Sooo... first we have the fact that there are many commotions happening right around the same time, but without any discernable relationship.
Then we have these learnèd scientists who claim it all happened because Mars was in the house of Venus at the time, or something, but even this evidence was not sufficient to sway the Egyptologists.
However, all Egyptologists have turned out to be crazies.
hehehe, that's a very strange piece of literature you have found yourself! I hope you can confirm my understanding of it. Where did it come from? Are you taking a course on Egyptologists or Mediterranean History?
Part of the joy of going somewhere (for Americans) other than America is that everything is probably in a foreign language. And that people refer to these places, concepts, foods, etc., in the language that describes them best: their native one. I'm not going to go to la Rue d'Auguste Lançon in Paris and have my cute little pocket device translate it into "August Lancon Street". Parisiens giving me directions are going to call it la Rue d'Auguste Lançon!
Ok, so what about China or Japan? If you are going for travel, you can learn a few Kanji. It's the least you could do. If you're going on business, as the article suggests, you should be a good little representative and be chosen because you know something about where you're going. Hopefully you know a lot, or at least enough to be able to order food from a menu.
It's kind of sad that no people won't even have to make the smallest step into being somewhere new of calling places by their real names. If you lovingly name your kid George, would you be upset if the Mexicans only refered to him with the pronunciation "hor-hey"?
At least in America, I think many people are too lazy or uninterested to want to get down to the nitty gritty details of programming a printer or reconfiguring something "complicated". Think of that concerned-looking lady that lives down the street. Do you really think she wants to take her one hour of free time this Thursday poring over some thick manual on how to set up her file system? She'd much more likely be willing to pay a neighbor's son to fix whatever problem she's having.
Back home, people call ATMs Tyme Machines because that's the company that bought them all out. I get to college and ask where the nearest Tyme machine is in town, and I get some smack about this book, "we're not in London, sweetie," etc.
All languages are "just a matter of learning the vocabulary once the grammar [is] understood". French...well, I suppose you could say French is "easier" because you can basically translate word-for-word into English, with very few word-order flops or change in connotations for many of the latin-based English words. It's kind of nice to already have a grasp of 25% of the words!
German you can probably read simple things after about a month of study because it looks like old-school Enlgish slang, but the word order is pretty different. It's very intuitive, but different from English. (Except for old phrases like "with this ring do I thee wed" and such.) So you have to translate more like sentence for sentence.
Japanese is a different beast. These people lived on their islands for thousands of years with very little influence and developed some really different things. Totalyl different from Chinese grammar structure. It's very simple. If any part of a sentence has been used recently except the verb (which is without fail at the end), you don't repeat it. So you ahve to translate paragraph for paragraph. Plus the yhave just as many idioms and little tricks as English, so exposure is the key.
Sapir-Whorf Theorem? I hadn't heard of that! When I get back from class (Japanese) I'll have to look it up. Actually, just the other day I discovered that the word for "lonely" in Japanese (sabishii) can be used for more than just people. Like if you're eating dinner and you want butter but there isn't any out, you are "lonely" for butter. So I was thinking that I needed something, but more in the "sabishii" sense than any sense you can come up with in Enlgish. I'm sure I would have had the same thought, but if asked to explain it, by filtering it through Enlgish i would have lost some of my original meaning. It's cool that you mentioned that just now!
And YES I get stuck in different languages, I was in a German swing all this week, dreaming in it, etc., which was great for German class, but awful for teh other two. I would just keep dipping into my German pools for Japanese words instead of just thinking in Japanese. (I've studied French for about 7 years so I rarely have a problem with it.)
blah blah blah me me me. Do you study languages? Maybe you should email me: phillipm@carleton.edu
Gnetlemen, stop flattering me! You make me blush!...Except for that bit about the woodchopper...that's Fargo, not MN. My God, you would think you've never seen a female computer programmer before!
Now hand me a beer and let me get back to Zelda. Link needs my help or the Triforce will never be recovered!
Whew, that's sort of what I was hoping to hear! Thanks! I can understand the desire to code mix through vocabularies, but I still would withold from doing it for the same reasons as mucha s possible.
For more information on the mixing of vocabularies with lots of immigrat populations, you should read The Language Instinct my Pinker. I think chapter 3 or 4, somewhere in the beginning, deals with that exact phenomenon, and it's REALLY interesting! Kids are amazing with it, in short.
