So I noticed this on one of my last viewings of The Prince of Egypt and I absolutely love it. I wanted to take some screenshots to show you, because this is really cool.
During the “When You Believe” sequence, you see these two Egyptian guards throw down their spears and walk off, seemingly nowhere.
But if you watch the background during the following Red Sea scenes, you see this:
Those two guards actually went with the Hebrews.
You even see them helping out as they try to cross the ocean floor.
And here they are on the other side.
I seriously never noticed them until recently, and I’ve seen this movie countless times.
Not only did these background characters get shown abandoning their role as soldiers, the very ones who probably directly oppressed these people, but the animators continued to place them in the shots during the Red Sea sequence. Meaning they were meant to be there. I just think that’s really really freaking cool.
for real though, internet english is STAGGERINGLY multi-modal. the problem with communicating via writing is that you lose certain dimensions of spoken conversation, like intonation, facial expression, body language, pauses and fillers etc, but there’s been so many linguistic innovations to maintain richness in communication, like
- emojis/emoticons
- use of capslock and purposefully creating/not fixing typos to convey excitement, or likewise not capitalizing anything
- use of punctuation (or lack thereof) to indicate /emphasis/ or ~irony~ or apathy
- reaction images and memes
- use of familiar songs in tumblr text posts or vines etc
- variational spellings like you/u or true/tru
- bolding, italics, strikethrough, font size, line breaks, etc
- (using parentheses to whisper)
- tags as commentary, also the body of commonly used/commonly mocked hashtags
like i could go ON and ON about the things that internet language users have created to get around the difficulties of non-verbal communication, like ??? what other dialects can do all that and change that much in 30 years????
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