Podcasts about sapir whorf hypothesis

In this episode, Sean and Chadd (MJ WILL RETURN IN TO THE PEOPLE VIII) look at the colonial power of naming, but mostly the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other topics include Englandbrain, Non-Webber Musicals, and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. https://linktr.ee/onriting has everything you need to join the #ritingcommunity, including a donation link to get Wang Miao some wet food. She needs it: she keeps forgetting meals when playing politically-charged VR games.

In this episode, we explore the historical background to linguistic relativity or the so-called ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 31 Primary sources Boas, Franz, ed. (1911), Handbook of American Indian Languages,…Read more ›

Encodings were precious. The little girls heard the stories at their mother's knees, when their mothers had time to tell them…. How women, in the long ago time when women could vote and be doctors and fly spaceships—a fantasy world for these girlchildren, as fabulous and glittering as any tale of castles and dragons—how women, even then, had begun the first slow gropings toward a language of their own.The tales were told again and again, and embroidered lovingly with detail; and prominent in their ornament were the jewels of the Encodings. A word for a perception that had never had a word of its own before. … [Encodings were] precious because they were truly newborn to the universe of discourse. … “A woman who gives an Encoding to other women is a woman of valor, and all women are in her debt forevermore.”Suzette Haden Elgin's novel Native Tongue is a feminist science-fiction novel first published in 1984. The future it describes features an America in which women are considered biologically (and thus legally) inferior to men. But it's also taking place in a time when humans are in contact with aliens, and only a handful of families have the ability to communicate in their alien languages. And the women of these linguist families are constructing a language that should make it easier for women to express their thoughts—which in turn will have powerful political implications. Suzanne and Chris explore the tremendous world-building of this novel.Thank you to Michael Collins for helping to edit this episode.SHOW NOTES.Suzette Haden Elgin: Native Tongue. [Bookshop.]Other words by Elgin: Judas Rose. Earthsong. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defence. A Third Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan.The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.The homepage for Láadan.The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.An article on Láadan and emotional labour.Another article on Elgin's influence.Diane Wilson: The Seed Keeper.Next: T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land.Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon. Thank you!

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is usually reserved for introductory college linguistics courses — but the debate surrounding it is an undeniably fascinating conversation for language professionals as well.

Do the languages you speak impact how you think?

The Book of Probes contains a assortment of aphorisms and maxims from the work of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, each one set to evocative imagery by American graphic designer David Carson. McLuhan called the utterances collected in this book "probes," that is, pieces of conceptual gadgetry designed not to disclose facts about the world so much as blaze new pathways leading to the invisible background of our time. In this episode, Phil and JF use an online number generator to discuss a random yet uncannily cohesive selection of of McLuhanian probes. REFERENCES Marshall Mcluhan and David Carson, The Book of Probes (https://bookshop.org/books/the-book-of-probes/9781584232520) Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (https://bookshop.org/books/to-the-lighthouse-9780156907392/9780156907392) Marshall Mcluhan, The Mechanical Bride (https://bookshop.org/books/the-mechanical-bride-folklore-of-industrial-man/9781584232438) Aristotle, System of causation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes) G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (https://bookshop.org/books/orthodoxy-chesterton/9781511903608) Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Plato (https://bookshop.org/books/preface-to-plato/9780674699069) Weird Studies, Episode 71 on Marshall Mcluhan (https://www.weirdstudies.com/71) Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy (https://bookshop.org/books/orality-and-literacy-30th-anniversary-edition/9780415538381) Christiaan Wouter Custers, A Philosophy of Madness (https://bookshop.org/books/a-philosophy-of-madness-the-experience-of-psychotic-thinking/9780262044288) Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (https://bookshop.org/books/the-logic-of-sense-revised/9780231059831) Marshall Mcluhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (https://bookshop.org/books/the-gutenberg-galaxy/9781442612693) Harry Partch (https://www.harrypartch.com), American composer Marc Augé, Non-Places (https://bookshop.org/books/non-places-an-introduction-to-supermodernity/9781844673117) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis) Denis Villeneuve (dir.), Arrival (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt254316/) Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (https://bookshop.org/books/a-thousand-plateaus-capitalism-and-schizophrenia/9780816614028) Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit (https://bookshop.org/books/on-bullshit/9780691122946)

On this episode of Art of the Short Lil' Shorty, Jori and Bethers read to you, a story about friendship and how the power of words­–or the lack thereof–yields a violent reality.This week we feature, "The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis," by Kate Tooley.Read along with us here: The Sapir-Whorf HypothesisMore of Kate here: Kate TooleyRead next week's story here: A Christmas Tree and a Wedding by Fyodor DostoyevskySend us your art here: Artoftheshort.com Follow the installation here: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, to see all our collective weekly art!We're so excited to hear YOUR thoughts on this short story through your ART! xoxo Jori&BethersFor links to ALL short stories past and present, go here: Art of the Short story links! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jori and Bethers question convertibles–of the naked ‘girl' variety, take a crack at consumerism, and claim their rightful place as moon daughters of the PNW! Come read with us and get your ART on!Read along with us here: The Daughters of the Moon by Italo Calvino(Note: The Daughters of the Moon is featured in The New Yorker which provides readers up to four free articles per month)Listen here: A dramatic reading of The Daughters of the MoonRead next week's short story here: The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis by Kate TooleySend us your art here: Artoftheshort.com Follow the installation here: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, to see all our collective weekly art!What do YOU think of this short story? xoxo Jori&BethersFor links to ALL short stories past and present, go here: Art of the Short story links! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