Sometimes I wonder if, need I at some point turn off my anti-code-mixing brain part (say I get really drunk or in a sticky situation abroad) if anyone else would be able to understand it. Japanese, German, French? Who else knows German and Japanese? [siiiiiiigh]
I thought the reason most people "like" pain (myself at one time perhaps included) was for the sort of strange sexual pleasure you [can] get out of it. While I love Legend of Zelda as much as the next gal, I find nothing erotic about video games, and I definitely don't think I would think better of the games this toy is better suited for.
Or perhaps does pain engender some other sort of emotion for other people?
As a student of three foreign languages (at once, right now, in college), I try to avoid "code mixing" as much as possible and view it as a weakness in my language acquisition.
According to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct (and I'm sure other sources), there are almost switches in our brains for head-first or head-last grammar, nomative languages, the concept of dative, different pools for vocabulary, etc. I think code mixing is sort of like double-dipping, where you get the blue paint in the red jar, and you have to make efforts to get your pure red again.
Can you perhaps describe a situation in which you would want to code mix? (Besides for rhetoric or for entertainment purposes at linguistic cocktail parties...) I would feel so guilty doing it on purpose!
Do people really think we're ok with getting spam? Sure, you can just delete it, but it feels like an invasion of privacy, like nothing is completely personal anymore, like someone is always knocking on your door. You don't have to answer it, but you'll always look out the window to see if it's someone you know, and you get sick of seeing another door-to-door salesman.
I was hoping someone would tell me something like this. How many hours a week does a 'typical' (if one could find one) computer employee work? I'm a bit naive, I just know I like to program!
Sometimes it's hard to decide what to do and not do with my time, and it seems like the few things I sign up for right away just eat up my time and so I decide not to take on any more activities or start any new projects until 'the schedule clears up'...at the end of the term! I'm really looking forward to reading the replies to this article once it settles down a bit...
Let's see, as a computer science major at a good college, i have classes and homework, sports, campus activities, signifcant other(s), friends, beer, crazy little stunts to keep life interesting, piano lessons, running, and a senior thesis to keep in mind. Going to college is much more involving than a 40-hour-a-week+commute job, where you live in an apartment or house, NOT surrounded by 200 other 18-22 year olds. You think about things from your classes and discuss them with people in other classes...not preparation for the real world, perhaps, but time consuming!
Now, if I wanted to start my own project, come up with some brilliant idea on my own and work on THAT too, I think i'd get even less sleep...
It's very interessting that there were no patents before this. I always assumed that everyone had patents like the US. I guess that's just ethnocentricity and plain naiveté on my part.
Does anyone know what sort of protections were in place for software developpers previously? If nothing, this will definitely cause some major upheaval in the business of software in Europe! More monopolies, more globalization of the American democracy-but-with-oligaries paradox.
Actually, when applying to most grad schools, your undergrad GPA is multiplied by a certain factor depending on both the difficulty of the college AND the amount of grade inflation. It turns out great Harvard grades don't count for that much to most graduate programs.
The point of this survey is most likely the amount of sleep you require not what you get when you use an alarm clock. There was a similar article posted by CNN.com about the same study. The amount of sleep you require is a sign of bodily efficiency.
I am a college student. I go to bed between 11:00 and 12:30 every night and wake up between 6:30 and 7:30 every morning without an alarm clock. In fact, I often wake up earlier and just sit in bed waiting for 7:00 or so to get up. The secret? I like to go running. The better shape you're in, the less sleep you require.
Plus, there's this awesome pride thing that comes from beating the Evil Alarm. I HATE that noise!!
Certain countries have tried peace, Switzerland for instance, Iceland, Eire others? You could also count countries that only use armed forces for defense of it's own borders.
The problem with the US trying peace is that it requires an intelligent, educated and compasionate population, the current population in America is none of the above.
Do you think the populations of other coutries are inherently different in their intelligence and compassion? (Education is a different issue.) Perhaps in tribes and certain cities the flavor of the people can be fundamentally different, but for the most part, people are people, and some will be bullies and some will be bullied, there will always be the one nice guy that everyone respects, and the crumb that gets what he deserves. In America, in Iceland, in Nazi Germany.
