Combining an acute accent and a grave, or turning a circumflex upside down, yields the diacritic known variously as a caron, a wedge, or a hacek. It is familiar to linguists and Slavists in such letters as š and ž. Taking these names in reverse order, the last, properly h�ček, is the Czech for ‘little hook’. ‘Wedge’ is self-explanatory, referring to its shape. The term ‘caron’, however, is wrapped in mystery. Incredibly, it seems to appear in no current dictionary of English, not even the OED. Yet it is the term used without discussion for this diacritic in as authoritative and influential a source as The Unicode Standard (1991, 2000).
Orthographic diacritics and multilingual computing by J.C. Wells
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Predictably, the writer is most impressed by Nicholas Christenfeld's 1991 finding that "humanities professors say you know and uh 4.85 times per minute, social scientists 3.84 and natural science professors 1.39 times", and that "drinking alcohol reduces ums."
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000300.html
But it may be Nicholas Christenfeld, a psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, and other researchers who have come up with the most appealing findings. He counted uhs among professors giving lectures and found that the humanities professors say you know and uh 4.85 times per minute, social scientists 3.84 and natural science professors 1.39 times, which, he said, suggests that humanists have more expressive options from which to choose.
And for those trying to minimize their verbal tics, Mr. Christenfeld also found that drinking alcohol reduces ums.
Just Like, Er, Words, Not, Um, Throwaways
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"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
A curious peculiarity of the Chukchi language is its different pronunciation by men and women. The women's language lacks the r-sound, they pronounce ts instead. The men's pronunciation of the r is regarded as unsuitable for women.
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/chukchis.shtml
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"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
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We can say that if paranoia means hypersemiotization of reality: each element of reality is full of sense, - then depression means the opposite - desemiotization of reality: practically all elements of reality lose meaning. In this sense depression can be understood as a temporary death, and its end as a return to life, followed by laugh, or as a resurrection.
Vadim Rudnev. An introduction into depression analysis (bad translation is mine).
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"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
I think Map is suffering from a mild depression
Mmm... I dunno. But why "suffer"? It's like in an anecdote:
Doctor: Do you suffer from erotic dreams?
Patient: Why "suffer", doctor?
Ever Existing, Ever Conscious, Ever-new Bliss
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During the entire Heian period… Chinese remained the language of scholars, priests, and officials, occupying a role analogous to that of Latin in the West. Despite the steady emancipation from foreign tutelage, Chinese characters retained their overwhelming prestige and were the exclusive medium for any serious form of writing among men.
Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince
... Upper-class Heian women were actively discouraged from learning to read and write in Chinese, no doubt to ensure that they posed no threat to male political dominance (although, as Morris points out, not until a thousand years later, after the Pacific War, would the status of Japanese women improve beyond that of their Heian ancestors).
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This prohibition conferred on Heian women an unintended advantage since it left them free to write in vernacular Japanese, employing an early variant of the hiragana script, called onnade (women’s writing).
For a period of about 100 years, the main genres of classical Japanese literature — nikki (diaries), kiko (travel accounts), zuihitsu (essays), and monogatari (tales or romances) — were pioneered by women writers who, using a supposedly inferior writing system, mastered the difficult process of forging (in Richard Bowring’s words) “a flexible written style out of a language that [had] only previously existed in a spoken form.”
http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/2002/05/heian_womens_writing.php
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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
... an insult to the integrity of MD
An insult to the integrity of "Meaningles Drivel"...
You know, Eugene, from now on you can save yourself some time by not expressing your opinion about my posts -- I am not interested in it. If you do not see the difference between making meaningless posts and being rude, then perhaps we should post in different threads -- this would be better for everybody.
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
... Upper-class Heian women were actively discouraged from learning to read and write in Chinese, no doubt to ensure that they posed no threat to male political dominance
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
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"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
An amusing accident happened lately. Somebody posted to remind us that all people are brothers and we should love each other. It didn't take our local intelligentsia too long to gang up on the guy and articulate that his post wasn't stylistically perfect and thus was, in fact, offensive.
Really? This reminds me of the scientists who don't want to interfere with the lives of native peoples in the Amazon. "Let's not pollute them with our western culture." Except that they have incredible child mortality rates and short life spans. As soon as they see that they can get the benefits of western civilization they want it! It reminds me of the "prime directive" in Star Trek. We have to let them kill each other because we can't interfere. Ummm, why not? Don't you think the dying people would prefer to be saved? Don't you think the poor would prefer a decent job and a nearby Wal-Mart?Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Better to wish for no Walmarts at all, then Walmarts everywhere.
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
Don't you think the poor would prefer a decent job and a nearby Wal-Mart?
We were talking about building Wal-marts in places that are poverty stricken today. That was the idea of the excercise. "My country is poor. We have nothing. We want a Wal-mart." Personaly, I would rather have a Nordstrom but that is probably reaching a little too high for a first cut at getting out of poverty.Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
So let's recap. Before Walmart: a town with local businesses, with fairly paid employees, that pays fair prices for goods. After Walmart: the same employees living in poverty, buying goods made by children in Malaysia for pennies a day, with profits going to a faceless corporation.
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
Amazon Top 750 reviewer - Blog - Unresolved References - Book Review Blog
Originally posted by John Dunn:
On the gripping hand,
Is this a German saying?
Jamin Williams<br />SCJP, SCWCD
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
So, while the small business owners and their employees lose, a number of people are better off.
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