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    1. The Last Sark

      "The Last Sark" is a dialect poem, written in the Scots language. As Florence S. Boos notes: "The everyday speech of all classes of Victorian Scotland was probably some version of Scots" (55). While it was common for Scottish authors to write in Standardized English, dialect poetry tended to be looked down upon and efforts of Scottish poets to write in traditionally English poetic forms, such as blank verse, removed them from the common Scot (54). As such, Scottish (and especially Glaswegian) working-class poets "expected no wider English audience" (56) and instead wrote more towards an audience of their peers.

  2. Nov 2025
    1. As a form, fanfictions make intertextuality visible because they rely on readers' ability to see relationships between the fan-writer's stories and the original media sources.

      What many people who brush fan fiction off as irrelevant tend to ignore is the vast understanding of a pre-existing setting needed to contextualize the writings made, as well as the effort and organization required to properly build off of such settings.

    2. What they were less likely to say explicitly, but what seemed clear to us, was that fanfiction writing also helped to develop and solidify relationships with various friends, online or otherwise.

      Writing, for many, tends to be most rewarding when you can share it with someone. To show others your ability to express thoughts, emotions, and ideas through your use of language is helpful in gaining confidence and experience, and this is even more true when you receive direct criticism as well.

    1. Her point is this: Metaphors are so often visual in nature, that we tend to equate understanding something with the ability to visualise it. Which explain why Einstein–always a visual thinkers–hated quantum mechanics. Because while the standard model helps making perfect mathematical sense of particle physics, it’s simply not possible to visualise what it proves to be true. But here’s the thing: metaphors don’t have to be visual in nature, and in fact going beyond the visual often allows us to naturally accommodate ambiguity. Trompe l’oeil images are just as maddening and hard to let go of as trying to visualise a quark that exists simultaneously in multiple places, but anyone can attest to feelings of ‘being torn‘ or ‘in two minds‘. Time is another metaphor that is notoriously hard to visualise, which hasn’t stopped anyone from experiencing it. Again it’s also a phenomenon that most of us feel behave in a highly irrational manner; slowing to a creep in one moment only to jump into action the next. The point that Julia Ravanis makes, the perspective she helps me see, is that quantum mechanics doesn’st have to ‘not make sense’. That the act of sense-making includes a chosen perspective, and that being mindful that there are more than one possible, even within science, means that the boundaries between it and the humanities are crumbling.

      [[Julia Ravanis]] in [[Skönheten i Kaos by Julia Ravanis]] is here said to argue that a way of moving past 'quantum mechanics does not make sense' is by letting go of default (visual) metaphors and using other metaphors that can embrace ambiguity. This sounds somewhat like [[Is het nieuwe uit te leggen in taal van het oude 20031104104340]] or even [[Avoid greedy reductionism 20041114065928]] accusation levelled here at Einstein.

    1. we can’t recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak for the very first time

      for - unlearning language - key insight - language - cannot recapture same process we used as child - cannot recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak language for the very first time - basically, we lose access to that original vocal learning circuit as an adult - question - language learning - what is this vocal learning circuit of an infant? - why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child? - observation - clue - language - accidental world recall and substitution - a clue to how we remember words - I wrote the above sentence "why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?" when I meant to write: - "why do we LOSE access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?' - This very observation also has the same mistake: - "observation - clue - language - accidental world" instead of: - observation - clue - language - accidental WORD"! - I've noticed this accidental word substitution when we are in the midst of automatically composing sentences quite often and have also wondered about it often. - I think it offers an important clue about how we remember words, and that is critical for recall for using language itself. - We must store words in clusters that are indicated by the accidental recall

    2. language attrition

      for - from - search - Google - Can we unlearn language? - https://hyp.is/Ywp_fr0cEfCqhMeAP0vCVw/www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language?&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1

    1. for - search prompt 2 - can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? - https://www.google.com/search?q=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+experience+pre-linguistic+reality+like+an+infant+who+hasn%27t+learned+language+yet%3F&sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&biw=1920&bih=911&sxsrf=AE3TifNnrlFbCZIFEvi7kVbRcf_q1qVnNw%3A1762660496627&ei=kBAQafKGJry_hbIP753R4QE&ved=0ahUKEwjyjouGluSQAxW8X0EAHe9ONBwQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+experience+pre-linguistic+reality+like+an+infant+who+hasn%27t+learned+language+yet%3F&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAid2NhbiBhbiBhZHVsdCB3aG8gaGFzIGxlYXJuZWQgbGFuZ3VhZ2UgZXhwZXJpZW5jZSBwcmUtbGluZ3Vpc3RpYyByZWFsaXR5IGxpa2UgYW4gaW5mYW50IHdobyBoYXNuJ3QgbGVhcm5lZCBsYW5ndWFnZSB5ZXQ_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-K1A7IHCTItOC41Mi4xMbgHgcUBwgcHMzUuNDcuMsgHcQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp - from - search prompt 1 - can we unlearn language? - https://hyp.is/Ywp_fr0cEfCqhMeAP0vCVw/www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language?&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1 - to - search prompt 2 (AI) - can an adult who has learned language re-experience pre-linguistic phenomena like an infant with no language training? - https://hyp.is/m0c7ZL0jEfC8EH_WK3prmA/www.google.com/search?q=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+re-experience+pre-linguistic+phenomena+like+an+infant+with+no+language+training?&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAjIHCAIQIRiPAtIBCTQzNzg4ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&udm=50&ved=2ahUKEwjfrLqDm-SQAxWDZEEAHcxqJgkQ0NsOegQIAxAB&aep=10&ntc=1&mstk=AUtExfAG148GJu71_mSaBylQit3n4ElPnveGZNA48Lew3Cb_ksFUHUNmWfpC0RPR_YUGIdx34kaOmxS2Q-TjbflWDCi_AIdYJwXVWHn-PA6PZM5edEC6hmXJ8IVcMBAdBdsEGfwVMpoV_3y0aeW0rSNjOVKjxopBqXs3P1wI9-H6NXpFXGRfJ_QIY1qWOMeZy4apWuAzAUVusGq7ao0TctjiYF3gyxqZzhsG5ZtmTsXLxKjo0qoPwqb4D-0K-uW-xjkyJj0Bi45UPFKl-Iyabi3lHKg4udEo-3N4doJozVNoXSrymPSQbr2tdWcxw93FzdAhMU9QZPnl89Ty1w&csuir=1&mtid=WBYQaYfuHYKphbIPzYmKiAs