String theory again just kidding. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, time dilation and Steve

Show Notes: ---------------------- Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag ---------------------- References:   Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Chewing Gum”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Chewing_Gum   “Chewing Gum”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh-tbg_0ZIY   “Rock n’ Roll: Here’s Where the Name Came From”: https://sparkfiles.net/rock-roll-origins-phrase/   “Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis”: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~johnca/spch100/4-9-sapir.htm “Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right”: https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/tics2.pdf   “Chewing Gum” Explanation from the Elvis Wiki page: http://www.elviscostello.info/faq/lyrics.php   Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1 "Chewing Gum" Lyrics:  With their cardboard hands by their sides, here's a naked man and lady And they're yours to cut out and keep and you can dress them up maybe They don't know just who they are, or who they're supposed to be You can make them happy or sad or assume their identity   So here they are in the departure lounge, it's the "Gateway to the East" She is just another mail-order bride, she doesn't know he's a kinky beast Now he gives her a picture of Maradona and child She wants to "roll and rock" As he spills his beer over her Bumps and grinds as he repeats "Bangkok"   (Chorus:) There must be something that is better than this It starts with a slap and ends with a kiss Begins with you bawling and it ends up in tears Oh, my little one, take that chewing gum out of your ears   She might as well be in the jungle, she might as well be on the moon He's away on a business trip in Dusseldorf, and she's becoming immune To the lack of glamour and danger in the West-German city today The nearest she comes to the "Dynasty" life he promised her Is a Chinese takeaway (Repeat Chorus) And though he only taught her three little words It doesn't matter if they're dirty or clean He can only control what they look like He can never possess what they mean   So, he wants to whisper in her ear All the shrinking nothingness Something always comes between them I wonder if you can guess  (Repeat Chorus)

Hello and welcome back to Mind Over Chatter! Please fill out our survey https://forms.gle/r9CfHpJVUEWrxoyx9 to tell us what your mind thinks about our chatter. Knowing what you think will really help us make the podcast even better… Now, on to the episode!This second series is all about the future - and in this first episode we're going to be considering what the future even is… Have you ever wondered how time works? It turns out, the answer is a lot more complicated than we thought.Join our wondering and wonderful conversation with philosopher of science Matt Farr, professor of psychology Nicky Clayton, and professor of linguistics and philosophy, Kasia Jaszczolt. We'll be talking about everything from physics to linguistics… and from broken eggs to Einstein's theory of relativity. This episode was produced by Nick Saffell, James Dolan and Naomi Clements-Brod. Annie Thwaite and Charlotte Zemmel provide crucial research and production support for Series 2. [00:00] - Introductions[02:10] - A bit about the guests' research[04:28] - Does time actually go from past to present to future? And does time really ‘flow'?[06:04] - The A-theory of time and John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart[07:53] - The B-theory and C-theory of time (and a little bit more about the A-theory too)[09:53] - How do B-theorists deal with entropy? Can you un-break an egg?[10:44] - The difference between the A-theory, B-theory and C-theory of time - does time have a direction? And does energy/entropy have a direction?[14:12] - Recap of the first portion of the episode, reviewing A-theory, B-theory and C-theory of time[18:58] - How the mind understands the subjective concept of time[24:24] - How languages talk about time differently and why these differences matter[27:11] - The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and how the way you talk about language affects the way you perceive and think about things[30:21] - Recap of the second portion of the episode [34:02] - How do the mental and linguistic concepts around time fit with philosophical concepts and physics of time?[40:45] - How mental time travel works and how thinking about the past is different to thinking about the future[41:40] - All biological organisms are subject to the laws of thermodynamics so we can't remember the future or act towards the past[42:55] - Cultural and linguistic differences in mental time travel and whether the past is behind us or in front of us[45:46] - Is there a conflict between the psychological and linguistic models of time and the way physics handles time?[48:20] - Recap of the last portion of the episode[52:44] - Closing and thank you'sIf you want some more information about the different theories of time we discussed in this episode, this article by Matt helped us understand some of what was said: https://aeon.co/essays/the-c-theory-of-time-asks-if-time-really-has-a-direction GUEST BIOSProf Kasia Jaszczolt @KJaszczoltProf Kasia Jaszczolt is a linguist and philosopher of language, interested in meaning in language, in the mind, and in conversation – how it is composed and conveyed.She has written five books (most of them for Oxford University Press) and over 90 articles on these topics. Some of her favourite research topics include time in language and thought and their relation to ‘real' time, semantic ambiguities, theories of meaning and communication, and representing beliefs. She gives lectures

