ok, so another favourite female protagonist of mine is ellen ripley, played by sigourney weaver.
she just about overcame the xenomorph in ridley scott's alien (1979).
and she spent most of james cameron's aliens (1986) getting over her trauma.. here's some nice footage of newt calling ripley 'mommy' .... https://youtu.be/7fjana93kea.
Ok, so another favourite female protagonist of mine is Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver. She just about overcame the xenomorph in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979). And she spent most of James Cameron's Aliens (1986) getting over her trauma.
Here's some nice footage of Newt calling Ripley 'mommy' ...
mixes are playlists that youtube makes of your favourite music.. so i thought it would be interesting if people posted their yt playlists here.. er, i don't know how to post my playlist.. anyhoo, i guess i can just post a series of songs in multiple posts from my playlist.
😁.
https://youtu.be/bmitvsoxgai.
mixes are playlists that youtube makes of your favourite music.. so i thought it would be interesting if people posted their yt playlists here.. er, i don't know how to post my playlist.. anyhoo, i guess i can just post a series of songs in multiple posts from my playlist.
😁.
https://youtu.be/bmitvsoxgai.
mixes are playlists that youtube makes of your favourite music.. so i thought it would be interesting if people posted their yt playlists here.. er, i don't know how to post my playlist.. anyhoo, i guess i can just post a series of songs in multiple posts from my playlist.
😁.
https://youtu.be/bmitvsoxgai.
i've already spoken about how big film studios have given us shitty female protagonists such as rey and she-hulk and the like.
and i've also posted stuff about the female protagonists i like.. so, i think it would be good if i devoted an op to each female protagonist that i think is great.. first up, jackie brown, played by pam grier in jackie brown (1997), directed by quentin tarantino.. jackie brown is an ordinary flight stewardess who finds herself caught up between drug smuggler ordell robie and the fbi.. it's a great film.. https://youtu.be/aixayclox7q.
I've already spoken about how big film studios have given us shitty female protagonists such as Rey and She-Hulk and the like. And I've also posted stuff about the female protagonists I like.
So, I think it would be good if I devoted an OP to each female protagonist that I think is great.
First up, Jackie Brown, played by Pam Grier in Jackie Brown (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Jackie Brown is an ordinary flight stewardess who finds herself caught up between drug smuggler Ordell Robie and the FBI.
It's a great film.
if our pet cats were the size of labradors .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedzrvgufli.
Awww, he's beautiful! 🥰
Here, kitty kitty 😺
if our pet cats were the size of labradors .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedzrvgufli.
If our pet cats were the size of Labradors ...
for newbies, who was carl olof jonsson?
he was a jw in sweden who was challenged by a householder in the 1960s, who pointed out to him that secular history books don’t agree with watchtower that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, but instead place the event 20 years later.
the reason the date is important is because it is the starting date for jw chronology which leads to 1914 as the end of the gentile times, and the beginning of the last days, as jws understand it.
RIP Carl Olof Jonsson.
Seems like he was an intellectually honest guy. Too good for the WTS.
i mentioned using faroese as a basis for a pw in answer to fatfreek's op.. so, i got curious about the language and dug further on youtube, looking at a few faroese language channels*.. here's what i found out .... faroese is kinda between icelandic and nynorsk (one of the two norwegian standard languages) in many ways.
which is neat, considering the islands are geographically between iceland and norway.. the way it's written emphasises its connection to old norse, and makes the language look like icelandic.. icelandic has a letter for the voiced sound 'th', as in this.
the letter is called edh and looks like this: ð. but in faroese, it doesn't have a sound of its own.
@Phizzy - I remember watching a lady speak in her dialect on YT - it might have been Orkney or Shetland.
Those islands used to have their own language, Norn. Indeed, Shetland was ruled by Norway until the mid-fifteenth century, from what I remember. And Norn has influenced Shetlandic and Orcadian speech.
And you're right about different languages and dialects forming because of natural barriers. Apparently, Faroese has a number of dialects, and I suppose it's no coincidence that there are 18 inhabited islands in the Faroe Islands. I don't think Icelandic varies much in terms of dialects.
i mentioned using faroese as a basis for a pw in answer to fatfreek's op.. so, i got curious about the language and dug further on youtube, looking at a few faroese language channels*.. here's what i found out .... faroese is kinda between icelandic and nynorsk (one of the two norwegian standard languages) in many ways.
which is neat, considering the islands are geographically between iceland and norway.. the way it's written emphasises its connection to old norse, and makes the language look like icelandic.. icelandic has a letter for the voiced sound 'th', as in this.
the letter is called edh and looks like this: ð. but in faroese, it doesn't have a sound of its own.
@Queequeg - yes, I think you're right.
I haven't learnt Icelandic properly, but I've kinda looked into it.
Here's the Icelandic word for 'not':
ekki (pronounced 'ehki')
And here's the Faroese version:
ikki (pronounced 'itch-uh')
So, yeah, they look very similar, but with radically different pronunciation.
Faroese has been isolated for centuries, and thus has had the time and conditions to develop its own pronunciation.
Perhaps Faroese has more in common with some Western Norwegian dialects, at least in terms of pronunciation. Some of these dialects have also preserved the three genders, as opposed to Bokmaal, Danish and Swedish which have in essence two genders - common gender and neuter gender (en man; ett hus).
Another thing I forgot to talk about was that Faroese doesn't appear to have the speech melody, the single tone and double tone, of Norwegian and Swedish. Or if it does it's so toned down I didn't pick up on it.
