Just a thought

"Everyone is a genius.  But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein

Just a thought

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Google

Google came from the word "googol" which means 10 to the 100th power, which was then creatively altered by the creators of google from "googol" to google.  There is no clear format that i can see that google falls into (if there is please leave a comment and tell me).  However, google started as a name but as the use of the search engine grew and the name google became a verb.  For example, "i'm going to google a recipe."

my name in I.P.A

mæt

image of my autobio

Me and Language

Matthew Ellor

Language to me is a form of communication in many different forms, spoken language, written language, body language, aural language and my favored visual language.  My first language is English I speak, write, and (often) understand it.  I was raised learning England English but grow up on American English.  What was interesting to me is that even though the U.S. and the U.K. native language is both English, there are some big and a lot of small some noticeable others not so noticeable, differences between the two within all the many forms of language.  The way I talk with friends is in English but it’s more colloquial, depending on who I’m with because I have an economically, racially, demographically diverse group of friends.  I learned to speak through hearing my mom and family and friends talk, seeing them interact with other people, reading their body language.  Other things that I remember really enjoying and that i believe helped was having stories read to me and attempting to read books my self, another influence was music I learned the language at a young age of 3 ½ beginning to learn the cello and I know it has positively impacted my relationship with language.  Quality, understanding and usage of language in all its forms effects how people perceive you and how the world gets along. 

My name is what my name is who my name is matt

1.  my name is matt im going to describe to all you linguistics out there how to pronounce my name.  The first syllable of Matt has an onset of a voiced bilabial nasal with a rhyme of a mid central vowel "ma" the next part of Matt is the "tt" which is a voiced alveolar stop (not sure of that please write a correction comment if wrong).

2.  here is another description for the non linguistics in the house, for Matt you begin by making a nasal "mmmm" sound by putting your lips together and then let an "aaaa" sound come out followed quickly by a short "ttt" sound by putting your tongue in back of your upper teeth which kind of sounds like a spitting noise.