Drift
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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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by Teriyaki Boyz
Tokyo drift
by: Teriyaki BoyzI wonder if you know
How they live in Tokyo
(Hai!)
If you seen it then you mean it
Then you know you have to go
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
I wonder if you know
How they live in Tokyo
(Hai!)
If you seen it then you mean it
Then you know you have to go
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Hey rasshai omachidousama
Kensou mamire konomachi no ensou dama
Konomama ichido tuite oide
Sekaijuu miryousuru hodoni goukana
Japan, Ichiban
Jump around saa uchirano deban
Teriyaki Boyz in the place to be
Mise ni aru harigami VIP
Many many diamonds danglin'
Back for the money we stranglin'
Hate me, fry me, bake me, try me
All the above ‘cause you can't get in
I don't want no problem
Because me professional
Make you, shake you, ketsuatu, thank you
Haters take it personal
[Incomprehensible]
I wonder if you know
How they live in Tokyo
(Hai!)
If you seen it then you mean it
Then you know you have to go
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Hai watashi Teriyaki Boyz
Atto iuma fukitobasu noise
Maishin shitemasu [in the ghetto?]
Tou no kazu mo fuete masu
Basic wa surprise da
Maji mainichi ga abunai ze
Ninja fuu kenjya fuu dakedo geisha
[Incomprehensible] wasei karano shisha
Should see me in the parking lot
7-Eleven is the spot
Mice with wings and shiny things
And lions, tigers, bears, oh my ride
We're furious and fast
Supersonic like JJ Phat
An' we rock ‘cause the wheels are fly
Can't beat that with a baseball bat
[Incomprehensible]
Kokusaiteki hanzai
Noridasu
Far east coast
Watashi no koisuto]
I wonder if you know
How they live in Tokyo
(Hai!)
If you seen it then you mean it
Then you know you have to go
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Ya ichiban manihichi dokidoki da
Kitto island [incomprehensible] tobitobi da
Moreru youshi de bochibochi ne
Tamani [incomprehensible] kochikochi ne
Kitto apple tourisou
Maishuu subette norikomu
Meccha kawarimon dattesa hou[Incomprehensible]
It's gotta be the shoes, gotta be the furs
That's why ladies choose me
All up in the news ‘cause we so cute
That's why we so huge
Harajuku girls know how I feel
They respect, I keeps it real
Not a Chinaman ‘cause I ain't from China man
I am Japan man
(Watashi wa Tokyo suki)
You see him come and go out of the black Benz SLR
(Watashi no kuruma suteki)
You wonder where he get that kind of money?
(Atana mo Tokyo suki)
Don't worry about it
(Anata no kutuma suteki)
Let's go
I wonder if you know
How they live in Tokyo
(Hai!)
If you seen it then you mean it
Then you know you have to go
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
I wonder if you know
How they live in Tokyo
(Hai!)
If you seen it then you mean it
Then you know you have to go
Fast and furious
(Kita)
Tick, tick, tick
Fast and furious
(Kita)