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Drift (linguistics)
Two types of language change can be characterized as linguistic drift: a unidirectional short-term and cyclic long-term drift.
Short-term unidirectional drift
According to Sapir, drift is the unconscious change in natural language. He gives the example Whom did you see? which is grammatically correct but is generally replaced by Who did you see? Structural symmetry seems to have brought about the change: all other wh- words are monomorphic (consisting of only one morpheme). The drift of speech changes dialects and, in long terms, it generates new languages. Although it may appear these changes have no direction, in general they do. For example, in the English language, there was the Great Vowel Shift, a chain shift of long vowels first described and accounted for in terms of drift by Jespersen (1909–1949). Another example of drift is the tendency in English to eliminate the -er comparative formative and to replace it with the more analytic more. Thus, we now regularly hear more kind and more happy instead of the prescriptive kinder, happier. In English, it may be the competition of the -er agentive suffix which has brought about this drift, i.e. the eventual loss of the Germanic comparative system in favor of the newer system calqued on French. Moreover, the structural asymmetry of the comparative formation may be a cause of this change.
Drift (telecommunication)
In telecommunication, a drift is a comparatively long-term change in an attribute, value, or operational parameter of a system or equipment. The drift should be characterized, such as "diurnal frequency drift" and "output level drift." Drift is usually undesirable and unidirectional, but may be bidirectional, cyclic, or of such long-term duration and low excursion rate as to be negligible.
Drift is also common in pseudo-synchronised streaming applications, such as low-latency audio streaming over TCP/IP. Normally both ends of a streaming connection would stay in-sync with a master clock but TCP/IP does not provide this 'master clock' mechanism. Therefore applications running fixed clocks will drift apart over time and glitches will occur. This is usually fixed by controlling jitter or drift, by slightly altering the clock speed at one end of the connection.
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Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- New World Dub 01 released: 2006
- Earth Octave Lounge, Volume 2 released: 2005
- Mana Medicine released: 2003
- Sky Dancing: Nada Masa, Volume 1 released: 2000
- Ambient Systems: Interior Horizons released: 1999
- Northern Circuits released: 1997
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- Food Not Bombs: Benefit Record released: 1997
- Conceptions of Mayhem released:
- One Day Savior / Eulogy Recordings Sampler released:
Food Not Bombs: Benefit Record
Released 1997- Aliénation
- Remise En Cause. Révolution. Dilemme
- The Busride
- Washington Park
- The Truth About San Diego
- Falling Down
- Luing Vines
- BBQ
- To Be Part of a Group
- Only the Faces Have Changed
- Adapt
- I May Be PC. But You're a Fucking Poseur.
- Welcome to Hell
- I Heard Songs About Animal Rights Aren't Cool Anymore
- [untitled]
- Words That Burn My Ears
One Day Savior / Eulogy Recordings Sampler
- We Are the Pale Horse
- A Short List of Last Requests
- Cave
- Alarmist
- The Reformation Takes Hold
- Shadows
- Born to Lose
- Silent Truths and Poisons
- Turn the Curse
- Heaven in a Letter Bomb
- Small Talk
- Sandbox Hopping
- The Long Fall
- The Beginning of the End of Sound
- Another Friend?
- Against
- Cold Shoulder on a Hot Summers Day
- Bury Your Dreams
- All We Need to Know
- End of August
- One Step Away
- Postcards Home
- Death Disguised as Salvation
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- Feat. Novika released: 2003
- Polskie Leniwe: Porcja Pierwsza released:
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- HTML: High Tension Music Level released:
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- Ribs is Touchin released:
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by: SpoutI drift away.
Away from you.
Coz I was so busy with myself.
The only one I've cared was me.
I was so blind.
Would I find a way back to you?
Would you take me back?
would you still hold me?
Or did we became strangers?
Is there still something between us?
Are we the same like yesterday?
I feel like drifting away.
Do we really live in the same world?
Or do I live in mine and you in yours?
Would I find a way back on your course?
Would I be the person you used to know?
Or just someone you don't know?
Like a person you've never seen before.
Would you let me in when I'm knocking on your door?
Would you let me in?
I was so busy with myself.
Now I drift away
Away from you.
I was so busy with myself.
Now I can't find a way.
A way back to you.
I'm drifting away.
Would I find a way back?
So many things changed.
Everything seems strange now.
Two people.
Different point of you.
We used to walk together.
Now we are like two different (passenger's?)
We used to talk togehter.
Now we ain't got nothing to say.
And all because I'm drifting away.
I drift away from where I used to stay.
Would you take me back, if I come back someday?
Or would you lock the door?
Would it be like it was before?
Before I decided to go.
Would you be the person I used to know?
Or just someone I don't know.
Like a person I've never seen before.
Would you let me in when I'm knocking at your door?
Would you let me in?
I was so busy with myself.
Now I drift away
Away from you.
I was so busy with myself.
Now I can't find a way.
A way back to you.
I was so busy with myself.
Now I drift away
Away from you.
I was so busy with myself.
Now I can't find a way.
A way back to you.
(No) a way back to you.
I was so busy with myself.
Now I drift away
Away from you.
I was so busy with myself.
Now I can't find a way.
A way back to you.
Back to you.
Back to you.
Back to you.
I drift away.
Back to you.
Back to you.
Back to you.
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