There is a language-related subject that has always fascinated me: do bilingual people or polyglots change the way they talk, behave, and think according to the language they're speaking? To learn more about that and get someone's valuable insight, I interviewed Italian translator Sonia de Martino, who wrote her dissertation in college about this very same subject―the technical term is linguistic relativity, also known as Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. For the full interview, head on over to YouTube and watch the video version of this episode. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* CHECK OUT THIS EPISODE'S SPONSOR: LSP.expert »»» Get 15% off with the code RAFA Appsumo ― for your every app needs *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* By the way, if you're interested in checking out "Tools and Technology in Translation," here are some links: » Book » Online Class » YouTube Channel » Podcast » Webinars » Facebook Page » Twitter » Website » Email *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Stay tuned for weekly episodes and subscribe to Translation Confessional through your favorite podcast app. To learn more about my background as a translator and translation instructor, visit my professional website at RafaLombardino.com Send me an email with feedback, ideas, and requests to RLombardino@WordAwareness.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/translation-confessional/message

LANGUAGE is a fantastic system. It enables people to share their thoughts, passions, ideas and concepts. For some people, language and thoughts cannot be separated ; for others, language is a thought's vehicle, a tool to investigate Reality and to name Reality and also to create it. In Social linguistics, there is theory, commonly called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, that indicates that language not only participates in understanding Reality but also shape reality. Now, in this Podcast - How Language shapes Reality? Especially, How Haitian creole Language shapes Haitian Reality, thought and behaviors?

In this last episode of 2020, am talking about an idea that i love and admire deeply: The Sapir-Whorf Hyphothesis. Does language shape our world view ? Do you see the world in language filters, differently from other persons ? Listen, Enjoy, and Share !

01:25 - Mia’s Superpower: Adaptability * Applicable Skills to Basic Computer Programming * Parsing Information * Research 05:31 - Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology * Linguistic Relativism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) (Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis) 08:36 - Parenting While Having a Career in Tech 09:42 - Objectivity and Truth in Software Development 11:04 - Tech Parenthood (Cont’d) * Maternity Leave and Returning to Work * Part-Time Flexibility * “Keep-in-Touch Days” * Returning to Work as an Individual Experience * Discrimination & Stigma * Multitasking Expectations For All * Geographic Differences * Company Culture 24:21 - Tenure in Tech, Job-Hopping, and Juggling Parenthood * Parenting in View During the New COVID/Remote Work Era “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." – Elizabeth Stone: teacher and author Psychological Safety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_safety) and Privilege Living and Operating in Fear Code-Switching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching) Visibility of Parents 44:05 - Self-Identity in the Tech Industry * The Handbook of Return to Work (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B017YMXHM4?tag=amz-mkt-chr-us-20&ascsubtag=1ba00-01000-s1060-mac00-other-smile-us000-pcomp-feature-scomp-wm-5&ref=aa_scomp) 55:36 - Diversity Hiring Reflections: Mia: Psychological safety and privilege. John: “Just because I’m psychologically safe doesn’t mean everybody else is.” Laurie: The dichotomy of Mia and Christina’s experiences of being parents in tech. Christina: It is possible to remain optimistic that Moms in the United States will get better. Rein: Comfort and guilt in diversity hiring. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Mia Mollie De Búrca.

In this episode, Josh and Ian debate the merits of the culture surrounding political correctness within the framework of free speech. They talk about the possibility of certain speech leading to violence; the ancient Greek philosophical understanding of the logos; the history behind the idea and uses of political correctness (PC); comedians lampooning PC culture; the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis; PC as a matter of nicety and respect for others; the use of the term woman within the LGBTQ+ community and feminist circles; biological sex vs. gender identity; being offended by speech and having a tough skin; intent, impact, and separating art from artists; rhetoric and the power of persuasive language; draft dodging and the use of symbolic speech; Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; flag burning and protest speech; consequentialism and responsibility going hand-in-hand with the unrestricted expression of ideas; Bill Maher and the use of the "n-word"; and the Orwellian culture of wrongspeak in the current political/social sphere.On this week's segment of Read/Watch/Play, they talk about Nietzsche's Biography, Kafka's The Metamorphosis, CW's The Arrowverse, Color out of Space, Stranded Deep, and The Last of Us Pt. II. Follow them on Twitter at:Josh @theonlyoneblogIan @modernovermanand the podcast @NecessaryBSPodWebsite: https://www.necessarybspod.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/necessarybspodLinks:λόγοςPolitical correctness - Encyclopedia BritannicaOn Conversation: How Free Speech is the Tool for Sit-Down DiplomacyThe First AmendmentFirst Amendment Court CasesRecorded 25 June 2020Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/necessarybspod)

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Words become thoughts.The hypothesis of linguistic relativity, part of relativism, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism is a principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.

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Sapir Whorf Hypothesis ▶ Darwin's cousin sucks ▶ Amelia Earhart was found ▶ Memes are Dadaism ▶ Dogs. Hmm. Looks about right. Hyper-Obsessed is a culture/comedy podcast about life's not-so-little obsessions.

