just so I'm sure I understand the meaning of the term, "code-switching" is using more than one language in the same sentence/conversation, and using the languages such that they're grammatically and syntactically correct?
This is what wordnik says, but I've never heard it this way, but rather in the context of shifting appearance -- e.g., if you're gay, acting "straight" in some groups, and more "gay" in others.
Oh yeah! I knew there was a usage I'd heard that was more behavioral and less strictly linguistic. Hmm. Interesting.
So I should make my reservations with that in mind, eh Kat? Actually, that's nice, since if I fly weekends, I can still get shit done that needs doing without cost to the whole vacationing thing!
Vacation's been capped as of this year, so I will have to see how much time I have to play with. Plus this whole stupid self-imposed budget. OTOH, mom's already told me she'll spring for the airfare (I think she's kind of tickled I declared TG my own holiday, even though it means she doesn't see me) so that makes it a bit more doable.
Plus I have awesome free catsitters possibly (I adore my paid cat/housesitters/boarding, but it is 'spensive and I can't be as free with luxuries as I used to be.)
That latter definition is how I think of code switching.
Yeah, the code switching I am familiar with is shifting language use specific to company.
Never heard of it in the context of the other, so I think someone should mail them a correction on that point.
Plei!! Are you home now all safe and sound?? So great to finally have met you.
Teppy, yes, get back out here, please.
DH got quoted by the NYT, which has made his day:
Sparky, that is
seriously
exciting!
I need a quick sanity check from Buffistas who are around tweens and teens more often than I am: kids who are considered "preps" don't dye their hair wacky colors like blue or purple, right?
(I'm working on a new GCS column, and have a letter from a cranky babybat about how her parents won't let her dye her hair black, only purple or blue, and that her parents think she's a PREP, OMG. Poor confused babybat.)
Odd colored hair is rebellion, so not likely to be preppy
But I don't see a lot of preppy kids in CA. Not even on the street.
Of course my sister who was very preppy since birth has bright pink ends on the back of her head. ( she is 40 now)
So that isn't helpful
yay for mac
and sympathies , Sheryl
I am wondering how one confuses preppy and goth. I am also wondering about being OK with purple hair or blue hair but drawing the line at black. Seems arbitrary to me.
