Honors Human Geography

            The Recording is about a Persian insult, Inuit language, foreign movies and Urdu words.  The first point covered is the Persian insult. This was about the Iran president using a term that is uncommon for a high office to say. This stirred up controversy and excitement. People feel since he is the president he should not use the slang terms.  Though others may feel he is using the people’s language. This is the debate everyone is having in Iran right now.

            The second point is about a dying society. This is how a man is going to live in an Inuit community for a year and learn their ways. He is trying to record their ways of life and their language. Also he is trying to save their whole culture from going into extinction or being modernized. This is a very important thing to do because it is saving a culture and a native language.

            The third thing covered in the recording is foreign movies. Foreign movies are a so called dying breed; they are beginning to lose more and more interest and viewers. The styles of showing them have changed a lot too. They used to just show the movie in a local theater then hoped it got spread by word of mouth. Now they show it in a big theater for important critics and then they would have the movie on demand the next day.

            The final point covered is the mass confusion in the Urdu language. The Urdu language has one word with two different meanings. The first example is tomorrow and yesterday. They both are the same word in Urdu but they mean opposite things. People have trouble understanding them but use the verbs in the sentence to make it more understandable. The second example is to go straight and turn right. Like the first example but there are no verbs to tell them apart.