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01:56 - Chanté’s Superpower: Spotting Talent (Dark Horses) 05:33 - Perceiving Talent/Potential Essentialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism) 09:15 - Confronting Biases and Societal Categorization/Division/Labeling 18:54 - Identity as a Feedback Loop 25:04 - Health and Wellness and Human Potential 27:00 - Privilege vs Potential Actuality, Capability, Potentiality (https://www.iridiumconsulting.co.uk/2011/10/actuality-capability-potentiality/) Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047194839X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=047194839X&linkId=b2d73f4e73d7e73161087f83fbe7dd9d) Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) 36:31 - Framing; Framing as Related to Coaching Matt Ringel: Whiteboarding 101 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkILuL-2Dz0) Functional Fixedness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness) RailsConf 2019 - Keynote: The Stories We Tell Our Children by Ariel Caplan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKqvtAxGQOs&list=PLE7tQUdRKcyaOq3HlRm9h_Q_WhWKqm5xc&index=3&t=0s) 49:39 - Working with Organizations to Improve Diversity and Inclusion (Using Metrics) Campbell’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law) Reflections: John: When you pay attention to the margins, the marginalized, etc., and optimize for those getting better, you also optimize for the happiness of the rest of the people inside those margins. Jessica: Letting go of your goal allows emergence of outcomes you didn’t expect. Rein: Having values that we can use to determine whether we are moving in the direction we want to move in, and to continue to move in the direction that is towards our values. Chanté: It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality conversation. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chanté Thurmond.

Truth Wanted 2.14 – Bionic DanceIntroFaithless forumKate: Arguments from theists don’t change muchDefinition of faith and how people use itAtheist activism- Kate didn’t grow up religious; Most people in the movement came from a religious background; LGBT+ rights, women’s rightsWhat’s going on on Kate’s channel?? – working on a narrative fiction space-opera animation projectCalls • Charles – Fort Worth – Goddess Columbia – paganism, important founding fathers (Ben Franklin, etc) were part of an occult; was America founded on paganism? Dan mentions Greek principles. Charles says Columbia is everywhere. Charles doesn’t believe in Columbia as a real being but as a symbol. Dan talks about rituals for symbols (burning the US flag if it touches the ground). Columbia is a powerful, inspirational symbol that Charles draws motivation from. Illuminati next time! • Brenda – Minnesota – trans woman, asking about Kate’s experiences as a lesbian woman out as an atheist on YouTube; what is it like and how do you deal with hate? Kate says she is not usually targeted, doesn’t get much hate. “Most people think [lesbianism] is hot.” Brenda mentions special targeting of trans people from the GOP; transphobia in the community – conservatives need someone to hate. Kate, Brenda, Dan talk about what conservatives will hate after the trans community is normalized. Speculate Artificial Intelligence and its possibilities in the future.Are AI’s capable of beliefs? Kate – What makes me “me?” – I am what my brain does. If a person turned into a machine, is the self still there? What stops a computer from being a person? • Alex – Rhode Island – conversations with people: should I push people to use more precise language? Dan references his video with Anthony Magnabosco, where Christian Dan claimed to have been an atheist at one time, but his definition of atheism was different from how most atheists define the word. Dan says asking about definitions is important, start off that way. Kate- we should be more pedantic about words because it helps us describe ourselves better. Dan mentions the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis. Dan says words matter. People use the language that they think they know but don’t or try to express ideas they don’t know how to express. Patience is a virtue. Dan talks about having an attitude of open-mindedness. Kate says that changing people’s mind is a good feeling, but we must be willing to check our own sources. • Jesse – NJ – Talking about religion in recovery communities - What about yourself? What about the doctors? God gave you this affliction. Dan mentions karmic influence in Christianity – it’s because you did this. Jesse speculates that people who reference Christianity in healing circles do so because they need to find something good to look towards, so they point to god. Dan talks about his pastor visiting him in the hospital when he had appendicitis. Kate asks if god is all-loving, why does this happen? • Adam – North Carolina – Wants to talk about why science can’t prove anything. Kate clarifies that science has tentatively shown things to be the most likely, and that “science proved it” is shorthand for that. Adam views science as a dartboard metaphor. He believes the biggest problem with science is that we don’t re-test things. Some of science might be due to random chance. Dan says science has changed over time, and there is a sense of progress. • Elijah- what kinds of games does Kate play for game night? Kate mentions Gizmos, Secret Hitler, Cards Against Humanity, among others. The call was literally all about board games.

This week we’re joined once again by queer anthropologist Dr. Jamie Lawson to cover zombie films with a difference. Bill Pullman goes on a quest to find a revolutionary anaesthetic from Haiti in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), based on the book by Wade Davis. Next up, Mrs. Frenchie’s cat is missing somewhere in the memetic hellscape of Pontypool (2008), based on the novel by Tony Burgess. And finally a very special young girl is besotted with Gemma Arterton in The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) based on the novel by Mike Carey (includes spoilers for both).Also: Video game connections: Far Cry, Metal Gear & The Last of Us. Clairvius Narcisse. Jesus was not a Zombie. Snow Crash (again). Star Trek: Voyager: spirit animals. Welcome to Night Vale. Pontypool: the BBC radio play. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Spell. Cerulean blue. Semantic saturation. Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. 28 Days Later (2002). George Monbiot. We play a game of “Brains?”

