… to the website that I have planned to be my domain of personhood and reference. That is, this site is designed to be the reference for all things work and otherwise that have to do with my life doings. All of the information is free for the public to explore, employers, renters, et al. This site is regularly updated, at least weekly.

My face can be found on the social media links above, below the heading quote that alludes to Seamus Heaney’s “Digging.”

Graduate student of theoretical & applied linguistics, instructor, and researcher,

Best, Jared

I’m planning for this site to be a collection of my academic works from 2010 and onward.
I would like to organize them by school, semester, and class.

I apologize for the clutter and anything aesthetically displeasing.

To prevent the the equivalent of Hackers W-2b (6th ed.) error of unecessary word repetition, I did a project timeline on the quick history of Gordon Freeman models from the Half-Life Series instead of the dates from which phrases on the internet arose. *hint hint* nudge* on my final project.

Here is the link:
https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=17wsqSDQ7_huY-4MoFaT8lz0C9yAUVN_FZyd4L21i9Qk&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650

Different aspects of history are expressed most effectively in alternate methods. In the geographical realm, maps over time are expressions and proofs of how the human race  represented their understading of the world, society, factors which are overlapped and explain phemomena.

If one explains a variant over the same map while it would change over time, we can show snippets of these data points and the illusion of change over static data. In parallel, statistic data that would be expressed over a slope cannot be precisely explained at a single time because it is ever changing. However, we can provide aspects of truth over different periods through expressions with descriptions.

Put simply, over a plane, if a point is in two positions, we assume that the first moves to the latter in the shortest distance. With more data marked with time, the allusion of movement. This can apply to anything with a variety of dimensions, hence the nomenclature ‘spatial’.

Maps have been used since the beginning of man* to share the knowledge of known information and understanding of the universe with other people. In electronic historical documents, maps are easily lain over with other bits of information that support the truths that can no longer be witnessed from the fluidity of time.

However, just like any historical document, with the perfect amount of information given or retracted, the favored truth can be presented. Typically, when the angle of information is so limited to focus on single data points, the observer is limited in seeing the data only through that lens. Like any statistic, when the information is presented in such a way, any argument can be protrayed. However, in the historic projects provided by the University of Richmond and George Mason – we can find that the information given simply shows phenomena over time, and specifically in one area. There are flaws in assumption when similar phenomena that arise in different areas could be related, and each  of these examples give descriptions why these situations are so particular.

Today was the first day… Here is a URL There’s only so much that can be done on a free account, but at least the limitations have been learned- they will be maximised until necessary

http://spokeninternetlanguage.omeka.net

Over years, the United States has pressed on the recognition of its Supremacy Clause and that it is secured in copyright law and private companies iff recognized by foreign countries. The point I mean to take here comes with a taste of nihilism – that is, in the world, there is no security in the anarchic state of technology and the web; no balance of macro-level control could ever be agreed upon in a consensus of political bodies. In this dimension there is free language, free navigation, and innovation. At what point can ideas be controlled across the world. What ultimate good would that do? To impede haste…

As a travelled person, there are Rawlsian concepts I embrace, that the diversity of ideas across the world create the most ideological end.

I see that it is best to embrace this perspective in a little world that believes in the control, monetarization, and monopoly of ideas. If there is any control of ideas, how can they spread and allow others to grow? The licensure (because it was necessary) was there only to say that I am who I am because I put up a flag on it. Rather, the ideas are to be free to be spread. Copyright is great on legitimacy and identity, but no more on control. In a world where material is in-finite, there is only so much further, if ideas and the intrinsic can be spread to all people- that work is not for naught, not thrown out. The benefit of others is a benefit of self. [end rant]

Since I have thrown the idea around with colleagues regarding the project for the “Philology of Gaming Language and Colloquials” website, there has been much unexpected progress. [allusion: Unforseen Consequences] I’m confident that because of the data I have already gathered, the most difficult mound to climb over will be the setup and presentation: HTML, graphs, clicky things, et cetera. Most of the study wil be lexical data, considering that most things in early gaming were orthographic. HOWEVER, we do see some crossover into phonological and syntax differentiations because of the unique environment/ medium. The written language came before the phonetics, though one may argue that it derived from phonetics… Chicken and the egg argument. Fun part of all this, we are dealing with a gaming Lingua Franca because L2 and L2^2 speakers of English are using these phraseologies of communication in this context. Russian, Korean, Chinese, German.. major speakers of language use “POWNED” in the middle of a native segment… completely different etymologies. Ah, which will also be a part of the project.
Cheers

