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Communication up close

  09/14/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Ruby Payne something I have found true in the microcosm of my personal life, that poor families use fewer nouns and more pronouns. After 58 (Continue Reading)

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Language hypocrisy

  08/31/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When we speak of contractions in English like ‘we would have’ reduced to ‘we’d’ve’ the language guardians and scolds label that ‘improper’, ‘slang’, ‘sloppy’, and (Continue Reading)

Linguistics, scolds and guardians, Uncategorized

Why SOME sports fans belong in the dregs of humanity category

  07/29/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Full disclosure: I have never been a sports fan. My wife, my son, so many people in my life are “avid” sports fans (like a (Continue Reading)

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Current Health of Me

  05/22/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Since my last post to this topic I have been on a very steady exercise program, actually two programs, one CORE I do at home (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise, Uncategorized

Up to here

  01/16/2021       Pat Barrett      8 Comments

Maybe we felt bad about Trump supporters and Trump voters being ridiculed by the leading-lights of the major culture, esp for thinking they are the (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Politics, Uncategorized

How Mass Media Affects Mass Man

  12/26/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This from Meacham’s Soul of America quoting Richard Hofstadter: “…. growth of the mass media of communication and their use in politics have brought politics (Continue Reading)

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More evidence of the efficacy of repetition in input

  12/06/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An article on child acquisition of the ergative forms in Basque finds that Basque children receiving bilingual input, i.e. two different languages being used in (Continue Reading)

Foreign language teaching & learning, TPRS, Uncategorized

Signs of acquisition

  11/19/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Tracking one student has its advantages. When you are working with a group of students, it’s hard to notice what each one is acquiring. My (Continue Reading)

Foreign language teaching & learning, Uncategorized

Culture gets passed on, like it or not

  07/05/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In these pages I often stress the persistence of African cultural traits in the New World. Those traits came from Africans brought here during the (Continue Reading)

Culture, Pat's World View, Uncategorized

Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 11 #

  05/23/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Vous allez ecrire des notes. Why do I have to take notes?* She picked a gender neutral name for a character who was the object (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 8, 2019

  05/18/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Started with more complex grammar and even that I got wrong!  Then some cultural stuff.That I got right. Qu’est-ce que vous buvez quand vous avez (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 23, 2019 #

  05/16/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Nyah’s BirthdayShe said something in French and I missed recording it! Here is the story again: Deux personnes marchaient dans la foret. Sur le sentier (Continue Reading)

TPRS, Uncategorized

Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 20, 2019 #

  05/14/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This is another story and she asks for clarifications but there is a lot of new vocabulary. She recalled ‘boue’ and she comprehended most but (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson Nov. 15, 2019 #

  05/13/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Est-ce que une jeune fille est un garcon? No*La jeune fille travaille au Disneyland. Est-ce qu’elle travaille au Disneyworld?No. DisneyLAND* Elle conduit….drive?”Dort….I don’t knowFrere Jacques, (Continue Reading)

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Nyah lesson Nov. 7, 2019 Thursday #

  05/13/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The packageWhy is there Y there? Y stands for ,….But isn’t there a word y?I didn’t know that was a world wide epidemic (hippies)Why is (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson Nov. 5, 2019 #

  05/08/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

After transcribing this I think I would say the “structures” are l’ and avoir peur and Asked for leaving the question words up. Qui est (Continue Reading)

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Accountability and Reconciliation

  04/15/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Bishop Desmond Tutu led his country into an era he called Truth and Reconciliation. South Africa had been as bad as the American South; worse, (Continue Reading)

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next edition, Uncategorized

Ups and Downs with TPRS and the Virus

  04/14/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Just as my granddaughter was getting back into the swing of things with French, the virus hit. She has stayed away for a week or (Continue Reading)

TPRS, Uncategorized

States with no lockdown as of April 4

  04/04/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Four states, all Republican governors. Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, North and South Dakota. Iowa really surprises me.

Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next edition, Uncategorized

Take his whistle away

  04/02/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

What is the point in finding out the identity of a whistle blower? To punish him, of course. But why punish him what the whistle (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Uncategorized

Why the Right Hates Cultural Relativity

  03/29/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

It’s really simple: people who gravitate to the right are authoritarians. Cultural relativity undermines that. Cultural relativity states that all societies face the same basic (Continue Reading)

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The X factor…. Malcolm or Latin?

  02/18/2020       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

So easy to ridicule liberals …. or Liberals. They are now taking to saying “Latinx” instead of Latin, Latino, or Latina. Seems silly, right? Just (Continue Reading)

grammar & language change, Uncategorized, Word of the Day

Why I don’t feel the Bern

  01/28/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

There is a lot here I agree with: (it’s from The Bulwark) 1. Trump Would Destroy Bernie If the polls are to be believed, Bernie (Continue Reading)

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