 Alexander, a young man struggling to express himself fully after reading Gregory’s book (Travel As Transformation), returns to Uncomfortable Conversations With Gregory after his appearance in UCWG 006: Does Knowledge Without Power Lead to Idle Suffering? to carry the dialogue on from their first conversation about being bold enough to pursue the interests of great intellect. The conversation this time around gets much more personal to both Gregory and Alexander’s unique perspectives on themselves and interaction with the people of the world, eventually coming to a head for the purpose of meditation and enlightenment. The world is composed of only two things: experiences you are prepared to handle and experiences you are not prepared to handle. When an event that is outside your unconscious expectations comes into your life, you shift your conscious attention toward it so that you can figure it out and learn how to apply it in your life. This necessarily slows down your thought processes, however. Whenever two people communicate, they have to be able to fit their thoughts into a structure that will make sense in the internal model of the one they are talking to. No communication is ever perfect. There is always information lost. There is always imperfect representation. Communication only needs to be good enough to be functional, so that two separate entities can come together in pursuit of a common, conscious goal. All people rely on narrative structures to layer cognitive categories to filter the information that drives their lives. We all tell stories to explain or to justify who we think we are and what we think we are pursuing. Our conscious cognitive structures give justification for our unconscious wants, and this grows only more complex as we evolve out of childhood. This is why is so important to question every thought and value in our minds as our lives grow more mature and complex. Regardless of the specific complexities within a person’s mind, everyone bridges the gap through the use of language. Language forces us to meet somewhere in the middle of our unique subjective worlds and share, for a time, an understanding of how things are. To improve our communication, we need to be able to reach into our subconscious assumptions and processes about other people. We all operate from flawed axioms about how human beings are supposed to work, and this prevents us from seeing things clearly and really connecting with others. Alexander describes his conception of enlightenment as the pulling apart of the layers of the conceptual mind, the personal identity someone has of themselves. The enlightened mind is more easily able to address each layer of itself without harmfully tying them all together into conflicted states that do not serve the goals of the individual. The enlightened person has a greater perspective on why he perceives things the way he does and wants what he wants. The quality of enlightenment means the difference between a fulfilled life and a life of constant suffering, regardless of the activities a person pursues. Meditation is supposed to give a person the perspective of enlightenment, yet most meditators limit its effect to highly specific practices. The effects of meditation can and should be brought into regular active life, to the point where times set aside for meditation are no longer required. The goal is to become aware of your mind in everything you do, not just when you’ve decided it’s time to engage in spiritual practice. Meditation in a controlled setting does not prepare you for your mind’s interaction with the real, chaotic world. It creates addiction and dependence. If you don’t think you have an ego anymore, you are more subject to the delusions of the ego. This is a state of spiritual pride: to delude yourself into thinking you are immune to delusion. A crazy person doesn’t know they are crazy. The devil tricks the world into thinking he no longer exists so that he has greater manipulative power over it. He who says he is enlightened has just revealed himself not to be so. The goal of enlightenment is not to acquire any specific piece of knowledge or physical skill. Enlightenment is disentangling yourself from whatever arbitrary narratives and cognitive structures determine how your mind processes information. The enlightened man can adapt to new circumstances without a prior structure by simply coming into them from neutral conditions and building a new structure from the ground up. In any moment, he can reset himself to the present and act as though he knew nothing before. People come into conflict when they use terms in a categorical way that conflicts with other commonly held categories. Being transgender or homosexual rises out of a set of conditional qualities, and instead becomes an identity and a sociological concept. If everyone were able to just own the desires and apparent qualities that apply to them, these group identity clashes would never happen. Being precise with our language enables us to root out the cause of our deepest psychological misunderstandings and social problems. Know what you want, and know how your mind works. If you knew nothing but those two things with certainty, you would live a very satisfied life.   Things mentioned: UCWG 006: Does Knowledge without Power Lead to Idle Suffering? Matching Intellect with Boldness of Action - https://gregorydiehl.net/ucwg-006-knowledge-power-lead-idle-suffering-matching-intellect-boldness-action/   Gregory’s book, Travel As Transformation: http://amzn.to/2fDzgkM   UCWG 031: Do You Dare To Follow Your Hero’s Journey to Find Self-Actualization? Life Purpose As The Highest Priority With Leo Gura of Actualized.org - https://gregorydiehl.net/ucwg-031-heros-journey-self-actualization-life-purpose-highest-priority-leo-gura-actualized-org/   Actualized.org by Leo Gura: https://actualized.org/   UCWG 001: How Many Dicks Would You Have to Suck to Know You Weren’t Gay? The Practical Limits of Exploration – https://gregorydiehl.net/ucwg-001-many-dicks-suck-know-werent-gay-practical-limits-exploration/   E-Prime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime   Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (linguistic relativity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity   Andrew Galambos, Jay Snelson, and the V-50 Lectures: https://youtu.be/Whx4QA3tGCo?list=PL2902B51D3386B77C http://www.volitionalscience.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Joseph_Galambos https://www.galambos-fei.com/

