Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk...

"Thanks for coming, I'll keep this brief. I'm not looking to name names but I want to talk to you all about the state of the shared kitchen" TED Los Angeles fauna mammal human behavior

"Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk", as far as I can tell, came before "In this essay, I will..." Ted Talk was on Tumblr, Essay on Twitter. Ted Talks offer advice; Essay meme offers profound thoughts.

So here are some fun ones I found.. .

welcome to my ted talk

9:08 AM - 30 Jun 2018

Mrs PA-C@PAlife3

DO NOT GET AN ANIMAL IF YOU CANNOT COMMIT TO ITS CARE FOR THE ENTIRETY OF ITS LIFE.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Claudia Oshry

✔@girlwithnojob

Chips are never an appropriate substitute for French fries. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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3:25 PM - Sep 16, 2018

If a video gamer is considered an athlete then there should be no debate about cheerleaders or dancers being answered. Welcome to my Ted Talk https://twitter.com/espn/status/1042027998751404034 …

ESPN

✔@espn

He's taken gaming to new heights.@Ninja is ESPN the Magazine's latest cover athlete.

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Hiiiiyeeee!

I didn't post Friday because I was watching TV with my daughter. We were watching our favorite show-RuPaul's Drag Race. An interesting trend right now is that phrases from drag culture (which are also from African American culture-particularly women) are popping up on Twitter and are now mainstream. In fact, I have heard students saying these phrases up and down the halls and I have to giggle to myself because I doubt many of them know what they are saying. So here are few favorites and what they mean (just so you know). YAS! - This word was created as an exclamation to yell at drag queens while they were performing as a sign of support and encouragement. Spill the T/Tea-S lang for the word truth or gossip. Used in a sentence: "Girl, I'm about to spill the tea on everything that happened last night." Gagging- Used when something is so fierce, you can’t help but want to gag from the overload of extreme fierceosity. Sickening- Amazing, ...

Since you asked...it's Gif (with a hard G)

The discussion began with changing the cat on Everett's blog. Here's the Gif I used :) But do I call it a Gif (with a hard G like Gift) or a Gif (with a soft J like Jiff)? According to Newsweek (article link ) , it should be the hard G, like Gift. Reasons: *The "G" in GIF stands for Graphic , which is pronounced with a hard G. It's Graphic Interchange Format. *"Gift" is GIF's closest neighbor. *A computer would pronounce the acronym with a hard "G." *Our brains logically just want to pronounce it with a hard G. But the creator feels otherwise. In his acceptance of the Webby Lifetime achievement award ( Not going to lie-kind of cool to think about the real people who created the things that we use everyday and that there are awards for this stuff!) . He says (Jiff) I think I will probably still say it with the hard G because it makes sense to my brain.

A round of applause or making a point?

I speak with my hands. I am a very physical speaker both with my face and my gestures. The other day in one of my freshman classes, I made a statement to a student and clapped my hands after every word. I wanted to emphasize what I was saying. This was met with much more laughter than I expected. Coincidentally, there was a Tweet I saw a few days later that had the handclap emoji between each word. Ahhh..... The hand clap emoji when used in succession is a round of applause Why thank you! Between each word emphasizes your point Look at me being all relevant without meaning to. Where did this come from? According to the website Bustle, and several others I looked at, it comes from the African American culture. It is called "The Black Girl Clap" used often when a woman is explaining something (generally to a man). But online, according to Slate.com, it's become aggressive. When you do this you are ...

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