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Januari
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bareboards2Thanks, ole sift buddette.
And thanks for the editorial comment. Big Time indeed.
BIG TIME
*promote
oritteropo
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bareboards2That 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
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bareboards26 days out of 7 in November.
oritteropo
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bareboards2Hard 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
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bareboards2And look how close you are to Galaxy! Keep going, dude! I want to hear your song!
oritteropo
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bareboards2Ah. 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)
bareboards2ME 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
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bareboards2Thanks for the promote! Isn't that the most amazing thing?
*happy, *promote, love it, love it, love it!!
oritteropo
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bareboards2I knew you would love this! Thanks for the love back at it.
I LOVE THAT YOU LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!
*doublepromote *quality
Payback
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bareboards2I actually laughed out loud.
Thanks for making my morning!
"Developmentally delayed"
Januari
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bareboards2Thanks, my lovely fellow sifter!
*promote
Payback
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bareboards2Well! 44 minutes from promotion to sifting.
Thanks!
*promote me some missionary orange pekoe
Payback
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bareboards2Hey. Thanks! Be nice for this thing to sift.
*promote me some missionary orange pekoe
Nephelimdream
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bareboards2Thanks for the Pro Mote!
*promote
Mordhaus
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bareboards2Thanks for the detailed response. I'll tuck it away as data for my informal survey.
I discovered Kathleen Madigan a couple of years ago and loved her. I don't know why she isn't more well known. I get pretty bored by most stand up -- Louis CK being an exception. Thanks for the link -- I'm definitely going to watch it.
And thanks for taking me at face value. Really refreshing.
I can't speak to the feminist portion of your question. I am not a feminist; more of a humanist, really. I could assume that having a related ideology might make her jokes more palatable, but it would be only a base assumption.
I asked my wife to view this clip on youtube, without reading the comments on this link. She is not a feminist either, so I simply asked her as a woman, did she find this funny? She said that clip was "mildly amusing" but she did not believe me when I told her that Amy was one of the top female comedians right now. Bear in mind that we don't watch cable, only Netflix and Prime, so she has not had exposure to her comedy skits on Inside Amy Schumer.
I do think Tina Fey is funny for the most part. I love Iliza Shlesinger. Kathleen Madigan puts me in stitches. I would say that this clip https://youtu.be/4wzpYDnqhiI is hilarious and meets your aforementioned criteria. The thing is, I personally find that clip hilarious, and I can't really say that about most of Ms. Schumer's work.