    1. for - from - search prompt 2 - can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? - https://hyp.is/mCyiOr0iEfCIKdv78XDi9w/www.google.com/search?q=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+experience+pre-linguistic+reality+like+an+infant+who+hasn%27t+learned+language+yet?&sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&biw=1920&bih=911&sxsrf=AE3TifNnrlFbCZIFEvi7kVbRcf_q1qVnNw:1762660496627&ei=kBAQafKGJry_hbIP753R4QE&ved=0ahUKEwjyjouGluSQAxW8X0EAHe9ONBwQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+experience+pre-linguistic+reality+like+an+infant+who+hasn%27t+learned+language+yet?&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAid2NhbiBhbiBhZHVsdCB3aG8gaGFzIGxlYXJuZWQgbGFuZ3VhZ2UgZXhwZXJpZW5jZSBwcmUtbGluZ3Vpc3RpYyByZWFsaXR5IGxpa2UgYW4gaW5mYW50IHdobyBoYXNuJ3QgbGVhcm5lZCBsYW5ndWFnZSB5ZXQ_SKL1AlAAWIziAnAPeAGQAQCYAaEEoAHyoAKqAQwyLTE0LjczLjE0LjO4AQPIAQD4AQGYAlSgApnFAcICBBAjGCfCAgsQABiABBiRAhiKBcICDRAAGIAEGLEDGEMYigXCAgsQLhiABBixAxiDAcICDhAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGMcBwgIEEAAYA8ICBRAuGIAEwgIKECMYgAQYJxiKBcICChAAGIAEGEMYigXCAg4QLhiABBixAxiDARiKBcICExAuGIAEGLEDGNEDGEMYxwEYigXCAggQABiABBixA8ICCBAuGIAEGLEDwgIFEAAYgATCAgsQLhiABBixAxiKBcICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIoFwgIGEAAYFhgewgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAgsQABiABBiGAxiKBcICCBAAGKIEGIkFwgIIEAAYgAQYogTCAgUQABjvBcICBhAAGA0YHsICBRAhGKABwgIHECEYoAEYCsICBRAhGJ8FwgIEECEYFcICBBAhGAqYAwCSBwwxMy4wLjguNTIuMTGgB-K1A7IHCTItOC41Mi4xMbgHgcUBwgcHMzUuNDcuMsgHcQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

    1. for - search - Google - Can we unlearn language? - https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language%3F&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1 search results returned - interesting - to - article - Can You Unlearn A Language? - IFLScience It's definitely possible to lose fluency in your native language, but research suggests you're unlikely to forget it altogether. - https://hyp.is/MdiWar0dEfC4ajvO0fJCkA/www.iflscience.com/can-you-unlearn-a-language-70874 - from - Linkedin post - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/pIMO8rzIEfCPtcvbQ8nTxg/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7392196128005537792/

      new search prompt - This prompt did not give me the results I was looking for - Need to refine the prompt - Can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? - to - new search prompt - can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? -

    1. for - language - unlearn - language attrition - language - unlearn - new prompt

      summary - language unlearn - new prompt - I didn't really find what I was looking for in following my Google search for "Can we unlearn language?" - Almost all the results returned are about how an unintended consequence of learning a second language is forgetting our first one, a process called "language attrition" - However, I'm more interested in what it would be like to see reality WITHOUT a language. - Since I'm asking the question as an adult who has already learned a language or two, I posed the question "Can we unlearn language?" - However, I'm not interested in it from the perspective of a second language user perse, I'm interested in whether it is possible to re-experience the infant's experience of NOT HAVING ANY LANGUAGE TRAINING AT ALL. - I have to search with this prompt instead

    1. for - to - search - Google - Can we unlearn language? - https://hyp.is/Ywp_fr0cEfCqhMeAP0vCVw/www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language?&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1

    2. Your brain is incredible at pattern recognitionBut this superpower has a dark side:Once you see a pattern, it becomes incredibly hard to "unsee" it.You become trapped in your own mental models.

      for - adjacency - learning - unlearning - ritual - language - BEing journey - question - Could we apply ritual to unlearn language? - quote - Your brain is incredible at pattern recognition. But this superpower has a dark side: - Once you see a pattern, it becomes incredibly hard to "unsee" it. - You become trapped in your own mental models - John Vervaeke

      adjacency - learning - unlearning - ritual - language - BEing journey - Could we apply ritual to break the pattern of language? This could be an interesting BEing journey!

    1. technogenesis

      for - definition - technogenesis - the continuous reciprocal causality between human bodies and technics - N. Katherine Hayles - adjacency - technology - language - human evolution - Deep Humanity - Technology does have a huge impact on human evolution - As the book The Inheritors demonstrates, language is perhaps the most far-reaching human technology of all and it affects our evolution in profound ways

    1. for - article - LinkedIn - Has Language trapped humanity? - pre linguistic reality

      Summary - very interesting exploration of our pre linguistic life - We modern humans spend most of our lives in the symbolosphere. - It is so ubiquitous that we don't even know it's relative and not absolute, like fish that don't know there's such a thing as water - until they are pulled out of it - Feral children are the ones who have been pulled out of the ocean of language, but they suffer a fate that none of us, from our conditioned language perspective would want to suffer - So how do we, who are deeply conditioned into language look at our situation of being so deeply conditioned? Is there life after (and before) language?

  3. getwacup.com getwacup.com
    1. It is however not being done as an open source project & there are other options out there if that's something you need your software to be. It does rely on open source libraries & a number of modified plug-ins for which their changes are being provided to comply with their code licensing requirements. Ultimately I don't want to spend the time to run a properly done open source project when there's no guarantee of any assistance vs the overhead involved & my time management isn't great so spending more time on project management isn't imho a good use of my time.
  4. Oct 2025
    1. for - from - search - Google - how new words divide the world in new ways - https://hyp.is/55MHUKUxEfC-TAfy9q1VjA/www.google.com/search?q=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&oq=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigAdIBCDgwODFqMGo0qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

      • book review - The Language Animal
        • self awareness emerges out of intersubjectivity
        • like Melanie Klein
        • relationship is necessary to form self identity
        • culture and language are intertwingled
        • “The basic thesis of this book is that language can only be understood if we understand its constitutive role in human life.”
    1. These children taught me that tables do not exist. That anything does. And they did it every day with a simple game over and over and over. Of course, it works with anything. And I finally called that game "Let's destroy a table." (Laughter) Or "Let's destroy anything,"

      for - language - game - let's destroy anything - adjacency - game - let's destroy anything - Buddhist teachings on interdependent origination - this game reminds me of Buddhist teachings on interdependent origination - nothing really has an essential nature - if you try to look for it in its parts, you won't find it

