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thedailywhat:

Marketing Campaign of the Day: This brilliant promotion for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by photographer Bjoern Ewers shines a perspective-reexamining light on the interiors of musical instruments, which, incidentally, look like they would make rather amazing concert halls.

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(But listen from the beginning.) Balin’s Tomb, The Fellowship of the Ring:

That’s when the shot opens up into the the vaulted ceilings of the main hall, slowly emerging from the darkness, its sheer scale revealed as the dark falls away. And the music swells up with it, before it breaks softly at the crest and fades back down.

Chills every time, man.

farewell-kingdom:

 Zander Olsen’s Tree Line (via)

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paris

one bitchface to rule them all

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Other than the usual differences in vocabulary (Americans really need to sort out the pants issue, the jelly issue, the college issue, etc. etc. when conversing with/writing for non-US people. It helps to consume more foreign media…) and spellings (-re/er, -ise/ize, -ou/o-), there are also loads of interesting, more subtle differences I’ve been noticing, such as:

• A different modal (? I’ll get back to you when I have the correct terms) construction. We have all day (US) tends to be we’ve got all day (UK). Does he have internet? (US) is has he got internet? (UK). We tack a do onto the front of this kind of sentence when turning it into a question, and keep the word order the same. They move the have to the front and insert a got. I don’t know what this means. I’ll go find a linguistics textbook now…
• The one with the stripes on it (US) is equivalent to the one with the stripes on (UK). It works for in as well, and other prepositions (I presume). The it on which the stripes are is… an object? No? Maybe? Anyhow, UK speakers don’t require it to be there.
• Collective nouns are treated as plural (UK). Like, the union are coming to speak tomorrow or the board debate new issues where in the US the union is coming to speak and the board debates.
• Question intonation tends to go in different directions. US questions usually go up in tone at the end, whereas UK ones remain level before dropping off at the end. Cool, huh? It’s not a set rule- intonation changes all the time depending on context and intention, but it’s a pattern.

I’m not entirely certain if these are informal/colloquial features, but noticing these things is really fantastically interesting (and a bit satisfying, I think).

It’s like I’m doing linguistic fieldwork, you guys.