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What’s been going on with the Cell/internet service in Yukon
In the past two weeks we’ve had three outages. People keep digging up our brand new fiber cable. There is just one cable that all of Yukon’s internet service depends on, and it cost Northwestel a...
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Carcross
We drove out to Carcross this weekend and I took this picture at the desert. I took a little walk barefoot and enjoyed the feeling of the warm sand under my feet. It seems that even after a couple...
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The Chocolate Chip Cookie Fiasco
I can’t bake chocolate cookies! They always turn out burnt or raw or flat. Sometimes they fall apart and taste nasty. Then I’m stuck with gross cookies that I won’t eat and I’ve wasted the ingredients....
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Endings and New Beginnings
So six years of studying are finally over and now I have my M.A. I went back to Ontario in September to defend my thesis and was able to visit my family at the same time. This picture was taken on...
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Language of Ages and the Art of Conversation.
In my third year of my undergrad we had a debate in Field Linguistics class. The debate seperated the decriptivists and the prescriptivists. At the time, I was a hard core descriptivist. I remember...
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Which is worse: Talking on yohr phone in a restaurant or interrupting them?
Over the weekend I went out for dinner solo. I had to make a business call and since I was alone, I decided to do it then. While I was talking the waitress came up to me and started telling me the...
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Sick of it
Lately I’ve been super stressed out. It’s not my job- I love my job. It’s not really any one thing in particular it’s just a bunch of small things that make me really angry. Like the pizza guy knocks...
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What our Politicians aren’t talking about
In 2003, a literacy survey was done accross Canada. Yukon shows to have some of the best literacy rates of the Country at 67%. The problem is, this survey was only conducted in Whitehorse and excluded...
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Demystifying Jargon: Why We Use It and Why We Shouldn’t
Working in the non-profit world you get to learn a lot of jargon. I recently spoke with an employee at a funding agency that absolutely can’t stand jargon. She told me that people just use it to sound...
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It’s been a while…
I lost track of this blog a while ago. It seems that once my own research ended and I started working for an organization, I couldn’t really share as much. My life is changing again and I’m off to the...
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Potty Mouth: The ins and outs of bathroom etiquette in the technology era
When it comes to language use, there are a lot of taboos around bathroom words. We call it “the loo” or the “little devil’s room” or the “powder room”. There are so many euphemisms for what we do in...
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Do you read me?
I used to love to read. As a teenager I read novel after novel. I read the Sweet Valley series, The Lord of the Rings series, the Anne of Green Gables series, the Dragonlance series, the Little Women...
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Which is worse: Talking on yohr phone in a restaurant or interrupting them?
Over the weekend I went out for dinner solo. I had to make a business call and since I was alone, I decided to do it then. While I was talking the waitress came up to me and started telling me the...
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Do you read me?
I used to love to read. As a teenager I read novel after novel. I read the Sweet Valley series, The Lord of the Rings series, the Anne of Green Gables series, the Dragonlance series, the Little Women...
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Gender Equality in Language
Why is it that the worst insults for men, are when they are attributed to a girl? For example: you throw like a girl. Girls can throw. Girls have professional sports team. Why does throwing like a girl...
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Field Research – Winter Road Trip- week 1.
For the last ten weeks, I have been on the road conducting field research. It’s been an amazing experience, but there have been a few moments of craziness. I thought I would share a few memories week...
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Field research – Winter Road Trip – Week 2
So after the events of my first week of travel, I was happy to be staying in a hotel that had a deadbolt on the door. Haines Junction and the Kluane Lake region is my favourite area for hiking in the...
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Field Research – Winter Road Trip – Week 3
This was the week I was most excited for in my travels. I had never been to Old Crow before and I was eager to see and get to know a community that I had heard so much about. I should state that I’m...
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Northern Princess: Tiaras and Chainsaws
Well it was only a couple weeks after placing second in the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Queen Competition that I was off to the Northernmost community in the Yukon. A new job and a new adventure. I...
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