On this weeks But That's Just My Opinion, Daniel Morales joins Matt and David to discuss the linguistics aspects of Arrival (2016). Daniel dives deep into the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and how that shapes the reality of the film and how the theory is actually viewed in the linguistics community. They also discuss how language varies from different cultures and what language can do for a culture. Song of the week: Have Mercy "Coexist" Follow the pod: @BTJMOPod facebook.com/BTJMOPod butthatsjustmyopinionpod@gmail.com

Enterprising Individuals is back for an all-new season of missions! First up, we explore the vagaries of first contact with the quintessential Next Generation episode, Darmok! Join us for a look at this inside-baseball show, as we talk the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, firing your wife as your “agent”, just how exactly Tamarian kids learn their language without the help of Memory Alpha, and whether or not the Children of Tama are Space 4chan! Plus, we discuss Data getting counseling, the importance of your Wire DVDs in intergalactic cultural exchange, and we feature the first guest commentator to nail a 25 word synopsis EXACTLY!Alan’s work is available on Amazon and check out his website at www.alangratz.com!Still worried about becoming electric triceratops chow? Continue the conversation by chiming in on Twitter at @EISTpod or on the Enterprising Individuals Facebook page!

Enterprising Individuals is back for an all-new season of missions! First up, we explore the vagaries of first contact with the quintessential Next Generation episode, Darmok! Join us for a look at this inside-baseball show, as we talk the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, firing your wife as your “agent”, just how exactly Tamarian kids learn their language without the help of Memory Alpha, and whether or not the Children of Tama are Space 4chan! Plus, we discuss Data getting counseling, the importance of your Wire DVDs in intergalactic cultural exchange, and we feature the first guest commentator to nail a 25 word synopsis EXACTLY!Alan’s work is available on Amazon and check out his website at www.alangratz.com!Still worried about becoming electric triceratops chow? Continue the conversation by chiming in on Twitter at @EISTpod or on the Enterprising Individuals Facebook page!

Nick Farmer He’s a linguist! And a conlanger, technically. His website: Nick Farmer Linguist His Twitter: @nfarmerlinguist Sapir-Whorf AKA linguistic relativity, and why it is a very very wrong thing. A warm and fuzzy idea that turns out, after facing science, not to reflect reality well. Nick really really wants to set the record straight on this matter. Spoken Alien Language Considering the possibilities. Different modalities. Language need not be sound-based! ASL. Frequencies of sound. Written Language Heptapod B! Bending over backwards to figure out a way for alien languages to break the linearity of time. Alien Writing System The complexity of deciphering alien writing systems. Extradimensionality. Stephen Wolfram wrote the software to create the logograms. Human language analogies. Mapping ideas and words and concepts is REALLY complicated. Everything by Ted Chiang: Amazon Support the show!

Check out JS Remote Conf and All Remote Confs!   02:32 - Brad Urani Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Procore 04:01 - Immutable/Persistent Data Structures; Advantages Changing the Unchangeable: The Hows and Whys of Immutable Data Structures @ RubyConf 2015 hamster 07:30 - Tools for Debugging 08:23 - Why do Rubyists care about things like Elm? 09:39 - Persistent Data Structure Use Cases; Functional Programming 12:07 - Testability 13:51 - Where does “functional play a role in a typical CRUD app? Active Record, The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) Callbacks Object-oriented Programming (OOP) “Nouns are objects; verbs are methods” - Corey Haines 22:49 - Coworker Receptiveness of Ruby + JavaScript Style of Programming Codebase Inconsistency? “Merit” 26:41 - Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) vs Monolithic Applications Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) Representational State Transfer (REST) 30:21 - Monoliths as a Necessary Stage in the Development of a Mature Application Elixir The Phoenix Framework ecto 33:23 - The Repository Pattern; Terminology & Naming Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler 37:40 - Structured Query Language (SQL) Avdi Grimm: The Soul of Software @ RubyConf Portugal '15 The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis' Picks Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (Coraline) Stuff You Missed in History Class (Coraline) Buffer (Avdi) New Belgium Brewing Accumulation White IPA (Avdi) Saramonic SmartMixer Professional Recording Stereo Microphone Rig (Chuck) LaunchCode (Brad) Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (Coraline) VAT19 (Brad)

