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bobavader:

bobavader:

“the thing is that you could photoshop chris fleming into any picture of a prog rock band and he’d just look like he’d belong there” – camille making an extremely true statement 

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pilotnextdoor:

You gotta find someone that matches your goofy

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pynksecretscene:

pynksecretscene:

stop acting like mizrahim and other nonashkenazi jews are any less Jewish, or less “authentically” Jewish than ashkenazim.

As if Iraqi Jews haven’t kept their beautiful culture and traditions since the babylonian exile, or as if yemeni jews’ accent in hebrew isn’t the most similar to the way the original israelites talked. as if djerba jews don’t speak accurate biblical hebrew. as if there isn’t folklore declaring all ethiopian jews to be direct descendants of king solomon.

Every jewish culture had kept their jewish tradition in a different way, no Jewish tradition is more or less “accurately” Jewish. judeo-arabic, ladino and so many other languages spoken by jews aren’t “less” jewish than yiddish. aren’t less jewish than hebrew.

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I see y'all reblogging my post about yiddish and this is an important one too

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worldsworstfather:

just undiagnosed myself with stupid. i know everything now.

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anyway just another fun fun life fact from your old pal Lydia but im taking a linguistics class this semester and im actually kind of terrified to take it because I’m a senior ling major who just finished & passed her thesis but i still? don’t remember that much about the nuts n bolts of linguistics when you get down to it. 

Blind people gesture (and why that’s kind of a big deal)

superlinguo:

People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on how we learn and use gestures. Until now I’ve mostly cited a 1998 paper from Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow that analysed the gestures and speech of young blind people. Not only do blind people gesture, but the frequency and types of gestures they use does not appear to differ greatly from how sighted people gesture. If people learn gesture without ever seeing a gesture (and, most likely, never being shown), then there must be something about learning a language that means you get gestures as a bonus.

Blind people will even gesture when talking to other blind people, and sighted people will gesture when speaking on the phone - so we know that people don’t only gesture when they speak to someone who can see their gestures.

Earlier this year a new paper came out that adds to this story. Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow looked at the gestures of blind speakers of Turkish and English, to see if the *way* they gestured was different to sighted speakers of those languages. Some of the sighted speakers were blindfolded and others left able to see their conversation partner.

Turkish and English were chosen, because it has already been established that speakers of those languages consistently gesture differently when talking about videos of items moving. English speakers will be more likely to show the manner (e.g. ‘rolling’ or bouncing’) and trajectory (e.g. ‘left to right’, ‘downwards’) together in one gesture, and Turkish speakers will show these features as two separate gestures. This reflects the fact that English ‘roll down’ is one verbal clause, while in Turkish the equivalent would be yuvarlanarak iniyor, which translates as two verbs ‘rolling descending’.

Since we know that blind people do gesture, Özçalışkan’s team wanted to figure out if they gestured like other speakers of their language. Did the blind Turkish speakers separate the manner and trajectory of their gestures like their verbs? Did English speakers combine them? Of course, the standard methodology of showing videos wouldn’t work with blind participants, so the researchers built three dimensional models of events for people to feel before they discussed them.

The results showed that blind Turkish speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts, and the same for English speakers. All Turkish speakers gestured significantly differently from all English speakers, regardless of sightedness. This means that these particular gestural patterns are something that’s deeply linked to the grammatical properties of a language, and not something that we learn from looking at other speakers.

References

Jana M. Iverson & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1998. Why people gesture when they speak. Nature, 396(6708), 228-228.

Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2016. Is Seeing Gesture Necessary to Gesture Like a Native Speaker? Psychological Science 27(5) 737–747.

Asli Ozyurek & Sotaro Kita. 1999. Expressing manner and path in English and Turkish: Differences in speech, gesture, and conceptualization. In Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 507-512). Erlbaum.

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why-i-love-comics:

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1 - “Mother of Exiles” (2019)

written by Tom Taylor
art by Juann Cabal & Nolan Woodard

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