Isabelle: Racing Legend

I donā€™t play Animal Crossing, so the last few weeks on social media have been Greek to me. However, I have been playing a lot of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Iā€™ve discovered something. Isabelle rocks. I typically race as either Toad or Toadette. The small, compact characters (or Light) take turns better, especially on…

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Islandology: Bakhtin & Animalese

Weā€™re going to be talking about a few terms from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, a 20th century Russian literary critic and semiotician. First of all, ā€œheteroglossia.ā€ Heteroglossia is:  ā€œthe base condition governing the operation of meaning in any utterance. It is that which insures the primacy of context over text. At any given time,…

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