The New York Times
The Meaning and History of Memes
5 min read · Jan 27th · Internet culture is saturated with memes, but how would you explain a meme to someone who doesn’t get it?
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zyppy.com
Googlespeak™ - How Google Limits Thought About Antitrust
8 min read · 2021-08-25 · “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”…
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Scientific American
How Language Shapes the Brain
4 min read · From 2019 · The ascent of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito offers a lesson in the neuroscientific power of words
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Fast Company
How language shapes our perception of reality
5 min read · From 2018 · The many subtle differences across languages might actually change the way we experience the world.
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TED Talks
How language shapes the way we think
From 2018 · There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and h
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The New York Times
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
~18 min read · From 2017 · The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.
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altalang.com
Does the language we speak shape the way we think?
6 min read · 2021-08-13 · If we have no word for the color blue, it’s not that we cannot see it, but that we are very focused on talking about red.
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rodamots.cat
‘Gran’ i ‘gros’
10 min read · 2021-08-11 · Joan Solà A l’Adelaida, la Nausica, en Martí, la Laura, l’Isra, la Maria i l’Oriol 1. Un col·lega barceloní jove i bon filòleg em deia un dia que ell ja no havia “rebut” la distinció entre gran i gros…
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youtube.com
Evolution of the Alphabet | Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script
2021-06-24 · Buy the chart:https://usefulcharts.com/products/evolution-of-the-alphabetTypes of Writing Systems video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmz42awTRsACREDITS:Ch...
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nuvol.com
https://www.nuvol.com/llengua/guia-per-mantenir-el-catala-a-internet-145787
2021-01-05
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CUCAINA | Etziba Balutxo...
~16 min read · 2020-12-11 · CUCAINA; EL PAÍS DE LA LLIBERTAT UNA PARAULA D’UNA SOLA FAMÍLIA? Recentment, amb les meves tres germanes, hem evocat un record d’infantesa compartit. Amb petits matisos, per a nosaltres Cucaina era…
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albertcuesta.com
La Generalitat prepara Aina, una majordoma digital pròpia
2020-12-10 · Les grans majordomes digitals com Alexa, Assistant i Siri encara no parlen ni entenen català. Aina majordoma digital. Albert Cuesta
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youtube.com
El nacionalismo linguistico español. Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera
2020-10-04 · Conferencia a cargo do linguista madrilenho e Catedrático da Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Car...
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Aeon+Psyche
Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
~11 min read · 2020-09-03 · How we came to represent (through inky marks) the vagaries of the mind, inflections of the voice, and intensity of feeling
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