Varieties of English
The plural words for a big group of octopuses.
What are octopi
The author of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
Who is Ursula K. Le Guin
A conspiracy theory that involves believing Hillary Clinton is part of a satanic cult that eats babies.
What is pizzagate?
A movie that mixes interviews and acted segments to warn about the dangers of algorithms and big tech.
What is The Social Dilemma?
The students that led the classes between week 7 and 14.
Who are Anna and Silja?
"Robot", when said by a person from South Africa.
What is a traffic light?
A sub - genre of science fiction that comments on political and social issues, but does not delve deep into the technical details of the science.
What is soft science fiction.
According to Cambridge dictionary: “the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment”.
What is bias?
Popular, but controversial, due to ethical concerns and fears over people losing their jobs.
What is ChatGPT/AI/LLMs?
NOT a reliable source, because it says so itself.
What is Wikipedia?
A language used to communicate between people that don't share a native language.
What is a lingua franca?
The PEEL Method is constructed by these four elements
What is the name of the writing method in which you use Point, evidenece, explanation, link
False information shared and spread with the intent to be misleading.
What is disinformation?
The landmark decision by the US supreme court in 1973 that argued that the constitution protects the right to an abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Isak's favorite track off Charli xcx's "BRAT".
What is "Apple"?
A consonant where the flow of air is forced through a small space, like /f/ and /s/.
What is a fricative?
Popular literary device where seemingly contradictory words are connected. "The Sound of Silence"
What is an oxymoron?
Most people would probably agree that CNN is this type of news outlet.
What is left-leaning/left-skewing?
Segregated on the basis of religious lines, both historically and today.
What is Northern Ireland?
A poem or song lyric where you find the line "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
What is Ozymandias?
Generally: Australia, England, and South Africa are NOT, but Canada, USA, and Ireland ARE places where you find this linguistic feature.
What is rhoticity?
An unstressed-stressed pattern paired with five feet, in poetry.
What is iambic pentameter?
The movie "Spotlight" (2015) involves a team doing this specific type of work.
What is investigate journalism?
An attempt to discredit an argument by personally attacking the person making it.
What is an ad hominem (fallacy)?
"The horse raced past the barn fell" is a typical example of this kind of sentence.
What is a garden-path sentence?