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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We speak to them differently. This can be seen across multiple spaces- not just Siri or other service bots, but really with anything programmed that we wish to understand us, especially those that do not process language as we do. I would argue that such learning is not forgotten when we write to one another, when we return to fully human conversations. Rather, we are meeting in a stylistic middle- a contemporary lexicon that contains within it all the kernels of of this adapted language with which we communicate with our machines.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We suggest a later timeline for full language capabilities in Homo sapiens, placing the emergence of language over 200,000 years after the emergence of our species. The late Paleolithic period saw several significant changes. Homo sapiens became more gracile and gradually lost significant brain volumes. Detailed realistic cave paintings disappeared completely, and iconic/symbolic ones appeared at other sites. This may indicate a shift in perceptual abilities, away from an accurate perception of the present. Language in modern humans interact with vision. One example is the McGurk effect. Studies show that artistic abilities may improve when language-related brain areas are damaged or temporarily knocked out. Language relies on many pre-existing non-linguistic functions. We suggest that an overwhelming flow of perceptual information, vision, in particular, was an obstacle to language, as is sometimes implied in autism with relative language impairment. We systematically review the recent research literature investigating the relationship between language and perception. We see homologues of language-relevant brain functions predating language. Recent findings show brain lateralization for communicative gestures in other primates without language, supporting the idea that a language-ready brain may be overwhelmed by raw perception, thus blocking overt language from evolving. We find support in converging evidence for a change in neural organization away from raw perception, thus pushing the emergence of language closer in time. A recent origin of language makes it possible to investigate the genetic origins of language. ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Written language is an evolutionarily recent human invention; consequently, its neural substrates cannot be determined by the genetic code. How, then, does the brain incorporate skills of this type? One possibility is that written language is dependent on evolutionarily older skills, such as spoken language; another is that dedicated substrates develop with expertise. If written language does depend on spoken language, then acquired deficits of spoken and written language should necessarily co-occur. Alternatively, if at least some substrates are dedicated to written language, such deficits may doubly dissociate. We report on 5 individuals with aphasia, documenting a double dissociation in which the production of affixes (e.g., the -ing in jumping) is disrupted in writing but not speaking or vice versa. The findings reveal that written- and spoken-language systems are considerably independent from the standpoint of morpho-orthographic operations. Understanding this independence of the orthographic system in adults has implications for the education and rehabilitation of people with written-language deficits.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["elephant’s adenoids, cat’s miaow, ant’s pants, tiger’s spots, bullfrog’s beard, elephant’s instep, caterpillar’s kimono, turtle’s neck, duck’s quack, duck’s nuts, monkey’s eyebrows, gnat’s elbows, oyster’s earrings, snake’s hips, kipper’s knickers, elephant’s manicure, clam’s garter, eel’s ankle, leopard’s stripes, tadpole’s teddies, sardine’s whiskers, canary’s tusks, pig’s wings, cuckoo’s chin, and butterfly’s book."]]></description>
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    <title>Art Now: Sophia Al-Maria: Beast Type Song – Exhibition at Tate Britain | Tate</title>
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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the poem, Adnan uses drawing to communicate what cannot be expressed in words. Similarly, Al-Maria explores the revision of history through graphic and bodily gestures. When words cannot express trauma, a new language of drawings, movement and music gives voice to the speechless.

Drawing on personal heritage and fictional future projections, the protagonists reflect on the narratives and languages they have inherited as children of various colonial legacies. Each figure encounters some form of violence either through the hostile gaze of the camera or through the imposition of narrative. We are told stories of a violence inflicted on the body, but at the same time are asked to consider the violence of the storytelling itself.

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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of those areas is the “hand knob,” which, as the name suggests, is a knobby region of the gyrus involved in hand and arm movements. It also has another, surprising function. A team based at Stanford University reports today (December 10) in eLife that some neurons there are active during speech, and their signals can be decoded to reveal the word or sound uttered. The results lend new insight into brain organization, and could be useful in devising future brain-computer interfaces that would enable communication by people who cannot talk.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Stookey Blue.]]></description>
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    <title>Feminist cyborg scholar Donna Haraway: ‘The disorder of our era isn’t necessary’ | World news | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-23T07:31:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To this day I know only one or two scientists who like talking this way. And there are good reasons why scientists remain very wary of this kind of language. I belong to the Defend Science movement and in most public circumstances I will speak softly about my own ontological and epistemological commitments. I will use representational language. I will defend less-than-strong objectivity because I think we have to, situationally.