  5. Sep 2025
    1. I'm now rendering a cup. that the cup that I rendered is no longer there. You might render your cup. You might say, "Well, no, Don, you're wrong. The cup is still there. I can see it." No, you're rendering your cup. And so you you're you're not rendering my cup. I rendered my cup

      for - adjacency - perspectival knowing - rendering - learned in child development - language usage - This is an interesting use of the word "render" to demonstrate how even shared human experiences are still uniquely seen from different perspectives - We impute objective reality, for instance of the cup, even though we are each uniquely rendering it in different ways - It is a direct result of our child development in which we learned how to employ words to label such social contexts - We establish rules for word usage at an early age, but we forget the original conditions which gave rise to them - When we remind ourselves of the original motivation, it is a bit of a shock to the system how strange this reality is

  6. Jul 2025
    1. Your intrapersonal communication begins before you give structure to your ideas through verbal or nonverbal communication. You are constantly talking to yourself in your mind. Your brain sifts through memories, thoughts, and ideas. In this inner conversation, you plan what you are going to say, compute what you have heard or seen, and compare what you’ve experienced to what you are experiencing now. How you communicate with yourself affects all other communication.
  7. Jun 2025
    1. for - article - substack - Annick De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - from - article - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview"\ - https://hyp.is/oqgW2ivdEfCmu9M8EYHozw/www.linkedin.com/posts/bayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW/ - to - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipfs.indy0.net%2Fipfs%2Fbafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy&group=world - from - Substack article - Can and should expect a spiritual Revolution any time soon? - Michel Bauwens - https://hyp.is/JDDTADInEfCKmLNKpwhsng/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/can-and-should-we-expect-a-spiritual

      summary - Annick de Witt takes the reader on a journey of discovery of that looks at the nuances of the complex set of entangled crisis we face today, by referring to the idea of worldviews - She shows how the quagmires now emerging are the result of interplay between three major worldviews, traditional, modern and post-modern and how each represents a partial truth that denies the partial truths held by the others - The article takes the example of Trumpism and the MAGA movement to illustrate, but the same analysis could be extended to the many different cultural worldviews found in different peoples around the globe - In particular, with Trump's recent decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, tensions between the traditional Islamic culture and the West's traditional, modern and post-modern segments of society are again on the rise - The insightful analysis culminates in the proposal for an integral worldview that includes all three but transcends each one - It may be useful to introduce Annick to Greg Henrique's Unified Theory of Knowledge (UToK), - https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/ - Gregg works with John Vervaeke that Annick has cited - Regarding Bayo Akomolafe's short LinkedIn note on the word "worldview", I respect both Annick's detailed analysis as well as Bayo's interpretation and look forward to a comparative analylsis of these two perspectives around the word "worldview" - I am also in the middle of annotating Lisa E. Maroski's book, Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language, which is salient here as well

      Indyweb dev - new Plexmark - analog affirmation slider - while reading the passage I was annotating, I realised that I was in agreement with a lot of what the author was articulating. However, I have no way to indicate this match because it would be too much - this gave rise to a new Plexmark: <br /> - Have an analog control slider for each sentence that indicates - agreement on one side and - disagreement on the other side as well as a - 'don't know' button. - This gives a running indication of resonance with your own salience landscape - This can then be used in conjunction with the Indranet - If there is an indication of strong agreement, then the reader may have strong motivation to investigate that author's mindplex, - especially if there is a strong salience mismatch between the author and the reader, indicating a possible learning event

      Retrospective reflections - (See below) adjacency - sacred - relationship with - free - open source - what is your relationship with the sacred? - this is the same as asking - how do you feel in your time of solitude and aloneness? - do you feel deep connection and a sense of not being lonely while you are alone? - to be alienated if not to feel disconnected with others - as it is to be disconnected with the ceaseless sacred that continuously surrounds you, from birth to death

      • I propose that the post-modern worldview should be renamed
      • why?
      • it is a name that is dependent on the second major worldview, modernism
      • while the first two worldviews have autonomous names, the third, postmodernism is not autonomous but depends on the second
      • the word integral is a good candidate to replace it
      • it means integration of both traditional and modern

      • two central ideas of Deep Humanity praxis fit into these three worldview

        • progress
        • death awareness
      • worldviews can be seen from a progress framed perspective
      • progress is a movement from traditional to modern
        • conservatism focuses on the traditional pole while
        • liberalism focuses on the modern pole
        • postmodernism is a universal, cultural retroactive reflection on the relationship between both
      • death awareness is a major focus on traditional knowledge systems but

        • postmodernism can definitely benefit from integrating it to provide
          • an integral, inclusive approach that deals effectively with
            • the meaning crisis faced by a secular, modern perspective that has
              • rejected traditional religions without replacing it with anything substantive
      • June 27, 2025 - modernism - objective reality - validation - example - personal experience - beeping electricity meter

        • my wife woke me up in the morning and said that the electricity meter is beeping again.
        • I couldn't hear it because my heating isn't as good as hers
        • I trust her when she says this
        • I walked out of the bedroom too go downstairs and turn it off and a soon as I got around the corner in the bedroom, I can hear the beeping sound
        • The easiest explanation for these two different experiences is that the is an existent objective reality which each of us experienced differently ( Occam's Razor)
          • the electricity meter was indeed beeping
        • The post modern. explanation would likely revolve around quantum mechanics but if far from simple or obvious
    1. every layer of the modern computing landscape has been built upon the assumption that users are passive recipients rather than active co-creators. What we need instead are computing systems that invite every user to gradually become a creator.

      Is "creator" the right word here? There's lots of software that falls outside of what is the subject of this paper that enables creators. Indeed, it has been a common refrain in criticisms of the FOSS movement that for the types of software that creatives need and/or simply desire to use the proprietary apps tend to have no equals.

