{"id":213300,"date":"2014-05-03T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T10:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/03\/professorfangirl-fuckyeahrichardiii\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T22:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:15:50","slug":"professorfangirl-fuckyeahrichardiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/03\/professorfangirl-fuckyeahrichardiii\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-213300 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/03\/professorfangirl-fuckyeahrichardiii\/attachment\/213301\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4x7yr2nGk1rq8qrno1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4x7yr2nGk1rq8qrno1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_n4x7yr2nGk1rq8qrno1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/professorfangirl.tumblr.com\/post\/84524946279\/fuckyeahrichardiii-runecestershire\" target=\"_blank\">professorfangirl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahrichardiii.tumblr.com\/post\/84523388004\/runecestershire-mythaelogy-things\" target=\"_blank\">fuckyeahrichardiii<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/runecestershire.tumblr.com\/post\/84519884786\/mythaelogy-things-linguistics-has-taught-me\" target=\"_blank\">runecestershire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mythaelogy.tumblr.com\/post\/84471500611\/things-linguistics-has-taught-me-do-not-fuck-with\" target=\"_blank\">mythaelogy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>things linguistics has taught me: do\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>frell with the welsh<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yay for Welsh!<br \/>I toyed around with it for a while, got a handle on the basic grammar and actually learned how to pronounce it (more or less), but there\u2019re practically no Welsh-learning resources available for cheap or free in America, so I didn\u2019t get to a reading or speaking level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love, love,\u00a0<em>love<\/em> the dynamics of language and power that this experiment demonstrates! The\u00a0RP-standard speaker is in a position of enormous privilege by way of his gender, the language he\u2019s speaking (English), and the register he\u2019s speaking in \u2014 received standard, the language that stands as a cultural signifier of education, sophistication, intelligence, and a whole host of other things. The utter domination of that language and the cultural and political history that goes along with it began almost a millennium ago. The RP speaker\u2019s challenge isn\u2019t solely about a language; it invokes that language\u2019s association with the systems of power that have functioned and continue to function as oppression.<\/p>\n<p>The people learning Welsh respond to that exertion of power by <strong>defensively asserting their own cultural identity<\/strong>. <strong>It\u2019s a kind of aggressive dis-identification. The ones that respond by speaking Welsh terms and conjugating verbs are using a language that the RP speaker (or the person they perceive as the RP speaker) likely doesn\u2019t understand. Even though it\u2019s a study and the structure is artificial, the dialogue is constructed, all that, part of the dynamic is to make\u00a0<em>him<\/em> feel like a foreigner, and I love that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That, friends, is how to use language as a tool of resistance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>professorfangirl: fuckyeahrichardiii: runecestershire: mythaelogy: things linguistics has taught me: do\u00a0not\u00a0frell with the welsh Yay for Welsh!I toyed around with it for a while, got a handle on the basic grammar and actually learned how to pronounce it (more or less), but there\u2019re practically no Welsh-learning resources available for cheap or free in America, so I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/03\/professorfangirl-fuckyeahrichardiii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[677,5895,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213302,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213300\/revisions\/213302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}