However, I'll grant you that there can be certain differences. So let's look at Japan, both pre-European influence and post. Certainly, the people of Japan are intelligent and educated. As for compassion, the entire culture is founded on the concept of family. The school teacher is very patriarchal, as is the company president, as is the Emperor. Everyone owns everything and therefore respects everything. Everyone is sort of a sibling of everyone else, so privacy as a concept didn't exist until Western influence introduced it. These people will work together without government prodding to fix things, to help each other out, to celebrate. They are extremely compassionate.
Japanese history is FULL of war. Granted, mostly civil war before Western influence, but they're an island nation. And post influence? War again! And they were willing to help us (as much as their newest treatsie would allow) with Afghanistan, with their warships.
I totally agree with you.
Little kids, who we can take as basically unadultered (no pun inteneded) by society, the media, etc., always come up with really violent and afwul games to play. Brothers will always give each other bloody faces, kids will always try to catch squirrels and catapult them across the fence, and people will always find war games to play with anything, even a sister's Barbie dolls. (Please forgive the sexist overtones.) Just because there's now a game that does these things doesn't mean the creaters are giving kids fresh ideas.
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Then we have these learnèd scientists who claim it all happened because Mars was in the house of Venus at the time, or something, but even this evidence was not sufficient to sway the Egyptologists.
However, all Egyptologists have turned out to be crazies.
hehehe, that's a very strange piece of literature you have found yourself! I hope you can confirm my understanding of it. Where did it come from? Are you taking a course on Egyptologists or Mediterranean History?
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Ok, so what about China or Japan? If you are going for travel, you can learn a few Kanji. It's the least you could do. If you're going on business, as the article suggests, you should be a good little representative and be chosen because you know something about where you're going. Hopefully you know a lot, or at least enough to be able to order food from a menu.
It's kind of sad that no people won't even have to make the smallest step into being somewhere new of calling places by their real names. If you lovingly name your kid George, would you be upset if the Mexicans only refered to him with the pronunciation "hor-hey"?
At least in America, I think many people are too lazy or uninterested to want to get down to the nitty gritty details of programming a printer or reconfiguring something "complicated". Think of that concerned-looking lady that lives down the street. Do you really think she wants to take her one hour of free time this Thursday poring over some thick manual on how to set up her file system? She'd much more likely be willing to pay a neighbor's son to fix whatever problem she's having.
Yeah, Milwaukee. =)
Back home, people call ATMs Tyme Machines because that's the company that bought them all out. I get to college and ask where the nearest Tyme machine is in town, and I get some smack about this book, "we're not in London, sweetie," etc.
German you can probably read simple things after about a month of study because it looks like old-school Enlgish slang, but the word order is pretty different. It's very intuitive, but different from English. (Except for old phrases like "with this ring do I thee wed" and such.) So you have to translate more like sentence for sentence.
Japanese is a different beast. These people lived on their islands for thousands of years with very little influence and developed some really different things. Totalyl different from Chinese grammar structure. It's very simple. If any part of a sentence has been used recently except the verb (which is without fail at the end), you don't repeat it. So you ahve to translate paragraph for paragraph. Plus the yhave just as many idioms and little tricks as English, so exposure is the key.
Sapir-Whorf Theorem? I hadn't heard of that! When I get back from class (Japanese) I'll have to look it up. Actually, just the other day I discovered that the word for "lonely" in Japanese (sabishii) can be used for more than just people. Like if you're eating dinner and you want butter but there isn't any out, you are "lonely" for butter. So I was thinking that I needed something, but more in the "sabishii" sense than any sense you can come up with in Enlgish. I'm sure I would have had the same thought, but if asked to explain it, by filtering it through Enlgish i would have lost some of my original meaning. It's cool that you mentioned that just now!
And YES I get stuck in different languages, I was in a German swing all this week, dreaming in it, etc., which was great for German class, but awful for teh other two. I would just keep dipping into my German pools for Japanese words instead of just thinking in Japanese. (I've studied French for about 7 years so I rarely have a problem with it.)
blah blah blah me me me. Do you study languages? Maybe you should email me: phillipm@carleton.edu
Now hand me a beer and let me get back to Zelda. Link needs my help or the Triforce will never be recovered!
