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STRESS-SHIFT: stress, accent, and rhythm EXPLAINED
[…] The stresses shown in dictionaries are so often different from the reality of English speech. To understand why, we need to unpack STRESS, ACCENT and RHYTHM! For animations, a big thankyou to Marta at / @3dprintsandleaves 0:00 Introduction 3:36 … Continue reading
Parts of speech English doesn’t have, but these languages do!
Nouns, verbs, prepositions and… osphresaesthemes? Watch me get animated about the many parts of speech around the world. Support: please scroll down for links! Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_… Tip me once: https://www.ko-fi.com/NativLang Patronize me per creation: / nativlang ~ Shortly … Continue reading
Pictorial books from Mexico defy our definition of writing – Ñuu Dzaui pictography
The Mixtec script looks like pictures. It’s a writing system. How does it work? What happened to it? Here’s what makes their glyphs unique, even how their usefulness outlasted colonization. Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_… Check my sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e… Group to … Continue reading
Cooking with Banana Leaves & Sewing My Own Clothes: A Self-Sufficient Life
[…] She crafts a batik, using traditional craft techniques and then sews a dress from the hand-dyed fabric. Our Book: http://geni.us/MothertheMountain Art prints: https://www.motherthemountain.com/store / motherthemountain / motherthemountain Anastasia’s Instagram: / anast.asia Julia’s Instagram: / juliavanderbyl We are sisters, Julia … Continue reading
Will Algorithmic Self-Censorship Unalive Language? | Otherwords
TikTok users are altering their speech to evade algorithmic filters–but will this harm language in the long run? Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and finds the fascinating, … Continue reading