Today taking a selfie is the most important thing to do during the day. We take while we eat or do something, we make the duck face or simply a normal. The origins of the selfie go back to 2003 when Myspace was the new thing and for people to see who they were. Talking to put a picture of them as a profile pictures.
Sangduen Chailert founded "the elephant nature park" in northern Thailand. The dwindling elephant population is a world-wide concern and Chailert is the thick of saving them in her country. She campaigns against "crushing", the stabbing, beating, and starving that handlers do in order to "tame" on elephant. The park have been subject to harassment, raids etc. In 2012 the park were interrogated for over 13 hours by dozens of armed officials investigating an "anonymous" complaint that 70 wild elephant were being abused there. But Chailert continues to speak out about the elephant ans she said "we will do whatever possible to protect our elephant".
Do these linguistic modifications simply reflect the gradual evolution of the English language? No one, knows for sure, but one things is certain: political correctness is the latest trend in United States in linguistic etiquette. The recent publication of THE OFFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT DICTIONARY AND HANDBOOK has caused linguists and laymen alike to re-examine their everyday speech. As defined in this dictionary/handbook, the term "politically correct" or "appropriately inclusive". The aim of this book is to create awareness of the latent offensiveness, sexism or stereotyping in many of the things we say. For example, the criticism of the term "maiden name" used when referring to a women's name before marriage. The term "artificial" and "synthetic" are offered as more accurate replacement for "man-made". THE OFFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT DICTIONARY AND HANDBOOK also attempts to deal linguistically with some disturbing contemporary realities. Rather than calling someone inflicted with the AIDS disease an AIDS victim, for example, the dictionary suggests that these individuals be labeled "person living with AIDS". Despite such valid linguistic proposals, however, this dictionary/handbook id replete with examples of unadulterated silliness. Pictured are an average-looking white man and woman. According to politically correct lingo, the woman should be classified as a "womon survivor". The man, bald and bespectacled, falls into these categories: "hair disadvantaged". The basic premise underlying this handbook, as is true of many contemporary linguistic guides, is that language does not simply mirror society, constructs our perception of everyday reality.
The old adage,"It's not what say, but how you say it", seems to be enjoying its last days in the English language.
This article tells about British Phone Box. Over the years the red telephone box has become a symbol of British life: it is loved both by tourists and by collectors from all over the world. The first red telephone box the K1 appeared in 1920. In 1924 the Post Office held a competition to design a replacement for it. It was won by the famous architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and over the next few years Sir Giles produced more models like K2, K3 and K5, but the K6 was created for King George in 1935, and today there are K6. These famous red phone boxes are disappearing from our streets but during the last five years calls from pay phone have dropped. The British Telecom realise that people love the K6 and it has organised some original projects to save it. More than 1,500 boxes have been transformed into art galleries, information centres, public libraries, showers and even toilets. The K6 is also symbol of London and this summer at least 80 kiosks in the capital underwent a make-over. The designs included a sofa, a "Big Ben" phone box and a wholly knitted kiosk. They were displayed on the streets of London for one month and then auctioned of at Sotheby's.
This article tells about Leo Castelli
and Pop Art.
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If New York is the world capital of art, then it probably owes this to one man: Leo Casteli. Castelli, an Italian who reached New York by way of Paris and opened the first art gallery. In 2007 was the centenary of his birthday. For this Alan Jones has written a biography of Leo Castelli and he said:" Leo Castelli come to America in that great flood of migration, of refugees, during World War or before World War Two. He was born in Trieste and he going from Trieste to Romania and opening his first gallery. Leo Castelli who was truly the man who discovered pop art." In actual fact pop art was only one of the movements discovered by Castelli. Others include Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, Minimal Art and Conceptual Art. Castelli was to die in 1999, a few weeks before is 92nd birthday. Alan Jones said:" Leo Castelli was one extremely elegant man, and he was very formal, very lucid, he spoke beautiful English. He was representing all of these crazy this impeccable Triestine doing rather from the 1903s and so elegant and so attentive and puntual. A mwen who was a great lover of beauty, not only in art, but also in beautiful young women." Also Gillo Dorfles has said:" Leo Castelli was a truly elegant man, almost too well-dressed."
and Pop Art.
