TYTU – 08.06.13

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White student union created at Georgia State University. Family killing professor to keep job? English professor says don’t teach spelling or grammar on account of cell phones. Students with fake guns have run in with police. Ball State bans intelligent design in science classrooms. Banker brother’s hedge fund recruiting email offends… everyone. Millennial men much muore likely to live with parents than women. Things guys wish girls knew. College professor told Emma Watson to quit acting after seeing Harry Potter. Charting at what age hangovers hit you hardest – SCIENCE. How the rich kids of Instagram are spending their summers. Trendy or trashy: geek inspired bras for geek week.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/white-student-union-georgia-state-university_n_3689174.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-downstate-professor-killed-parents-20130802,0,370259.story
http://news.yahoo.com/professor-says-kids-no-longer-learn-spelling-grammar-132007441.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/03/actors-fake-guns-police_n_3700595.html?utm_hp_ref=college
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/ball-state-intelligent-design_n_3688857.html?utm_hp_ref=college
http://jezebel.com/banker-bro-now-hiring-frat-dudes-with-hot-slampieces-1012342664
http://www.brobible.com/life/article/millennial-men-living-with-parents
http://www.ibtimes.com/emma-watson-reveals-college-professor-told-her-quit-acting-after-harry-potter-1371709
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2381284/Booze-Britain-Why-29-year-olds-suffer-worst-hangovers.html
http://www.brobible.com/life/article/rich-kids-of-instagram-summer-update
http://www.pulse.me/email_link?c=email_iphone&redirect_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpulse.me%2Fs%2FmGVs6

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  1. Ana, i feel like there is no way you’re a 36C cuz your way too skinny for being so petite….you should try going down a band size & up a cup size :D

  3. English is clearly not your second language… 0o; You were born in the USA. Just because our full name is Anahit and your parents are from Armenia doesn’t mean you aren’t a native English speaker (you can legally run for POTUS for godsakes!). You clearly grew up speaking with other American English speakers, and that makes it your first language (or at least one of them; I’m not sure if you can officially have two first languages, given that it’s supposed to be your “first” language, but w/e).

    Also, “Spelling and grammar are important” is a grammatically correct thing to say.

    1. If she learned to speak another language first then that is her first language. The country you are born in has no bearing on what your first language is. Also, I find it amusing that you are telling her what her first language is. I think she would know better than anyone.

      1. Strictly speaking, there are a number of definitions for one’s “first language”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_language

        However, she grew up in the United States. Unless she literally never played with any of the kids in her neighborhood, she would have had to co-learnt Armenian and English. The idea that her parents would have taught her no English as a young child that they were raising in America, where English is the de facto first language, is something I don’t consider to be likely. If you learn two languages at one time (which, again, she must have). Now, if she literally was taught Armenian first and didn’t learn any English before she had a basic understanding of Armenian, then I stand corrected. But I really doubt that that’s the case. I would wager to guess that she meant that they taught her English as a child but often/always spoke Armenian growing up. But, again, unless she had zero English friends as a child and her parents taught her absolutely no English while she was between ages 1-5, she can’t seriously say that English is hard for her to speak or she can’t do it as well as any other native English-speaker. If you’re taught multiple languages at a formative age, I think it’s safe to say you speak all of them at first language-level fluency. In a multi-cultural world, these terms like “first” start to lose their literal meaning, imo. If she considers Armenian to be her “first language”, based on some arbitrary definition of a “first language”, then that’s her choice and you’re right I obviously don’t know better than her. What I’m objecting to is that she thinks she doesn’t speak English with full fluency, which is, no offense to her, simply not credible. I’m not trying to be mean, I just think it’s a really misleading thing to say.

  4. So I keep being told not to forget to like the video which I would do because I gotta say i enjoyed it this is the first TYT University I’ve seen. anyway I am going to assume its only for youtube viewers. also P.S Ana if and when you decide to teach political science you should get my information and teach me pro bono. As I can’t afford college and I am regrettably a felon (Non-violent) (for the most part) so in my state of Florida it is ridiculously hard for felons to get grants or loans so get at me with that.

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