Is that bad faith? Not exactly. It’s related to [what the postcolonial theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has called] “strategic essentialism”. There is a strategic use to speaking the same idiom as the people that you are sharing the room with. You craft a good-enough idiom so you can work on something together. I go with what we can make happen in the room together. And then we go further tomorrow.

In the struggles around climate change, for example, you have to join with your allies to block the cynical, well-funded, exterminationist machine that is rampant on the Earth. I think my colleagues and I are doing that. We have not shut up, or given up on the apparatus that we developed. But one can foreground and background what is most salient depending on the historical conjuncture.]]></description>
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    <title>Understanding Embodied Simulation: Creating Meaning out of Language</title>
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    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Embodied simulation refers to the possibility that we understand the meaning of language by simulating in our minds the experience that the language describes through memories of our own experiences of that event. Bergen points at that we simulate constantly, when we imagine faces of friends or relatives, sounds, music, tastes, smells, and actions through conscious mental imagery. He explains that embodied simulation is a slightly deeper process and the images that we conjure up are ‘just the tip of the iceberg;’ when we simulate we create mental experiences of sense perceptions and actions without them being present. The processes that we consciously activate to do this are actually busy even when we are not aware of them.  When we practice ‘embodied simulation’ research shows we ‘prod’ those areas of the brain that deal with actions and perceptions that have unconsciously collected all our experiences and actions and reawaken them.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/11/a-homework-assignment-from-w-h-auden/">
    <title>A Homework Assignment from W. H. Auden</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-11T19:18:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/11/a-homework-assignment-from-w-h-auden/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“And here, dear reader, is where we bring this whole goat-rodeo clusterfuck to a close”
Poetry assignment set by W H Auden is hard.]]></description>
<dc:subject>language writing poetry inspiration</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:594f1d88e92a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@memoakten/ami-residency-part-1-exploring-word-space-andprojecting-meaning-onto-noise-98af7252f749#.co5g6fqq9">
    <title>AMI Residency Part 1 : Exploring (word) space, projecting meaning onto noise, learnt vs human bias. – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-24T11:19:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@memoakten/ami-residency-part-1-exploring-word-space-andprojecting-meaning-onto-noise-98af7252f749#.co5g6fqq9</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Higher level maths and mapping language probabilities]]></description>
<dc:subject>language ai machinelearning rnn art nlp mathematics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:5683d80ebba2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:ai"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114748-google-translate-ai-invents-its-own-language-to-translate-with/">
    <title>Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with | New Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-24T11:02:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114748-google-translate-ai-invents-its-own-language-to-translate-with/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Google’s researchers think their system achieves this breakthrough by finding a common ground whereby sentences with the same meaning are represented in similar ways regardless of language – which they say is an example of an “interlingua”. In a sense, that means it has created a new common language, albeit one that’s specific to the task of translation and not readable or usable for humans."]]></description>
<dc:subject>google language linguistics translation ai rnn machinelearning</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:401a79674777/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://wit.ai/">
    <title>Wit — landing</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-04T16:47:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://wit.ai/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Natural Language API for devs, including voice interface]]></description>
<dc:subject>api development language nlp voice tool</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:1221ce7127bf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:development"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:language"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:voice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:tool"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://cliche.theinfo.org/">
    <title>Cliche Finder</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-01T13:00:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cliche.theinfo.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Scans copy for cliches.]]></description>
<dc:subject>english language tools writing content nfts</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:8334a2bf59db/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:tools"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:content"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.textteaser.com/">
    <title>TextTeaser - Summarize articles instantly!</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-24T12:51:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.textteaser.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TextTeaser is an automatic summarization algorithm that combines the power of natural language processing and machine learning to produce good results.]]></description>
<dc:subject>api language text nlp</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:68d2bf3f2ea9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:text"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://un1verse.co/">
    <title>Universe</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-30T19:31:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://un1verse.co/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Interesting project - automation / programming for laypeople?]]></description>
<dc:subject>language startup programming code</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:3d52f0118c74/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:programming"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.generative-modeling.org/GenerativeModeling/1">
    <title>Generative Modeling</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-30T13:03:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.generative-modeling.org/GenerativeModeling/1</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gothic architecture is a prime example for the effectiveness of procedural shape design: In the Gothic style, all geometric constructions are exclusively executed using compass and ruler. Variations were obtained by procedurally combining in ever changing ways a set of simple basic parameterized geometric operations. Therefore it is practically impossible to find two tracery windows in different buildings that follow an identical geometric construction.]]></description>
<dc:subject>generative decode09 art processing language design</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:cab36c753532/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:language"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:design"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9083e598-90ee-11e2-a456-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OS5fy3py">
    <title>How social media improved writing - FT.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-27T23:55:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9083e598-90ee-11e2-a456-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OS5fy3py</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Via Dense]]></description>
<dc:subject>language socialsoftware writing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:e20a64eeae96/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:language"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:socialsoftware"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://beta.spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/polite-robot-overlords-will-be-more-persuasive">
    <title>Polite Robot Overlords Will Be More Persuasive - IEEE Spectrum</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-12T21:08:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://beta.spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/polite-robot-overlords-will-be-more-persuasive</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For instance, “likable people equivocate when they are giving help,” Kiesler says. That is, they say things such as “Maybe you can try X” rather than simply “Do X.” They also soften their advice with extraneous words such as “Well, so, you can try X.” So Torrey filmed a few of her own scenarios in which either robots or people shared advice with actors pretending to learn how to bake, using various combinations of the language the experts used. Then she asked a new group of volunteers to watch the videos and rate how likable, controlling, and competent the experts were. They found that equivocation, or hedging, made the experts appear more competent, less controlling, and more likable. The effect was even stronger for the robots, suggesting that people find robots less threatening than humans when the robots use humanlike language.]]></description>
<dc:subject>robots language captology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:2538d01328ed/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:robots"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_letters">
    <title>List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-03T23:11:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_letters</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And again. Awesome, but too many little squares.]]></description>
<dc:subject>letter font language typography script character</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:89246306f1af/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:letter"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:language"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:script"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:character"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Uncommon_Latin_letters">
    <title>Category:Uncommon Latin letters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-03T23:09:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Uncommon_Latin_letters</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Unicode support leaving something to be desired here.]]></description>
<dc:subject>font alphabet language typography letters linguistics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:bb7632abf45e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://ipeirotis.appspot.com/readability-api.html">
    <title>Readability Scores Demo</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-17T17:01:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ipeirotis.appspot.com/readability-api.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Huh, was just wondering about a reading complexity API earlier.]]></description>
<dc:subject>metrics reading language linguistics api</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:cbee88ef79d4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_words_not_widely_used_in_the_United_States">
    <title>List of British words not widely used in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-22T12:32:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_words_not_widely_used_in_the_United_States</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><dc:subject>language</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:bc514cf81781/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:language"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable">
    <title>Metasyntactic variable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-26T13:10:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
                