    1. The Welsh 'll' is how we write the phoneme (sound) /ɬ/ which is called the voiceless lateral fricative. This sound is not a part of English phonology. In fact the only other European language which has it is Icelandic and then it's only found in clusters. Because English lacks the /ɬ/ sound, people who are unfamiliar with it often struggle to articulate it. Depending on where it is in a word, the English speaker will approximate it as /k/ before /l/ (klan for llan), or as /l/ in isolation (alan for allan) and sometimes /θl/ in medial position (Lanethli for Llanelli). People will always approximate a phoneme which is alien to them. Just as English speakers do not pronounce the French and German /y/ as /y/ but usually as something like /u/. Often phonemes like /x/ and /χ/ are realised as /k/ (e.g. lock for Scottish loch).

      https://www.reddit.com/r/learnwelsh/comments/1l8o22q/why_do_some_people_pronounce_llan_as_klan/

  8. May 2025
    1. Software does not need dusting, waxing, or cleaning.  It often does have faults that do need attention, but this is not maintenance, but repair.  Repair is fixing something that has been broken by tinkering with it, or something that has been broken all along.  Conversely, as the environment around software changes, energy must be expended to keep it current.  This is not maintenance; holding steady to prevent decline.
    1. Experience takes the lead but it is anexperience widened by speech. One can thereby identify a basic tension within thephenomenological treatment of language: on the one hand, phenomenology subordinates speechto experience; on the other, phenomenology identifies the reciprocity of speech and experience.Heidegger’s signature if enigmatic formula, “Language is the house of being,” expresses just thisreciprocity (Heidegger 1998a, 39

      for - to - book Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa argues that language and consciousness are two sides of the same coin - adjacency - Heidegger - Symbolosphere - to - symbolosphere annotations - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Symbolosphere adjacency - between - Heidegger's position on language - the symbolosphere - adjacency relationship - The symbolosphere is an individual or group's world of symbols - Modern humans inhabit the symbolosphere, - in fact, we spend the majority of our lives in the symbolosphere

    2. Experienceenriches language by rooting its structures in the robust structures of perceived things(perceiving the skin as sunburned fills out the meaning of “My skin is sunburned”)

      for - key insight - language - induction leads to general categories - neonates experience reality as a continuous, unbroken stream of consciousness - To form objects required object permanence - which in turn requires us to impute general categories first, - which is constructed upon a process of induction - based on the raw material of particular, remembered gestaltic experiences - ideas ( and therefore words) are essentially constructed categories that allow us to unite entire series of remembered, gestaltic experiences of phenomenological reality - Consider the author's example of sunburned skin: - Suppose the is an infant for whom the word 'skin' does not have a meaning. - The infant may have experienced many separate pre-linguistic, gestaltic experiences involving his skin: - sunburned skin - itchy skin - skin scalded by hot water - skin that is cold - dirty skin from playing in the dirt - clean skin after waking the dirt off - cut skin from a knife cutting it accidentally in the kitchen - bandaged and healed skin - All of these gestaltic experiences, when accompanied by the appropriate vocalisations of the caretaker who is present that use the word 'skin' help the infant to construct the category meaning of the word 'skin' - Early language training is an induction-intensive process - Unless we learn how to construct abstract categories at a young age, we cannot become proficient abstract language users as adults - By abstract, I mean the category nature of word s and ideas, which give them their flexibility and modularity

    1. Karl Abel’s book Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

      for - timebinding - Karl Abel - Sigmund Freud - Gebser - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words] - language construction - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

    2. consider to be polarities. Differentiation of the poles of a polarity into separateconcepts, then, would emerge after the underlying form of experience (thetraversing of terrain or the passage of time, or, simply, ongoingness of expe-rience of a cyclical nature) was noticed and exploited for some purpose, suchas safety or ease. For example, it is easier moving through the forest by day,and it is cooler moving through the desert at night. There was survival valuein distinguishing different aspects of unified experience.

      for - key insight - language - emergence of polarity - evolutionary fitness

    3. vocal communication. Indeed, we learn to use language before we understandlanguage, as exemplified by a friend’s 2-year-old grandson who adeptly appliedwords he had heard his parents say and demanded that “someone change myfucking diaper!” We learn to understand language before we learn to questionlanguage. Rarely do we learn to question language itself.

      for - key insight - language - unanswerable questions of the experienced language user - we learn to apply language long before we know what it is.

      analysis - Language allows us to ask questions about our reality, but there are certain questions that are intrinsically unanswerable - As an experienced language user, we cannot know what our experience of reality would be like had we not learned a language

    4. ivein paradox might be uncomfortable, even terrifying, at first, given our culturalabhorrence of it. To recategorize that which our current category structureconsiders an “object” (e.g., a tree, rock, or your computer) as a subject-object,we need to revise deeply held assumptions, beliefs, and ways of relating toall types of “others.” For example, we will need to understand the implicitassumption that, when I refer to “that X” (e.g., you, or that tree, or eventhat book), I am referring to an expanded sense of myself as subject-object.

      for - gestalt switch - nondual language - deorient ourselves - true nature of mind practice - language shift - for this to work requires a gestalt switch paradigm shift - it goes beyond intellectual and requires full immersion, not to - re-orient ourselves, but to - de-orient ourselves

    5. What Bohm perceived 40 years ago has since been magnified. To be freefrom the constraints of fragmentary worldviews, it is necessary to see how thelanguage we use, especially the father tongue, is deeply enmeshed with andexpressive of a fragmentary worldview

      for - adjacency - question - Daivd Bohm - language - separation - dualism - question - is it at all possible to use language AND have a non fragmentary worldview? - If by fragmentary we mean dualistic, then I do not see how it is even possible.

    6. for - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - book - review - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - adjacency - Lisa's conlanger - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - Indyweb - provenance - Deep Humanity - language BEing journey - author - Lisa E. Maroski - to - post - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - from 'belief' to 'apolief" - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2Fbayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW%2F&group=world

      new trailmark - summary to review - the word "review" may be a better trailmark word than "summary" - At this point, I will replace "summary" with "review" in the case of book or article reviews

      review - Lisa's book is an insightful convergence of an important but ignored subject, the experiential intersection between language and consciousness. - Her understanding that language plays an important role in constructing our reality leads to a bold and novel proposal, especially salient at this time of global poly-meta-perma-meaning crisis. - She proposes that we individually and collectively experiment and explore creating new words and language structures that transcend the limitations of our existing language - If patterns of language usage traps us in outdated conceptual paradigms, then breaking out of these may be challenging, if not impossible, without the creation of new linguistic and language structures. - From a Stop Reset Go and Deep Humanity perpsective, Lisa's proposal for practical experimentation with constructing new languages to unleash new forms of expression is very aligned to Deep Humanity BEing journeys - As I read and annotate Lisa's book, any potential linguistic and language BEing journeys that her words inspired will be recorded for posterity

      Addendum - note from journal - 2025, May 8 - reflections on Lisa's book - asynchronous communication is only one half of indyweb     - the other half is asynchronous REFLECTION AND SYNTHESIS - Effective timebinding requires both     - Annotation captures interpersonal shared ideas     - journalling captures ours own unique synthesis only emerges from asynchronous reflections of our existent associative network of ideas and the newly ingested interpersonal ones - Annotations capture the novel and newly inputted interpersonal ones     - but annotation currently only applies to hypothesis - it needs to expand to realtime meetings such as zoom calls, emails, socials media comments and socials media chats in order to be complete - Until now, there has not been a medium with sufficient set of affordances to unleash the affordances potential in language itself - While digital media has existed and rapidly developed for the past 5 decades,     - employing and leveraging it to unleash the full potential of language itself has not ever been conceived of until the concept of Indyweb arrived - Indeed, we could make the claim that the indyweb is a foundational human technology on the same order as language itself because it completes language, revealing its empty ( shunyata) quality, thereby     - uniting it with the universe itself -  From the unlimited potential of the tacit,     - the limited forms of words emerge, both are 2 sides off the same nondual coin     - and unleashing the full , unrealized potential of language - It is the provenance aspect of the indyweb that provides an automatic trail of all our learning journey, making both the     - individual and     - intertwingled collective evolution of ideas available as records for. timebinding posterity

      • when we feel in a good state of health and wellbeing and absent of any disease
        • we feel when everything is within harmony in our temporary state of being alive
      • Any disease shows us how the diseases-free state is so fragilely constructed
      • disease-free is an and condition of many subsystems working together harmoniously -aspectualizing is creating
        • a perspective,
        • a word
        • an idea
      • the greatest freedom of afforded when we are free of all perspectives
        • for that is when a new perspective can emerge
      • When we cling to words and ideas, we cling to perspectives and aspects of the whole
      • The teaching of one taste is the highest and most subtle teaching - equal taste - and easiest to be misinterpreted
        • because we are anchored in the world of many different tastes and of measurement and scale,
          • where some things are greater than others on our scale
      • Bayo Akomolafe does some language construction - conlangering on his LinkedIn post on the derivation of the word "apolief" from "belief"
    7. polar regions. The melting of sea ice and ice sheets is not palpable to most.” 201Climate change is invisible when we consider ourselves separate from Gaia

      for - adjacency - hyperobject - language of separation - new trailmark format - adjacency

      adjacency - hyperobject -- language of separation - There is another related reason that many people do not value climate crisis - these concepts are hyperobjects - objects so large that they are beyond the scope of evolutionarily evolved salience - language evolved within humans to deal with environmental events that were salient to our immediate survival - the climate crisis is steeped in complex science and applies to the entire planet, something that humans were never evolved to cognitively apprehend

    8. For a sociocultural shift to happen, individual shifts must occur. Thus,it might be useful to turn to one’s own lived sense of paradox in order toappreciate it in the broader context. How does Kleinian awareness/intuition/comprehension/aperspectivity presentiate in your everyday life? Facing personal

      for - embracing paradox, evolving language!

    9. discussed above? In other words, how do we revise logic to grant paradox whereit is required? What new kinds of paradoxical concepts might better expressthe complexities of our ecological, economic, and other post-postmoderncontexts and systems? Is it possible to work them into the syntax of our exist-

      for - adjacency - language - embedding paradox - my poem - To be or not to be, that is the question - To be AND not to be, that is the answer!

    10. To find ways to enable full-spectrum language to embrace paradox, itwill be necessary to move into the paradigm of both/and. However, there areno agreed-upon conventions for expressing categories, logic, concepts, andsign-vehicles that partake of both/and-ness. We will need to invent ways toconvey nonduality, interdependent co-arising, and paraconsistency in ordinarylanguage.

      for - language - both / and-ness

    11. The metaphors in the passage above are also familiar: RAIN IS AKNIFE that pierces drought. Although the content words that comprise themetaphors have changed a bit, the function words (italicized)—i.e., articles,prepositions, and conjunctions—have not changed through the centuries.184Function words establish the infrastructure of a sentence inside of which themain content words

      for - language - function and content words

    12. Rosen emphasizes that, if Being surpasses the split between sub-ject and object (as brought out by phenomenology), we cannot meaningfullyexpress Being through a form of writing that implicitly enforces this split.

      for - language - intrinsically dualistic - adjacency - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - language's dualistic nature - adjacency - Rosen - language dualism

      comment - Rosen points out the dualistic nature of language - Like individual living organisms, each word, like each individual organism, splits reality into an inner and an outer - Deep Humanity terminology of the individual / collective gestalt suggests that even though an individual is visibly separate from others, it is nonetheless connected to others invisibly in numerous ways - The visible individual is always only a part of the greater individual / collective gestalt - The individual / collective gestalt terminology applies equally to words as it does to living individuals

    13. perceived by oneself “in here.” In this sense, the world consists of objects outthere in space (the container that holds them) before me as the perceivingsubject.

      for - adjacency - Indyweb dev - natural language - timebinding - parallel vs serial processing - comparison - spoken vs written language - what's also interesting is that spoken language is timebinding, sequential and our written language descended from that, - in spite of written language existing in 2D and 3D space, it inherited sequential flow, even though it does not have to - In this sense, legacy spoken language system constrains written language to be - serial - sequential and - timebound instead of - parallel - Read any written text and you will observe that the pattern is sequential - We constrain our syntax it to "flow" sequentially in 2D space, even though there is absolutely no other reason to constrain it to do so - This also reveals another implicit rule about language, that it assumes we can only focus our attention on one aspect of reality at a time

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    1. To “switch worldviews” then is not like changing glasses. Or running the privileged finger down the golden fonts of a fine restaurant's menu. It is more like entering another ecology entirely. Or being entered. And such an entry can only ever happen with cracks, displacements, hauntings.

      for - adjacency - apolief - Bayo - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - J. Marvin Brown - David Long - This statement is aligned with the Automatic Language Growth school of language learning developed by linguist J. Marvin Brown and continued by David Long - ALG takes the view that language is a happening, an experience and the best way to learn is to engage in the experience the way that an infant of native language does, with no prior experience or knowledge - to - J Marvin Brown - Automatic Language Growth - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

    1. science tells us that kids learn better from one from zero from the birth to five years old they're the fastest they're the best at learning model them then just do what they do you can't get better than that

      for - stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning

      comment - ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have

    2. show me any other program that that tries to teach you language for a one to two-year-old that's what we're doing it doesn't compare to teaching a language to a five-year-old we're not there yet

      for - natural language acquisition - age - 2 year old is right age to aim to learn at

      comment - 2 year old age is when an infant learns to hear and speak a spoken language first - reading and writing does not happen until about 5 years of age - When we are learning a new second language, it is therefore appropriate to aim for the same goal as a native 2 year old language user

    3. that was the biggest challenge i think we had and still have within uh alg is teachers think they've got to explain the language and they're short cutting the process they're short circuiting the process and they're cheating the student out of a otherwise good experience

      for - adjacency - Socratic method - ALG - natural language acquisition - explanation - infants learning native language

      adjacency - between - Socratic method - natural language acquisition - ALG - explanation - adjacency relationship - When the teacher explains the meaning to the student, - it actually robs the student of the active learning experience of guessing the right meaning - Infants learning their native language for the first time are necessarily in the "deep end" and face discomfort - They (we) are constantly forced to guess and actually actively construct meaning out of the universe of symbols we are being exposed to in a multitude of contexts

    4. reading and writing naturally come after speaking only because speaking follows closely on the heels of understanding yeah so what do you focus on build your understanding

      for - language training - answer - to - question - about listening and speaking first

      comments - In human evolution, speaking and listening came long before reading and writing. - Our written language is based on sequential phonetic sounds of our spoken language, so it naturally makes sense to learn the spoken language first

    5. for - natural language acquisition - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - youtube - interview - David Long - Automatic Language Growth - from - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - https://hyp.is/Ls_IbCpbEfCEqEfjBlJ8hw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

      summary - The key takeaway is that even as adults, we have retained our innate language learning skill which requires simply treating a new language as a new, novel experience that we can apprehend naturally simply by experiencing it like the way we did when we were exposed to our first, native language - We didn't know what a "language" was theoretically when we were infants, but we simply fell into the experience and played with the experiences and our primary caretakers guided us - We didn't know grammar and rules of language, we just learned innately

    6. you can short-circuit that by diminishing the experience focusing on a language focusing on a word focusing on a sound or a meaning you miss the experience and you catch a word right and that's that's the whole that's like all of it in a nutshell

      for - common mistake - learning a word is NOT learning a language

      comment - The mistake that most second language approaches take is that it teaches meaning of words but NOT the EXPERIENCE of language

    7. if you were to distill down to its most basic component what is what is language it's not a phoneme it's not a word or phrase it's not even a meaning of some sound right in its basic component it's a it's a happening it's an aspect or a part of an experience all right this is this is sort of like the key to everything we're doing in alg

      for - quote - language is fundamentally an experience

      quote - language is fundamentally an experience - David Long - if you were to distill down to its most basic component, what is language? - It's not a phoneme - It's not a word or phrase - it's not even a meaning of some sound - In its basic component, it's a happening it's an aspect or a part of an experience - This is the key to everything we're doing in alg (Automatic Language Growth)

    8. as adults we have what we grew up with as young kids the the innate or the natural ability to acquire a language but most of us we've also learned and gained another quite natural ability and that is to learn things on purpose right so and so those two natures do conflict i don't think they fit well together

      for - key insight / quote - innate language learning is in conflict with intentional learning - David Long - Common Human Denominator - learning language

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    1. for - natural language acquisition - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - to - book - From the Outside In - linguist - J. Marvin Brown - https://hyp.is/PjtjBipbEfCr4ieLB5y1Ew/files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED501257.pdf - quote - When I speak in Thai, I think in Thai - J. Marvin Brown

      summary - This video summarizes the remarkable life of linguist J. Marvin Brown, who spent a lifetime trying to understand how to learn a second language and to use it the way a natural language user does - After a lifetime of research and trying out various teaching and learning methods, he finally realized that adults all have the abilitty to learn a new language in the same way any infant does, naturally through listening and watching - The key was to not bring in conscious thinking of an adult and immerse oneself in - This seems like a highly relevant clue to language creation and to linguistic BEing journeys - to - youtube - Interview with David Long - Automatic Language Growth - https://hyp.is/GRPUHipvEfCVEaMaLSU-BA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhIM2Vt-Cc

  9. Apr 2025
    1. Assumptions: Implicit and ExplicitIn our inquiry into language, this is a fundamental paradox we need toacknowledge: it is impossible to write about the implicit assumptions of ourlanguage system without simultaneously invoking those very assumptions.

      for - adjacency / insight - language - circularity of - paradox

      adjacency / insight - between - language - circularity - adjacency relationship - I've always strongly felt this inherent paradox of investigating language, that - by invoking language to investigate language, we are already trapped in a circular argument

  10. Mar 2025
    1. AI adoption is rapidly increasing in all industries for several use cases. In terms of natural language technologies, the question generally is – is it better to use NLP approaches or invest in LLM technologies? LLM vs NLP is an important discussion to identify which technology is most ideal for your specific project requirements.

      Explore the key differences between NLP and LLM in this comprehensive comparison. Learn how these technologies shape AI-driven applications, their core functionalities, and their impact on industries like chatbots, sentiment analysis, and content generation.

  11. Feb 2025
    1. Some might wonder why I recommend Lingua Latina instead of Fr. William Most’s Latin by the Natural Method series. Though Fr. Most was a friend of Catholic Culture and a brilliant theologian, after having used both books my opinion is that Most’s Latin style is significantly inferior to and less enjoyable than Ørberg’s. For example, Ørberg early on begins to acclimatize the student to the more flexible word order that makes Latin so different from English, exposure to which is essential for true reading fluency. Most’s Latin is, especially at the beginning, clunky and tedious in order to be didactic; the brilliance of Ørberg is that he manages to be didactic for the beginner while also being fluid and clever in his writing. Yet despite his greater didacticism, Fr. Most relies on English explanations of the Latin grammar, whereas Ørberg accomplishes his task entirely in Latin. Ørberg also has illustrations to teach the meaning of words without translation. Fr. Most does not include macrons to indicate vowel length, which is essential to learn correct pronunciation. He does include stress marks, which Ørberg does not, but the rules of stress are more easily learnt without stress marks than syllable length without macrons.

      Thomas V. Mirus' comparison of Fr. William Most's Latin text with Hans Ørberg's.

  12. Jan 2025
    1. the death example actually points to something more primordial! It points to the fact that I can never make a focal object of my framing, my capacity for Relevance Realization. I mean, Perspectively. What I mean by that is whenever I am thinking or doing anything, [-] it's always framed because if I'm unframed, I'm facing combinatorial explosion, which is not intelligible to me.

      for - key insight / adjacency - relevance realization - I can never make a focal object of my framing, my capacity for relevance realization - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke - adjacency - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize - - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize - adjacency relationship - As soon as we give attention to one aspect of our gestalt reality, we aspectualize, we frame - All of the below involve framing / aspectualizing - thinking - language use - design

    1. what science does is undermining or kind of challenging everything we believe to be right or all of our preconceptions about the world are challenged and sometimes completely reversed or revolutionised.

      for - adjacency - Deep Humanity - physiosphere - symbolosphere - language - science - preconceptions - hyperobjects - scientific model - prediction - YouTube - Beyond the perceptual envelope - Royal Institution - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - And, not or - example adjacency - between - preconceptions - concepts - scientific model - prediction - Deep Humanity - symbolosphere - physiosphere - language - science - adjacency relationship - Paradoxically, science overlays phenomenological reality with a constructed, symbolic layer - From a Deep Humanity perspective, the physiosphere is overlaid with the symbolosphere - The science narrative of - the deposition of animal remains over hundreds of millions of years make up - the cliffs we experience phenomenologically today - assumes the existence of hyperobjects we have no capacity to directly sense - Science is a process that - pays attention to our phenomenological reality - construct a story using specific concepts to explain the observed general class of phenomena in a consistent and repeatable - and most importantly, can predict new observable phenomena using the symbolic model Hence, science is a predictive activity which - begins in phenomenological reality, - the physiosphere - maps to symbols reality in a scientific model - the symbolosphere - makes new symbolic, predictions about phenomenological reality - and finally makes observations ink our phenomenological reality of the symbolically predicted phenomena to validate or refute - This process alternates between the two parallel worlds we seamlessly inhabit, - the physiosphere and - the symbolosphere - and this explains why achieve is - not either constructed OR discovered, but - is both constructed AND discovered

  13. Dec 2024
    1. We often discover that ANDs can easily take the place of BUTs.

      for - language awareness - And-Or-But - article - Medium - Happy andings! - In praise of "and" - Donna Nelham - 2022, May 2022

      // - comment - AND - expanding possibilities - OR - limiting possibilities - BUT - pointing out the shadow side / unintended consequences of an intention

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    1. for - TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan - potential source - Deep Humanity - BEing journeys in language - appreciation of inhabiting the symbolosphere // - Summary - An interesting idea of teasing out the data structure behind language - This could be a rich area to explore for Deep Humanity language BEing journeys to help people gain deeper appreciation of their own amazing language abilities - as well as gain an appreciation for the enormous amount of time our life is spent in the (relative) symbolosphere

    2. supposing I was a writer, say, for a newspaper or for a magazine. I could create content in one language, FreeSpeech, and the person who's consuming that content, the person who's reading that particular information could choose any engine, and they could read it in their own mother tongue, in their native language

      for - freespeech can be used as an international language translator - data structure of thought - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    3. when you want to use Google, you go into Google search, and you type in English, and it matches the English with the English. What if we could do this in FreeSpeech instead? I have a suspicion that if we did this, we'd find that algorithms like searching, like retrieval, all of these things, are much simpler and also more effective, because they don't process the data structure of speech. Instead they're processing the data structure of thought

      for - indyweb dev - question - alternative to AI Large Language Models? - Is indyweb functionality the same as Freespeech functionality? - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan - data structure of thought - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    4. language is really the brain's invention to convert this rich, multi-dimensional thought on one hand into speech on the other hand.

      for - key insight - ideas are multidimensional - speech is one dimensional - language is one dimensional - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    5. the dream, the hope, the vision, really, is that when they learn English this way, they learn it with the same proficiency as their mother tongue.

      for - investigate - question - Does this other app that allows learning another language with the proficiency of a child exist? - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    6. there were a group of scientists that were trying to understand how the brain processes language, and they found something very interesting. They found that when you learn a language as a child, as a two-year-old, you learn it with a certain part of your brain, and when you learn a language as an adult -- for example, if I wanted to learn Japanese

      for - research study - language - children learning mother tongue use a different post off the brain then adults learning another language - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    7. if I wasn't an English speaker, if I was speaking in some other language, this map would actually hold true in any language. So long as the questions are standardized, the map is actually independent of language. So I call this FreeSpeech

      for - app - Free Speech - permutations of pictures that can created meaning without using language - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    8. grammar is incredibly powerful, because grammar is this one component of language which takes this finite vocabulary that all of us have and allows us to convey an infinite amount of information, an infinite amount of ideas. It's the way in which you can put things together in order to convey anything you want to

      for - the power of grammar - infinite permutations if meaning using a finite set of symbols - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

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    1. once I began to see in 3D, I realized how wrong I had been. My theoretical knowledge of stereopsis did not prepare me in the least for the experience of seeing in stereo. Dr. Sacks must have suspected that stereopsis would provide me with an astonishing new way of seeing, one that I could not even have imagined

      for - cliche - the finger pointing to the moon - the finger is not the moon - language is NOT the experience it describes - from Psychology Today website - article - What Oliver Sacks Taught Me - Susan R. Barry - 2024 - Jan. 23

    1. shi-ne

      for - definition - Shi-ne - Shamatha without object - open awareness - the Tibetan meditation practice of becoming aware of our habitual tendency to reify and essentialize phenomena, experiencing them as having independent, non-relational reality of their own, both for - inner phenomena (thoughts and emotions) - outer phenomena (sensations) - It also goes by two other names - Shamatha without object - open awareess - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7 - adjacency - Tibetan shi-ne meditation - insight into our habit of reifying reality into objects - object permanence in child psychology - feral children and role of language enculturation in our constructed reality - Deep Humanity BEing journeys to give insight into deeper layer of phenomenological experience

      adjacency - between - Tibetan shi-ne meditation - insight into our habit of reifying reality into objects - object permanence in child psychology - Dr. Oliver Sacks medical case histories - feral children and absence of enculturation on human experience of reality - potential Deep Humanity BEing journeys to penetrate early deep conceptual layer - new relationship - question - Is shi-ne, in one sense attempting to get us to penetrate our deep conditioning of object permanence in our early child development years? - Before we mastered object permanence, we essentially experienced really as an undivided whole, a gestalt - To understand how non-trivial construction of object permanence is, we can read the late Dr. Oliver Sacks writing on his medical case studies of patients whose medical conditions caused them to experience reality in the danger way ordinary people do - The study of feral children also provides important insights into linguistic conditioning's role in our construction of reality - This area can inspire many important Deep Humanity BEing journeys relating - our habitual propensity to reify - object permanence - Shi-ne meditation and to offer us a way to penetrate our early deep conditioning of object permanence - Doing so allows us to get in touch with a pure, unconditioned, more primordial experience of reality free from layers of deep conceptualisation

    1. we think of kindness and compassion in a way that's very similar to the way scci other scientists think about language

      for - comparison / key insight - compassion is like language (and also like genetics) - every infant has the biological capacity for these - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson

      comparison / key insight - compassion is like language (and also like genetics) - compassion, like language and genetics is intrinsic to our human nature. Every newborn comes into the world with the biological capacity for kindness/compassion, language and for genetic expression. However, - how we actually turn out as adults depends on what variables exist in our environment - If we have a compassionate mOTHER, our Most significant OTHER, she will teach us compassion - just like a child raised in a community of other language speakers in the environment will enable the child to cultivate the language capacity and - without a community of language speakers, a feral infant will grow up not understanding language at all - a healthy environment triggers beneficial epigenetic processes - Again, the chinese saying is salient: (hu)man on earth, good at birth. The same nature, varies on nurture

      to - feral children - Youtube - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FTKaS1RdAfrg%2F&group=world - Chinese saying: (hu)man on earth, good at birth. The same nature, varies on nurture - https://hyp.is/TWOEYrlUEe-Mxx_LHYIpMg/medium.com/postgrowth/rediscovering-harmony-how-chinese-philosophy-offers-pathways-to-a-regenerative-future-07a097b237a0

    1. The Greeks took that material change and they mythologized it into the soul. And then, of course, Genesis—the creation of the world in Christianity—says, the world is here for humans. It was created for humans to use, to dominate, to exploit, you know, in their trial here to see if they’re righteous or not.

      for - key insight - roots of anthropomorphism - Greek and Christian narratives - from - Emergence Magazine - interview - An Ethics of Wild Mind - David Hinton - adjacency - existential polycrisis - roots of anthropomorphism in the written language - Deep Humanity BEing journeys that explore how language constructs our reality

      key insight / summary - roots of anthropomorphism - Greek and Christian narratives - The Greeks defined the soul - The Genesis story established that we were the chosen species and all others are subservient to us - From that story, domination of nature becomes the social norm, leading all the way to the existential polycrisis / metacrisis we are now facing - This underscores the critical salience of Deep Humanity to the existential polycrisis - exploring the roots of language and how it changes our perceptions of reality - showing us how we construct our narratives at the most fundamental level, then buy into them

    1. the first one is the paradox of pronouncement. And here we recognize that language is both incredibly useful for us and is evocative and helps us create and and see and be in this reciprocal exchange. And we also are trying to open to a non dual embodied cognition that is beyond the written word and beyond the hegemony of the written word, and indeed the hegemony of the English written word

      for - paradoxes - first one - pronouncement - the written word - evocative - but also hegemonic - especially the English language - there are other oral traditions - try to open nondual embodied cognition using English - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladna - Lynn Murphy - 2023

    1. Tim Ferris posting a text by Gabriel Wyner from 2014 on learning a new language in several steps 1) hear the novel sounds in the language and how to spell them 2) learn a list of basic words by connecting them to their image not their translatiojn 3) learn (simplified) grammar 4) continue the game (adding focused vocab, reading, listening speaking etc)

    2. My book, Fluent Forever: How to learn any language fast and never forget it, is an in-depth journey into the language learning process, full of tips, guidelines and research into the most efficient methods for learning and retaining foreign languages.

      [[Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner]] 2014. vgl [[7 talen in 7 dagen door Gaston Dorren]] which starts more with grammar and reading comprehension actually.

    3. Fluency in speech is not the ability to know every word and grammatical formation in a language; it’s the ability to use whatever words and grammar you know to say whatever’s on your mind. When you go to a pharmacy and ask for “That thing you swallow to make your head not have so much pain,” or “The medicine that makes my nose stop dripping water” – THAT is fluency. As soon as you can deftly dance around the words you don’t know, you are effectively fluent in your target language. This turns out to be a learned skill, and you practice it in only one situation: When you try to say something, you don’t know the words to say it, and you force yourself to say it in your target language anyways. If you want to build fluency as efficiently as possible, put yourself in situations that are challenging, situations in which you don’t know the words you need. And every time that happens, stay in your target language no matter what.

      speaking fluency comes from staying in the target language.

    4. Reading:  Books boost your vocabulary whether or not you stop every 10 seconds to look up a word. So instead of torturously plodding through some famous piece of literature with a dictionary, do this: Find a book in a genre that you actually like (The Harry Potter translations are reliably great!) Find and read a chapter-by-chapter summary of it in your target language (you’ll often find them on Wikipedia). This is where you can look up and make flashcards for some key words, if you’d like. Find an audiobook for your book. Listen to that audiobook while reading along, and don’t stop, even when you don’t understand everything. The audiobook will help push you through, you’ll have read an entire book, and you’ll find that it was downright pleasurable by the end.

      Reading to deepen understanding suggests any book and go through, find online chapter summaries in target langauge, listen to audiobook while reading it, as it forces you along.

    5. Vocabulary Customization:  Learning the top 1000 words in your target language is a slam-dunk in terms of efficiency, but what about the next thousand words? And the thousand after that? When do frequency lists stop paying dividends? Generally, I’d suggest stopping somewhere between word #1000 and word #2000. At that point, you’ll get better gains by customizing. What do you want your language to do? If you want to order food at a restaurant, learn food vocabulary. If you plan to go to a foreign university, learn academic vocabulary

      Adding to vocabulary has diminishing returns if you go by freq of usage after 1k-2k words. Use thematic lists for your purposes. E.g. [[% Interessevelden 20200523102304]] as starting point. Then go back to the flashcards w images used before. I can see building sets like these.

    6. On its surface, Google Images is a humble image search engine. But hiding beneath that surface is a language-learning goldmine: billions of illustrated example sentences, which are both searchable and machine translatable

      Suggest that google image headlines are a good source of additional example sentences for grammar learning, as it includes machine translation in the search results on mouse over. Grabs those sentences for flash cards. I think the time used to make the cards may well be the key intervention.