Check out JS Remote Conf and All Remote Confs!   02:32 - Brad Urani Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Procore 04:01 - Immutable/Persistent Data Structures; Advantages Changing the Unchangeable: The Hows and Whys of Immutable Data Structures @ RubyConf 2015 hamster 07:30 - Tools for Debugging 08:23 - Why do Rubyists care about things like Elm? 09:39 - Persistent Data Structure Use Cases; Functional Programming 12:07 - Testability 13:51 - Where does “functional play a role in a typical CRUD app? Active Record, The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) Callbacks Object-oriented Programming (OOP) “Nouns are objects; verbs are methods” - Corey Haines 22:49 - Coworker Receptiveness of Ruby + JavaScript Style of Programming Codebase Inconsistency? “Merit” 26:41 - Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) vs Monolithic Applications Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) Representational State Transfer (REST) 30:21 - Monoliths as a Necessary Stage in the Development of a Mature Application Elixir The Phoenix Framework ecto 33:23 - The Repository Pattern; Terminology & Naming Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler 37:40 - Structured Query Language (SQL) Avdi Grimm: The Soul of Software @ RubyConf Portugal '15 The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis' Picks Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (Coraline) Stuff You Missed in History Class (Coraline) Buffer (Avdi) New Belgium Brewing Accumulation White IPA (Avdi) Saramonic SmartMixer Professional Recording Stereo Microphone Rig (Chuck) LaunchCode (Brad) Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (Coraline) VAT19 (Brad)

Check out JS Remote Conf and All Remote Confs!   02:32 - Brad Urani Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Procore 04:01 - Immutable/Persistent Data Structures; Advantages Changing the Unchangeable: The Hows and Whys of Immutable Data Structures @ RubyConf 2015 hamster 07:30 - Tools for Debugging 08:23 - Why do Rubyists care about things like Elm? 09:39 - Persistent Data Structure Use Cases; Functional Programming 12:07 - Testability 13:51 - Where does “functional play a role in a typical CRUD app? Active Record, The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) Callbacks Object-oriented Programming (OOP) “Nouns are objects; verbs are methods” - Corey Haines 22:49 - Coworker Receptiveness of Ruby + JavaScript Style of Programming Codebase Inconsistency? “Merit” 26:41 - Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) vs Monolithic Applications Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) Representational State Transfer (REST) 30:21 - Monoliths as a Necessary Stage in the Development of a Mature Application Elixir The Phoenix Framework ecto 33:23 - The Repository Pattern; Terminology & Naming Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler 37:40 - Structured Query Language (SQL) Avdi Grimm: The Soul of Software @ RubyConf Portugal '15 The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis' Picks Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (Coraline) Stuff You Missed in History Class (Coraline) Buffer (Avdi) New Belgium Brewing Accumulation White IPA (Avdi) Saramonic SmartMixer Professional Recording Stereo Microphone Rig (Chuck) LaunchCode (Brad) Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (Coraline) VAT19 (Brad)

Sometimes there are moments in our lives that force us to redefine ourselves. A concrete wall can -- at times -- pop up just as we are joyfully walking down our heroic journeys. And man....can this be frustrating or what? Today I'm thinking about Redefining You and would like to share three tips to help you define yourself.  Today's mantra: “Trust in discovery. Be open to where your feet will land next."  Whenever a concrete wall pops up in our lives, look carefully at the wall. If you look close, there's often a little arrow sketched into the wall pointing us in another (and often times more beautiful) direction.  Or a beautiful new person meets you at the wall and takes you down a new path for a short time. Or sometimes you can pull out your waist belt grappling hook and haul yourself over that wall if it's not too high (childhood Batman fantasy anyone?). But when you can't climb that wall, here are three tips to become aware of your new direction. 1. Stop Carrying So Much Tim O'Brien has a beautiful book called The Things They Carried. It's a brilliant look into what the soldiers in the Vietnam War carried with them both physically, emotionally, and mentally.  Many of the story's characters struggled to move forward in their lives until they learned to stop carrying so much.  The art of letting go is not easy. I stink at it.  As much as I pride myself on being a minimalist, I struggle to let go of things. I have gadgets, clothes, and other material things that I don't need, but can't for some reason donate to charity or recycle. I have childhood memories that still challenge my daily positive outlook in life. It's so hard to let go of these things, but by doing so they allow us to move forward in life.  I recently met a yogini who after a terrible breakup of a long-term relationship, moved from California to Costa Rica and unplugged herself from the digital world ten years ago: no tv, no internet. She told me how much she added to her life when she subtracted the things that didn't matter.  Open   I'm in the midst of redefining myself right now and honestly don't have a clear plan of where this all will lead to. But I know that I need to keep exploring. Almost all of the extraordinary people I've interviewed in my work have had this type of open mind when they choose to stride down their own heroic path.  Joseph Campbell reminds us of following our bliss on our own individual paths: “When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.” So I'm trusting in this openness.  Ten years ago I entered into the teaching profession because I wanted to transform education and redesign the high school learning experience. I struck a concrete wall and am burnt out on trying to transform education. So I moved on and shifted instead of continuing to walk into a concrete wall. Because, well, continuing to walk into a concrete wall hurts.  Five years ago I was on track for Team USA (and perhaps Olympic qualifying) in triathlon. Injuries and the unnecessary stress it put on ability to be a loving family member and husband forced me to redefine myself.  Concrete wall. Four years ago, my wife and I started our harrowing journey into persevering through chronic Lyme Disease that took my wife from running marathons to a wheelchair in just a few months.  Concrete wall.  My wife had to quit teaching because her body wouldn't allow her to do so. She redefined herself by writing her first YA fantasy novel and launching a boutique gemstone jewelry line that uses the healing properties of gemstones. (yes, I know...I'm a lucky guy ;) Three years ago, I launched my writing career and started interviewing some of the greatest minds of our time.  Since launching Your Life on Purpose two months ago, I've had over one hundred people reach out to via email to share their love and appreciation. Over 50,000 people have tuned in.  And when I took The Purpose Manifesto message to my writing, my writing career has sky-rocketed. Over 10,000 people have read my recent articles on Elephant Journal.  Anne Lamott said, “Don't look at your feet to see if you're doing it right. Just dance.” And so, I'm putting on my dancing shoes.  You with me? Words...Words...Words   We're a social species. On my LinkedIn profile, I use to have “Storytelling Animal” as my job title. In other words, I was calling myself “human.” But, I think only a few people got the joke.  After landing an interview at Apple headquarters in 2014, Apple flew me to Cupertino to sit down with the executive team.  One of the many incredible executives there told me that he didn't quite get “Storytelling Animal”. It sort of made me come off as an arrogant marketing guy who is such an animal at spreading a message. Whoops. We are a storytelling species. If you were to tap into your primal roots, you'd remember the days of sitting around the fire and sharing stories.  But that doesn't mean we're good at communicating effectively.  Sometimes our message can get so easily constipated and misinterpreted. Like the caveman, I sometimes grunt when I need to learn to use the correct words.  That's why I love languages. If I had one superpower in the world, it would be to be able to speak every language in the world (or universe). Discovering new words and developing deeper semantics allow us to create new realms of understanding and create new language, especially because our realities are constructed (says the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) by the words we use to construct our reality.  New words -- new language --  can help us see the arrow that's scribbled on the concrete wall. It can even bridge new relationships and connect you to your tribe of people that will help you live extraordinary.   I'd love to hear from you and learn from your thoughts. 