                    Hoge and pakeratta are commonly used, with other common words and variants being piyo, fuga, hogera, and hogehoge.
                
            ]]></description>
<dc:subject>programming language foo</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:b40442190889/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/writing/publications.html">
    <title>McNeill Lab Publications</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-25T09:54:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/writing/publications.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
                
                    Publications of McNeill Lab - Centre for Gesture and Speech Research
                
            ]]></description>
<dc:subject>language gesture embodiment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:e10eb28a16e0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/1999/2/the-gestural-origins-of-language/1">
    <title>The Gestural Origins of Language » American Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-25T09:52:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/1999/2/the-gestural-origins-of-language/1</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
                
                    Human language may have evolved from manual gestures, which survive today as a "behavioral fossil" coupled to speech
                
            ]]></description>
<dc:subject>gesture language embodiment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:33b69c4d8869/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.serpentfd.org/a/hewes1973a.html">
    <title>G.W. Hewes: Gestural Language Excerpts</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-25T09:51:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.serpentfd.org/a/hewes1973a.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
                
                    “The notion that man’s first language was primarily gestural, carried on with hand and arm signals rather than vocal sounds, has been supported by a distinguished line of scholars: Condillar (1746), Tylor (1868, 1871), Morgan (1877:35n), Wallace (1881, 1895), Romanes (1988), Wundt (1912), Paget (1944, 1963), and Johannesson (1949, 1950). The gestural theory seems to be the most attractive of the many glottogonic hypotheses advanced so far, and receives support from recent studies of chimpanzees and other primates, such as Gardner and Gardner (1969, 1971), Premack (1970a,b, 1971), and Menzel (1971), as well as from other sources. The fact that this evidence was unavailable to earlier proponents of the gestural theory explains some of the weaknesses in its former formulations.” (Hewes GW (1973) Primate communication and the gestural origins of language. Current Anthropology 14: 5)
                
            ]]></description>
<dc:subject>gesture language embodiment evolution</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:f00ea95aca45/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm">
    <title>Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-23T13:48:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
                
                    私のホバークラフトは鰻でいっぱいです
(Watashi no hobākurafuto wa unagi de ippai desu.)
                
