An outsider sees things differently than someone who is directly involved in a way of life. The East Side greasers are "outsiders" to the West side of town, the "rich" side. To an outsider, West-side life can look very appealing, but it is unappreciated by the Socs who live there. ...
Michael Malone suggested that it was becauseThe Outsidersconforms to the popular myth of "the tragic beauty of violent youth." He observed that rather than being realistic, Ponyboy's language and story belong to a mythic or ideal world where ...
a. In addition, the slang of college students is not cautiously secret, although because of its rapid turnover and its cultural allusions it is often incomprehensible to outsiders. . 另外,大学生俗话不谨慎地是秘密,虽然由于它的迅速转交和它的文化暗指它对局外人经常是不能理解的。 [translate] ...
This is because an educated foreigner will expect and be expected to interact with natives of the same social level. Also, an obvious foreigner using slang words and colloquial speech will probably do so not only with the foreign accent (including intonation) but also more slowly than a native...
, and I found the following passage so sensible and interesting I thought I’d quote it here (it’s near the start of chapter 2, “Scripts and Languages”): For the present purposes the relevant variants are East Slavonic and Church Slavonic. In Rus, East Slavonic and Church Slavonic were...
we don’t really know about that. And, yeah, we, like, kinda, sorta, maybe knew that here, in our own country, Mussolinisuppressed his opponents, dissenters, and social outsiders via physical assaults, imprisonment, economic deprivation, yada yada yada…. But, he made the trains run on ...
In places where the local variety has become accepted, local people who continue to speak the imported variety can be seen as outsiders or as behaving unnaturally in some way. 2.2. Moag's Life-Cycle Model. Moag's life-cycle model is another simple and interesting model of nonnative ...
deep sensitivity to the rhythms of carceral spaces like Sing Sing and “the Tombs” and an appreciation for the trauma and pain of characters who also routinely find joy, make art and build community amongst the sexual outlaws, felons, and hustlers that “respectable” outsiders openly despise....
Years ago IBM could sell an idea. They’d come in, manage a project, develop an application, and it would make a big difference to the customer. IBM would generally deliver on their promises, and those benefits more than paid for the high cost of the project and the computers. IBM tran...
(or “Bible believing”) to latitudinarian (or “modern”) Christianity. In later decades, this scale was transposed into one that ranged from religious to secular and was used for measuring the distance between the established—“enlightened” Dutch citizens or Westerners at large—and outsiders....