OMG....

I am officially terrified for this nation.

( A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. )

Edit: Her user info also scares me.

I had almost given up!

But I think I've found a way to contact atomic_pickle and explain my view to her (namely, that the deaths of the troops IS something we should care about).

Sure, comments to that comm are screened. Sure, she doesn't allow non-friend comments. But there's always LJ Connect!

conuly -> nrhk16 -> eternallynumb -> tsl_colourbars -> atomic_pickle (4 hops)

That's suprisingly short!

But two of the names probably aren't useful. Lemme try again....

conuly -> zoethe -> princessrini -> iamthedan -> sallysvision -> atomic_pickle (5 hops)

Okay. If zoethe can be persuaded to post a link to this in her journal, and princessrini does as well, and so do the other two people... Maybe atomic_pickle will have the chance to see some non-positive feedback!

Well, it sure beats spamming the liberal/military comms of LJ with a link to my post, don't you think?

My only question: is this allowed under the ToS? It seems kinda iffy mihi.

conuly -> zoethe -> wolfka -> etched_scarss -> gigglyshy -> atomic_pickle (5 hops) also works.

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HELP!

I have this project due tomorrow. I had been planning to do a tape of people speaking and come up with results (it's for sociolinguistics) but the tape is impossible to hear for most of it. So I'm doing the OTHER project, which I had originally decided not to do because I didn't have enough people. Basically, I'm going to get a few results and extrapolate from them, instead of doing what I was supposed to do which is give the survey to two groups of 10 people each, which are alike in all respects except one. PLEASE help!

[Poll #360503]

Edit: Unless this affected your answers, don't worry about it. Just a clarification: AAVE is *not* supposed to be taken to mean slang. I lost the explanation we were supposed to give, which is just as well as I really thought that explanation was biased towards AAVE anyway. I mean, so am I, but that didn't seem fair. Anyway, AAVE is supposed to be considered as a dialect such as RP english or Brooklyn english, not as slang.

Non-americans, unless you know a lot about the subject (or think you can guess based on your knowledge of nonprestigious dialects where you are), don't answer. I'm locking this so that I can't be called out for rushing the assignment.