            ]]></description>
<dc:subject>language hovercraft eels translation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:629057fa8967/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:hovercraft"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/">
    <title>[bnc] British National Corpus</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-20T21:27:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written. [more]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jul/20/verbal-restraint-a-l-kennedy">
    <title>The language of verbal restraint | AL Kennedy | Books | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-14T20:49:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jul/20/verbal-restraint-a-l-kennedy</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne refuting the common errors and superstitions of his age. It first appeared in 1646 and went through five subsequent editions, the last revision occurring in 1672. The work includes evidence of Browne's adherence to the Baconian method of empirical observation of nature, and was in the vanguard of work-in-progress scientific journalism in the 17th century scientific revolution, though he refers to his work as an encyclopaedia. Throughout its pages frequent examples of Browne's subtle humour can also be found.]]></description>
<dc:subject>swearing alkennedy language</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter">
    <title>Racter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-26T15:29:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><dc:subject>language literature ai computer history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://translate.google.com/toolkit/list?hl=en#translations/active">
    <title>Google Translator Toolkit</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-24T13:30:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://translate.google.com/toolkit/list?hl=en#translations/active</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Woh, whole new bits of google I didn't know about
]]></description>
<dc:subject>google translation tools language tool</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2010/02/01/why-russians-see-a-different-kind-of-blue/">
    <title>Why Russians see a different Kind of Blue — Times Labs Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-10T12:13:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2010/02/01/why-russians-see-a-different-kind-of-blue/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><dc:subject>color visualization culture language</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:culture"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan">
    <title>Verlan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-03T21:43:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[French argot/backslang
]]></description>
<dc:subject>language slang french</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:42c9e5cda3fc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/opinion/03schott.html">
    <title>Op-Ed Guest Columnist - Twittergraphy - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-12T17:11:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/opinion/03schott.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[a boom in telegraphic code books that reduced both common and complex phrases into single words. Dozens of different codes were published; many catered to specific occupations and all promised efficiency.]]></description>
<dc:subject>history code telegraphy twitter language</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/t:twitter"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogamundo.net/lab/wordlengths/">
    <title>Languages by Average word length</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-11T14:15:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogamundo.net/lab/wordlengths/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Languages by Average word length]]></description>
<dc:subject>language word statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:54c906c36cce/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://morsecode.scphillips.com/alphabet.html">
    <title>Phonetic Alphabets</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-13T11:18:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://morsecode.scphillips.com/alphabet.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am reading this and listening to numbers stations. My brane hurts.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>millitary radio alphabet language reference</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://asianposes.com/category/pose/">
    <title>Pose | Asian Poses</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-20T11:40:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://asianposes.com/category/pose/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am interested in the way that Anime conventions for showing the inner state of a character (which are probably derived from woodcut?) have moved over in to games, and also photography - wonder if an icon writing system helps that movement?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture photography visual language</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:788c46bd37e9/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/ny-times-mines-its-data-to-identify-words-that-readers-find-abstruse/">
    <title>N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-18T11:10:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/ny-times-mines-its-data-to-identify-words-that-readers-find-abstruse/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bookmarked mostly for a lovely list of words. Turns out Apotheosis doesn't quite mean what I thought it did.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>language journalism writing datamining</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:f38eb9eae851/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#T">
    <title>List of professional wrestling terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-10T13:42:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#T</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><dc:subject>language entertainment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:7119c2aba9ea/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript/">
    <title>Artificial Intelligence Cracks 4,000-Year-Old Mystery | Wired Science | Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-02T19:54:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript/</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The program calculated the level of order present in each language.]]></description>
<dc:subject>language linguistics AI</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mildlydiverting/b:9503966f60b8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://kk.org/ct2/2008/08/where-quotes-come-from.php">
    <title>Conceptual Trends and Current Topics</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-12T14:12:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kk.org/ct2/2008/08/where-quotes-come-from.php</link>
    <dc:creator>mildlydiverting</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I now realize that every adage should have an encyclopedia page explaining its actual genesis, history of antecedents, counter claims and context. Like any portriat, the story behind the quote is usually more interesting than the quote.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>wikipedia quotes attribution language</dc:subject>
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