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Link Blog: Skateboarding
From a very young age I was seduced by the elegance of skateboarding.
Growing up watching the likes of:
Rodney Mullen – The greatest street skater of all time, single-handedly pioneering street skating as a whole into what it is today.
Ryan Sheckler – The “Gap God,” from a young age capable of clearing enormous gaps, while now as an adult riding for Plan B.
Bob Burnquist – A personal favorite. A really good guy that was always pushing the boundaries of skating ramps.
I began using words like gnar, sick, and stoked.
I became extremely fine-tuned in my observation of tricks and their assorted, complicated names and variations.
There are skaters all over the world, united by a passion. When traveling the world, you can expect to speak to skaters of all different nationalities. Here is a map of the languages spoken around the world.
I would go from town to town, skating all the different parks in my area.
If you’re interested in finding a park to skate, take a look at this map.
Check out these videos for some classic skating:
Global Linguistics
During our time at The Museum of Man, I was able to find many different languages used throughout the exhibits. It made me realize how integral communication and language are on all cultural developments. For every single item in display, there was a concept that was mentally described using language, and then there was a discussion about this idea, and then the idea was able to take shape. Without language there would never have been any human advancement in history.
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Call to Mom
I made a phone call to my mom, who is from San Ramon, CA.
A) I asked her about what we use when we wash the cars, and she used the term bucket.
B) She uses the phrase How’s it going? a lot.
C) I asked her what I always drink, and she said soda pop. I think she was joking around when she said this.
D) She did not use hella in our conversation, but I know she uses it occasionally.
E) She didn’t have any idea what the term, dank, meant. Or at least she pretended she didn’t know its primary use.
She mentioned that when my dad is around his cousins, he uses his slang from their childhood, because they were all really close. So when he’s with them he always says everything is killer or wicked or sick! I also notice him use the phrase, “Right on!” constantly.
When asked about the different vowels and how they compare, she said that they all sounded very close, but we had our own distinctions between them.
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