December 2011
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Dude
Dude is developing into a discourse marker that need not identify an addressee, but more generally encodes the speaker’s stance to his or her current addressee(s). The term is used mainly in situations in which a speaker takes a stance of solidarity or camaraderie, but crucially in a nonchalant, not-too-enthusiastic manner. Dude indexes a stance of effortlessness (or laziness, depending on the...
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Lana Del Rey, “Born to Die”
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CREEP, “Animals” (feat. Holly Miranda)
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Do you have a British flag we could burn?
A diplomat I knew in Asia who had worked at the British embassy would tell the story of student demonstrators who brought a portable sound system to one protest, but were thwarted when the small shopkeepers opposite the embassy got fed up with all the chanting and unplugged the PA system. After a moment, embassy guards heard a knock on the metal gates. They slid open the little hatch in the...
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Bon Homme, Live at Electronic Beats Festival
Vienna, October 2011