In Episode 8, my guest is Lindsay Dow, a really enthusiastic and cool independent language teacher from the UK. Lindsay is well-known for her great Youtube videos about all aspects of language learning, and she was also a winner in the Sensational Fluent Giveaway. “No one learns a language because they want their life to stay the same.” The show doesn't follow the usual interview format, instead Lindsay came on as a co-host and talked about her favourite blogs and articles, as well as her own story of language learning. She also helped me select the Tip of the Week. You will learn: How music and lyrics from Sheffield can teach you great English Which Asian language was a total eye-opener for Lindsay Why travelling is the greatest motivation for language learning How to stop getting bored by the language you're learning (hint: Celebrity crushes help!) Why J-Lo has insured body parts - and what that's got to do with Germany How everyone (certainly the two of us!) feels the pressure of maintaining language skills Our exclusive permission to you: Learn AS MANY LANGUAGES AS YOU LIKE Language Learning Tip of The Week Set yourself some goals and challenges, write them down and try your best to achieve them. For example, making a language video, writing a blog article in another language or reviewing 50 items on Memrise could be a goal. It's important to make sure that you do go easy on yourself if you don't hit the goal. It doesn't make you a failure, so make sure you know how to do better next time and move on! Our Tool and Blog Recommendations for the Week Wordreference and Linguee, two great online dictionaries Language Surfer Koko the Polyglot A Frog's Life - un blog BD français Omniglot Oh My God My Wife is German Itchyfeet Language Book Recommendations The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher And Here are the Other Sites and Tools we Mentioned Feedly and Bloglovin for following all the blogs your heart desires The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis The Next Tango in Paris by Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Atlantic 12 Mind Blowing Number Systems from Other Languages

高手用烂语言也能写出好软件吗？ Objective-C──Mac 和 iOS 软件的指定开发语言──语法奇怪（吴涛有详细举例），苹果的另一专属语言 AppleScript 也相当难用，但 Mac 和 iOS 的商业成功让人捏着鼻子学 Objective-C。 和 Objective-C 相比，谷歌力推的 Go 更像是一种未来可行的全功能语言。 程序员喜欢解决「通用型问题」（generic problem），而 Objective-C 擅长的恰恰不是通用型问题。 相关链接 JavaScript 是什么？ NeXT Objective-C Xamarin.iOS (旧名MonoTouch) Titanium Unity MacRuby 「垃圾回收」机制 函数式编程 C# ASP.NET 《大教堂与市集》 Common Language Runtime AppCode (Objective-C 的第三方 IDE) PhoneGap (Cordova) Ken Thompson Rob Pike Space Monkey Brent Simmons: Surviving UI Programming Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 人物简介 李如一：字节社创始人。 Rio: Apple4us 程序员。 吴涛：Type is Beautiful 程序员。

We go over the basic premise of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and it’s (limited) usefulness to naturalistic conlanging, with a couple of tangents here and there. Top of Show Greeting: Danish (translated by Samuel Kilsholm) Links and Resources: Wikipedia entry on linguistic relativity Linguistic determinism Experimental languages Verb framing Eskimo snow word myth NPR story on study... Read more »