South Park

If you guys want to re-watch that South Park on global warming...
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/908

I'm sure that someone has translated them, somewhere on the internet, into Chinese....although the cultural references are probably hard to translate....

Also, here is something I'm teaching in my conversation class. But since you guys are so cool, here it is for you.
I would be interested to see what you think of this--the documentary is about Chinese people our age.

Ok, sweet!

Tuesday 14.10.2008

We will be in room 412 of the South Language Building!

We're going to watch An Inconvenient Truth, which is by Al Gore.

and, another song I love...
Nick Drake "Pink Moon"

:)

Saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall
Pink moon gonna get ye all

And it’s a pink moon
I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall

Pink moon gonna get ye all
And it’s a pink moon
Yes, a pink moon

Figures of Speech 1

Even though some of it is in Latin, you can do this! Many figures of speech are merely visual; you don't need to know what the words mean. You just have to observe where they are and the patterns.
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Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso, [alliteration]
quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus
insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores impulerit. [repitition]
Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?


Muse, tell me the cause: how was she offended in her divinity,
how was she grieved, the Queen of Heaven, to drive a man,
noted for virtue, to endure such dangers, to face so many
trials? Can there be such anger in the minds of the gods? [rhetorical question]
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Illi indignantes magno cum murmure montis [alliteration]
circum claustra fremunt; celsa sedet Aeolus arce [alliteration]
sceptra tenens, mollitque animos et temperat iras.


The angry winds moan [personification] angrily at the doors, with a mountain’s vast murmurs: [onomonopoeia]
Aeolus sits, holding his sceptre, in his high stronghold,
softening their passions, tempering their rage.
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The oars break: then the prow swings round and offers
the beam to the waves: a steep mountain of water follows in a mass.
[hyperbole; also metaphor (water is a mountain)]
Some ships hang on the breakers crest: to others the yawning deep
shows land between the waves: the surge rages with sand.

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…the winds, formed ranks, [personification]
rushed out by the door he’d made, and whirled across the earth.
Suddenly clouds take sky and day away [personification]
from the Trojans eyes: dark night rests on the sea.
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Some of the figures of speech we’ve talked about:
hyperbole, rhetorical question, metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration