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posted by ant 9 years 1 week ago • 898 views • 2:25Videos (90) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Some languages have longer words than others -- but that's not just a simple choice. There's a lot of different ways to mix up morphemes, even if they all mean the same thing in the end.
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 2 weeks ago • 599 views • 4:37"For SIGBOVIK 2015 I did this little hack to produce a portmanteau (that's a jammin' together of two words, like caviar + armpit = caviarmpit) of all 100,000+ words in English. This video is a little illustrated... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 141 views • 8:56The word for 'yes' in most of Sweden is 'ja', but in the north of the country a unique sound is used instead, as The Local's Oliver Gee discovered in the city of Umeå.
posted by rasch187 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,152 views • 1:53YT: "Soooo, its raining outside and finally had a day off!! Wanted to talk about something that close to my heart. Learn some wack stuff about my native language, Finnish!"
posted by mintbbb 9 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 202 views • 4:37Patrick, a deaf boy in Sub Saharan Africa, has never had a conversation with anyone. He is not alone. There's little chance to learn sign language there, leaving many deaf people isolated and incommunicative.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 546 views • 4:25YouTube Description: Manche Sprachen klingen meinetwegen wie Musik oder verdammt romantisch. Aber ich finde die deutsche Sprache hat hingegen Wiedererkennungswert!Produktion: First Entertainment GmbH... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 9 years 9 months ago • 923 views • 2:02"If only there were some other, safer drugs, available to treat chronic pain." Heathcare Triage News with Dr. Aaron Carroll.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 10 months ago • 192 views • 3:58Youtube description: Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech-recognition, automatic-translation,... continue reading
posted by alcom 1 decade 1 month ago • 130 views • 2:03Slate.com: Welcome back to "Ask a Homo," Outward's no-judgement answer service for all your questions on LGBTQ politics, culture, etiquette, language, and other queer conundrums. This week, Bryan Lowder... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 1 month 2 weeks ago • 252 views • 4:10YouTube Description: EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW! Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow Marchex Institute study: [See YouTube description] Canada's most vulgar city: [See YouTube description] ... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 7 months ago • 501 views • 10:46No real surprise what's #1.
posted by brycewi19 1 decade 7 months ago • 161 views • 10:00As an ESL teacher I find this kind of stuff fascinating! Description (from You Tube): eBay Deals investigates Yale University economist Keith Chen's study on "The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior."... continue reading
posted by azukipie 1 decade 8 months 3 weeks ago • 762 views • 5:54Where do nicknames come from? Why are Ellens called Nellie and Edwards Ned? It's all a big misunderstanding from the early days of the English language, a misunderstanding that even the word nickname itself... continue reading
posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 9 months ago • 51 views • 4:57What do Game of Thrones’ Dothraki, Avatar’s Na’vi, Star Trek’s Klingon and LOTR’s Elvish have in common? They are all fantasy constructed languages, or conlangs. Conlangs have all the delicious... continue reading
posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 9 months ago • 214 views • 5:21Why pay for Rosetta Stone to learn a language when this is free?
posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 9 months 1 week ago • 151 views • 1:02(youtube) This video shows some of the common body postures and facial expressions in cats, some of which can be easily misinterpreted by people as cats are so subtle in their behaviour.
posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 10 months 4 weeks ago • 1,661 views • 3:05Such a gentle language!
posted by brycewi19 1 decade 11 months 1 week ago • 2,928 views • 1:05