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oritteropo (Member Profile)
http://videosift.com/video/Hip-Hop-West-Coast-Swing
These guys!
newtboy (Member Profile)
Hey. We are both pains in the asses. It's all good!
And I have been told many times that I also see things from a different slant.
It really is all good.
It's even worse when one is the type of person who thinks the best compliment they ever got was 'Newtboy doesn't think the way normal people do.' That's certainly not helpful when attempting internet communication, and maddening for all when people invariably expect you to read into their posts and understand some unwritten or miss-written parts...something I am completely incapable of doing properly.
Thanks for not bailing just because I'm a sesquipedalian pain in the ass.
Januari (Member Profile)
Thanks, ole sift buddette.
And thanks for the editorial comment. Big Time indeed.
BIG TIME
*promote
oritteropo (Member Profile)
That was fascinating.
I've been sitting here saying pay and bay and listening to the difference. Wow. Never even knew.
Silent on losing nouns first, memory-wise, that article. I really really REALLY want to know if that is cross-language. I'd bet a whole dollar it is. And I usually only bet a nickel.
I just saw this article linked from digg, and after we were talking about it a few weeks ago thought you might be interested - http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/11/tonal-languages-linguistics-mandarin/415701/
BoneRemake (Member Profile)
6 days out of 7 in November.
oritteropo (Member Profile)
Hard for me to wrap my mind around this kind of language. How does something like this evolve? Are they more musical than Western languages? Fascinating.
(And yeah, do they lose nouns and not verbs? There is a question to be researched!)
Yes, like Chinese (all Chinese dialects are tonal). It's a language where pitch affects the meaning of the word. Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia has an entry on it here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_%28linguistics%29
In Cantonese for instance, both a fork and a cup of tea are "cha" but with different tones (tea is tone 4 low falling and fork is tone 1 high falling, I think, and lets just not mention the other cha which is fried). The list (for Cantonese) is:
1 - High Falling
2 - Middle Rising
3 - Middle Level
4 - Low Falling
5 - Low Rising
6 - Low Level
http://learningcantonese.blogspot.com.au/2005/12/six-tones.html
oritteropo (Member Profile)
And look how close you are to Galaxy! Keep going, dude! I want to hear your song!
oritteropo (Member Profile)
Ah. I wondered. I saw a "news" report about a type of person called a "super recognizer." They have the ability to recognize celebrities from old photos (and probably have other recognizing abilities, too.)
I'm not a super recognizer, but I am a pretty dang good recognizer. I can't see anyone BUT Jack Black in that screen shot.
I'm losing the ability now. Not that I don't know who the people are -- I just can't remember names now!
Interesting factoid -- as you age, you lose the ability to recall nouns. Verbs don't go away. Fascinating. Says something about the evolution of language ot me....
No, I had to click through More obvious in retrospect.
Jinx (Member Profile)
ME TOO! ME TOO!!!!
And the dang thing was long. And still I bopped and wiggled and grinned.
This is hands down the most best thing I've seen in months, dance related or otherwise. My cheeks hurt from grinning.
Zawash (Member Profile)
Thanks for the promote! Isn't that the most amazing thing?
*happy, *promote, love it, love it, love it!!
oritteropo (Member Profile)
I knew you would love this! Thanks for the love back at it.
I LOVE THAT YOU LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!
*doublepromote *quality
Payback (Member Profile)
I actually laughed out loud.
Thanks for making my morning!
"Developmentally delayed"
Januari (Member Profile)
Thanks, my lovely fellow sifter!
*promote
Payback (Member Profile)
Well! 44 minutes from promotion to sifting.
Thanks!
*promote me some missionary orange pekoe
Payback (Member Profile)
Hey. Thanks! Be nice for this thing to sift.
*promote me some missionary orange pekoe