoy it anyways :D
When you alternate between two (or more) languages during your speech with another bilingual person, that means you have code-switched. Here is one of my favorite examples of code switching (cited from http://www.apfi-pppsi.com/alihkode.html, my translation):
A: Yanis, tu veux du "gado-gado"? (1) (Yanis, would you like gado-gado?)
B: Mais oui, je veux aussi du "es dawet". Quand on travaille dur, on a toujours faim. (2) (Yes, I’d like es dawet too. When we work hard, we are always hungry.)
A: Pak Mar, tolong pesen gado-gado kalih, es dawet kalih. (3) (Pak Mar, please bring us two gado-gado and es dawet.)
C: Inggih, inggih. (4) (Alright.)
You can see speaker A changes her language from French to Javanese (in utterances 1 and 3). She speaks French when talking with her friend B because her friend knows French too, and then switches to Javanese to talk to C as C does not speak French.
As for code mixing, it occurs when you incorporate small units (words or short phrases) from one language to another one. It is often unintentional and is often in word level. You probably say or hear someone saying something like "jangan suka nge-judge gitu dong. orang kan beda-beda" (note that "judge" is the English word inserted in the Indonesian utterance). You can see that in code mixing, you don't alternate the whole sentence, but you only use one word or two. This often happens unintetionally. Sometimes you have a bunch of lexicons that get jumbled in your brain, and you often use more than one languages.
Now you can see the difference between code switching and code mixing. When you change language intentionally and you do it because of specific purposes (e.g. the presence of third person that does not share the same language, or the change of topic or situation), in other word the switch is functional, that means you code-switch. When you insert a piece of word other than that of your language, and you have no specific purpose or intention when doing that, that means you code-mix.
I have done two researches on this subject. One is on code switching in a home-office domain, the other is on code switching in a mailing list forum. Pretty interesting :D.
Yippee!! I finally managed to go on vacation!! I went to Karimunjawa island last weekend (December 22nd-24th, 2007) with Nining, Mbak Yuli, Ahmed, Yudi, and Hatta. It was really awesome (but not my sea sick part when we got back to Semarang of course..haha). We left for Karimunjawa from Semarang port, Tanjung Emas, by KMC Kartini (a speed boat). It was a nice trip, but I spent most of my time sleeping...haha. Terrible, but I didn't want to get sick in the boat, heheh.You can't say you have visited Karimunjawa if you don't try snorkeling and see the coral reef. So I tried though I couldn't even swim, hahah. I was terrible in the water, but it was fun though. You could also take a glass bottom boat to see the underwater coral reef and other marine life. It looked really awesome! I kept looking for Spongebob and friends, hahah. It was raining when we were on the boat and did the snorkeling thing, but the water was pretty warm when we swam, so it wasn't that bad. Then we went to this shark breeding or hatchery (or whatever the name is), played with the sharks some (and they were all tame, at least no one got bitten, haha). I didn't swim with the sharks though, but I would surely love to next time. Other thing we did was walking on the beach.. something like that. I looked for hermit crabs but I didn't find any. But I did get some cool shells, heheh.
We should have got back to Semarang on Sunday 23rd, but the wind was too strong and the weather was so bad that the boat were not allowed to sail (wave was 5 meters high they said). So we decided to go back to the homestay and spent one more night there. I think in May-August the weather is good, so it will be a good time to visit. Sun shines and all that.
I think there are still more to explore in the Karimunjawa islands. I only visited two of them. The biggest ones I think. Still would like to see the other spots of course. There has to be Advanced Karimunjawa, hahaha. If I even failed in this introduction course I wouldn't mind repeating it another time...hahahah.
Here are some pictures I took. Better pictures are from my friends' camera, but they haven't uploaded them. Will upload some more later.
PS: I have added some pictures from Ahmed and Nining's camera.
Huts on the sea
Stranded
Hail to the sea, Nining
On becak
White sand
Poker night
Yep, work harder, read more, do things you have to do, meet the deadlines on time...
Stop slacking off too much Nina...
I went to Kendal (a city near Semarang) with my sister, uncle, and cousin to see these waterfalls. The first one, Curug Sewu (curug = waterfall, sewu = 1000, so 1000 waterfalls?? doesn't make sense after you see the place, hahah), wasn't so cool. The water looked muddy so we didn't go down to see it. Then we went to the other place, in Gonoharjo. There was this hot spring and then you could see waterfalls if you would hike. I had to struggle (plus I was hungry) to get to the top just to see the small waterfall..haha. I wanted to give up before getting there, but it didn't seem worth it because it was already too far to go down. Well, at least I did some exercise...hahaha. Here are the pictures:
This tree was near the hot spring. No reason for taking this picture. It just looked huge and cool.
The path to achievement...heheh..
Dear dad,
I am sick of that rat
squeaking every night
it is really annoying like a brat
it even knows the trap you set
Dear dad,
why don't you allow us to have a cat?
at least it can chase that rat
and won't make us mad
and will stop us from complaining about that
Dear dad,
that rat is damn smart
what a little bastard...
Another silly rhyming poem..haha...
I was sitting here in front of my computer, working and listening to music..well, and chatting with my friends and colleagues online (heheh). Suddenly this strong wind blew, I thought that was just a common wind, I mean, won't cause damage. But it blew stronger and suddenly blew off the roof in the dining room behind me. That was crazy. I was surprised and thought my computer was going to explode..haha...
This is what the roof looks like now:
And this:
My uncle is fixing it now. Open for help and donation anyways...hahaha...kidding :p.
PS: not sure if it was really 5 seconds...it was so quick.