NewWorLdLog: U S

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

U S

–pronoun

the objective case of we, used as a direct or indirect object: They took us to the circus. She asked us the way.

Informal . (used in place of the pronoun we in the predicate after the verb to be ): It's us!

Informal . (used instead of the pronoun our before a gerund): She graciously forgave us spilling the gravy on the tablecloth.

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Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE; c. G, Goth uns

United States.

United States highway (used with a number): US 66.

Uncle Sam.

United Service.

United States.

where mentioned above. Origin:
< L ubi suprā

as above: a formula in judicial acts, directing that what precedes be reviewed.

O.E. us (cognate with O.S., O.Fris. us , O.N., Swed. oss ), accusative and dative pl. of we, from PIE *ns- (cf. Skt. nas , Avestan na , Hittite nash "us;" Gk. no "we two;" L. nos "we, us;" O.C.S. ny "us," nasu "our;" O.Ir. ni , Welsh ni "we, us"). The -n- is preserved in Gmc. in Du. ons , Ger. uns .

Abbreviations & Acronyms

ultrasound
unconditioned stimulus
Uniform System
United States
United States [highway]

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CEP Proposal

Deleuze & Guattari once wrote that “New York is virtually a city without a language...” [from Postulates of Linguistics in A Thousand Plateaus, 1923, pp. 103]. How provocative a statement to make about a city brimming with so many languages, dialects, slang etc. I thought. New York for me has always been, as for so many before me, a city of such artistic prestige and accomplishment, vitality and possibility. It has drawn young artists to its bright lights and wide streets for decades now, and it will continue to. Surely New York is a city without any ‘without’: a city of infinite possibility and opportunity, offering itself to all whom arrive, making them never want to leave, offering everything they need.

But I was too hasty; my argumentative cry against with their provocations would have been quickly silenced, had I read a little further on: “There is no language that does not have intralinguistic, endogenous, internal minorities...” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1923, pp103). But my silence was brought with a smile, with a sense of relief, of assurance. Just as I believe[d], and have argued, New York is a city without a language- without a set, solid and all-conforming ‘language’, but rather a multiplicity of tongue, of variations of the tongue, the lingua franca, of English. New York for me is a prime example of how all languages, exchanged by so many different people from such different places is continually being shaped, changed and modified, mutating every day through common shared discourse and people trying to make sense to each other.

Having been born in one country but then being raised between two countries has brought difficulty when pledging allegiance to either. I have felt neither here nor there, not this nor that. What happens to those who don't feel a part, or feel apart, from their surroundings? They start something new; they seek out new places to live and to start again, afresh. The historical implication of New York City having been built ex nihilo by such a wide group of people(s) having travelled from their Old World in search of the New, ready to build themselves a New life in new contexts has always inspired me to travel and work there, to also become a part of the engagement with the 'new' moving away from the old, the traditional, the conventional, the usual, the obvious. I can see a direct link between this state of mind, towards progression through experimentation, in my journey to art and performance College and my future journey to New York and the USA, to frame my questions around the 'New' within city whose very name and ethos is just that.

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