Any linguist or philologist will explain o’er (initially a typo) time that language is fluid. It is ever changing, in that each observation will never be exactly the same- only generalized.  Even then, let’s say that the individual observed is a monolingual youth… We may expect a range of possible sound outcomes, syntax, tone style based on the frame of a prescripted language in that period. That person’s language (choicely) is influenced from stimuli in their (hän, 3rd person singular) environment. These stimuli come from a variety of sources, primarily their education, upbringing, peers, and most importantly relevant here, their entertainment!
Inspired from the “Language of the State of the Union” digital history project, where specific “hit” words are shown in frequency by each president since George. Similarly, this could be done for language used in gaming with their sources over a timeline. Ideally, I would like to propose this as a model for time-lining language used in ‘gaming environments.’ Before common microphone use in online gaming was widespread, language in gaming was innovative based on situation and circumstance…like most language. However it is certainly unique in the age of mass media and people coming together from all over the world and from different cultures. Where did “W00t”, “BOOM HEADSHOT”, “Must construct additional pylons” or other colloquialisms originate in gaming, and are they observed still? Is it possible that the nature of online language is static, and these are the limited stimuli? Written language, orthography, is not often associated as a study of ‘linguistics,’ yet this relation to what is read and what is being spoken is disputed since the scribe went to the courier, to the emissary, running from town to town. In time, I will elaborate more on these possibilities. Credit to the internet is due here for the preservation of these points in history, mostly on Youtube. Lastly, how else would people across the world readily have a hint toward pejorative and obscene Russian slang and phraseology?

First Submission: My academic career has not been one many would consider orthodox or regular. I graduated secondary school from a College-Prep Military Academy, Randolph-Macon in Front Royal, VA. In my final year I developed epilepsy, which intervened with aviation school. In the following summer, I was in a tragic auto collision that postponed undergraduate school by a semester. I was advised to attend Emory & Henry College. There I studied international relations and philosophy for two years. Because of my proficiency in different languages, I outsourced for another program to satisfy the specifications for my degree. Therefore I applied to Moscow State University (МГУ/MSU). For a year I attended their faculty of Foreign Languages and Area studies where I studied Russian and Finnish language. In my completion of their program I was formally invited by the faculty of Philology (Фил-Фак) to return for my PhD. Emory did not share my academic interests upon my return. I took a class at the University of Richmond and then transferred to George Mason University for the Master’s/ PhD program in Linguistics, in addition to tidying up my undergraduate work. My most recent proposed thesis is on Cross-lingual Semantics, values and markedness. I wish to pursue my higher education further in Helsinki, Tartu, or MSU.

One of the questions in online academia I have is on legitimacy and regulation of published work. It’s one thing to create a name and have your work on JSTOR…or Amazon. Having academic blogs is great for the principle of noting progress and sharing thought, especially to have roots and grounding. Intrinsic. For other permanence purposes, edited and formalised papers are done through online journals and databases.

However what I find unfortunate is marketing of these online pieces. The flow and ebb of income ‘ought’ to be in another way than the reader. Most articles are available online, so this is moot, *** it only damages the author to not have a popular demand if they charge to read their academic work.  I never plan to charge for my work. I plan to live my life dedicated to academia.  My love is for historical linguistics and the Baltic- Scandinavian region of nations focusing on the Finno- Ugric languages, while dipping into Russophilia.

A last little note reflecting on the articles.
People who choose their media outlets mark their social identity online and in outside social circles, cliques- just as anyone looks into another’s collection of apps on a phone. Pinterest, tumblr, twitter, snapchat, or Tinder. All apps carry a marked identity in their usage, and that varies per se with each nation of people.

For example, people genuinely go on walks and get tea on Tinder. Tourists use the app in order to find friendly guides. I speak for this example.

Since mass media has made unforeseen strides in efficiency, depth and scope, the varieties of language have also developed and changed! Identity of a person is noted based on their attention to a prescripted variety of a language. This includes phonetic speech, dissention of grammar and punctuation, and the inclusion of symbolic speech- idiographic. More and more this is accepted and developing ideas across different languages.

• Miriam Posner, Stewart Varner, and Brian Coxall, “Creating Your Web Presence,” ProfHacker, February 14, 2011.
• Ryan Cordell, “Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online,” ProfHacker, October 3, 2012.