For more information on the mixing of vocabularies with lots of immigrat populations, you should read The Language Instinct my Pinker. I think chapter 3 or 4, somewhere in the beginning, deals with that exact phenomenon, and it's REALLY interesting! Kids are amazing with it, in short.
Sometimes I wonder if, need I at some point turn off my anti-code-mixing brain part (say I get really drunk or in a sticky situation abroad) if anyone else would be able to understand it. Japanese, German, French? Who else knows German and Japanese? [siiiiiiigh]
Or perhaps does pain engender some other sort of emotion for other people?
According to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct (and I'm sure other sources), there are almost switches in our brains for head-first or head-last grammar, nomative languages, the concept of dative, different pools for vocabulary, etc. I think code mixing is sort of like double-dipping, where you get the blue paint in the red jar, and you have to make efforts to get your pure red again.
Can you perhaps describe a situation in which you would want to code mix? (Besides for rhetoric or for entertainment purposes at linguistic cocktail parties...) I would feel so guilty doing it on purpose!
Do people really think we're ok with getting spam? Sure, you can just delete it, but it feels like an invasion of privacy, like nothing is completely personal anymore, like someone is always knocking on your door. You don't have to answer it, but you'll always look out the window to see if it's someone you know, and you get sick of seeing another door-to-door salesman.
Sometimes it's hard to decide what to do and not do with my time, and it seems like the few things I sign up for right away just eat up my time and so I decide not to take on any more activities or start any new projects until 'the schedule clears up' ...at the end of the term! I'm really looking forward to reading the replies to this article once it settles down a bit...
Now, if I wanted to start my own project, come up with some brilliant idea on my own and work on THAT too, I think i'd get even less sleep...
Does anyone know what sort of protections were in place for software developpers previously? If nothing, this will definitely cause some major upheaval in the business of software in Europe! More monopolies, more globalization of the American democracy-but-with-oligaries paradox.
Anyone who is in Europe now have some insight?
I meant Harvard undergraduate grades don't count for that much.
Actually, when applying to most grad schools, your undergrad GPA is multiplied by a certain factor depending on both the difficulty of the college AND the amount of grade inflation. It turns out great Harvard grades don't count for that much to most graduate programs.
is now revealed. Now you can all watch me decide!
I am a college student. I go to bed between 11:00 and 12:30 every night and wake up between 6:30 and 7:30 every morning without an alarm clock. In fact, I often wake up earlier and just sit in bed waiting for 7:00 or so to get up. The secret? I like to go running. The better shape you're in, the less sleep you require.
Plus, there's this awesome pride thing that comes from beating the Evil Alarm. I HATE that noise!!
Certain countries have tried peace, Switzerland for instance, Iceland, Eire others? You could also count countries that only use armed forces for defense of it's own borders.
The problem with the US trying peace is that it requires an intelligent, educated and compasionate population, the current population in America is none of the above.
Do you think the populations of other coutries are inherently different in their intelligence and compassion? (Education is a different issue.) Perhaps in tribes and certain cities the flavor of the people can be fundamentally different, but for the most part, people are people, and some will be bullies and some will be bullied, there will always be the one nice guy that everyone respects, and the crumb that gets what he deserves. In America, in Iceland, in Nazi Germany.
However, I'll grant you that there can be certain differences. So let's look at Japan, both pre-European influence and post. Certainly, the people of Japan are intelligent and educated. As for compassion, the entire culture is founded on the concept of family. The school teacher is very patriarchal, as is the company president, as is the Emperor. Everyone owns everything and therefore respects everything. Everyone is sort of a sibling of everyone else, so privacy as a concept didn't exist until Western influence introduced it. These people will work together without government prodding to fix things, to help each other out, to celebrate. They are extremely compassionate.
Japanese history is FULL of war. Granted, mostly civil war before Western influence, but they're an island nation. And post influence? War again! And they were willing to help us (as much as their newest treatsie would allow) with Afghanistan, with their warships.
This is not an America-specific problem.
I totally agree with you. Little kids, who we can take as basically unadultered (no pun inteneded) by society, the media, etc., always come up with really violent and afwul games to play. Brothers will always give each other bloody faces, kids will always try to catch squirrels and catapult them across the fence, and people will always find war games to play with anything, even a sister's Barbie dolls. (Please forgive the sexist overtones.) Just because there's now a game that does these things doesn't mean the creaters are giving kids fresh ideas.