'Tebowing' becomes officially recognized as a word - USAToday
The Exclamation Comma. “Just because you’re excited about something doesn’t mean you have to end the sentence.”
That’s true.
100 common English phrases from Tyndale’s King James Bible in 3 minutes. And a fascinating BBC documentary on the making of the KJB. (via)
“But it’s striking that 9/11 and its after-effects have left almost no traces in the language of everyday life.”
(via theweekmagazine)
MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of His Son’s First Words, Graphs It
Cognitive scientist Deb Roy blew the curve for Flip cam-packing proud pops. Since he and his wife brought their son home from the hospital, Roy has captured his every movement and word with a series of fisheye-lens cameras installed in every room. The purpose was to understand how we learn language.
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Babies May Pick Up Language Cues In Womb
The distinctive sounds of a newborn’s first cries may be influenced by the mother tongue of its parents.
A new study of over a thousand recorded cries from 30 French newborns and 30 German newborns found differences in the cries’ melody patterns. French cries tended to have a rising melody, while the German cries tended to have a falling melody.
The finding suggests that newborns just a few days old may already be trying to imitate the prevailing intonation patterns of the language they heard while still in the womb.
continue reading…NPR
