IF the Nerve Growth Factor really is good and it comes with love, long-lasting, fond, and mutual affinity is the worst circumstance for NGF or love, or both. ■→More
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Hostile mimicry
THOUGH it could be fun to observe on a behaviorist for an “armchair theory” — would a man sit like a woman, or a woman like a man — mimetic theories belong with behaviorism, where speech and language are “verbal behavior” to become “reinforced through the mediation of other persons”. ■→More
Objective non-correlative
THE original phrase reportedly was "emotional falseness", as for influence by strong emotion on the person who perceives. It must have been, the clouds were smiling on Mr. Ruskin and nobody told him. ■→More
Bogey in the tongue box
ELM is short for an Extreme Learning Machine. ELMs can train artificial feedforward networks; ELMs are pre-programmed, fast, and affordable. However, human brains rely on own, intrinsic feedback, and the role approximates a drive; the tissue uses feedforward, but not in “single-layer networks”. ELMs are to work in Computer Aided Diagnosis. ■→More
The pit of the olden cniht
VERSTÄNDNIS appears spacious an idea: it can hold comprehension, empathy, and — opinion. The elapse the Umwelt theory would need yet does not look covered in any known speech. Ticks, sea urchins, amoebae, and jellyfish would be granted own worlds, for a study of meaning as present also in human communication. ■→More
Sense in Common
COMMON sense is a sound judgment not based on specialized knowledge, says the American Heritage Dictionary. A translation of Latin sēnsus commūnis, it was to mean common feelings of humanity. — Should Thomas Paine's Common Sense have been about "common feelings of humanity", there would have had to be more than one species. The British yet remain people too. ■→More
Mabel Loomis Todd on witchcraft
TERESA Pelka is strictly a language professional, a non-believer, who has never had any interest and absolutely does not support any belief in witchcraft. The text relates to the Resource on Emily Dickinson's poetry, of which Mabel Loomis Todd was editor. ■→More
En Face
THE only approved picture of Emily Dickinson is a daguerreotype her sister would have given to one Austin Baxter Keep in 1890s. I do not like the daguerreotype simply as a negligent image of a human being. I had my first careful look and understood it was disposed of as faulty. I broke it into CMYK. ■→More
Death or life
HEAVEN could be hell, and that only in regard of what quality to have for finished perfection. The following is to compare stories on near-death experiences with known medical conditions. More→
Siddartha’s rainbow
T O consider Anatta or another Buddhist belief with regard to the verb to be, let us mind, entire collections of teachings were attributed to Siddhartha from reportedly a tradition that was spoken, and first committed to writing about 400 years after the Buddha’s death. More→
Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry
FASCICLES and print, the poetic correlative with Webster 1828, Latin and Greek inspiration, an Aristotelian motif: Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity. More→
USA Charters of Freedom
THE Constitution is a "syntax bonanza", that is, an exceptionally rich resource. We cannot have language forms that are hundreds of years aged, to learn modern grammar, but we can update the language form. Feel welcome to see the update. More→
Resource for Emily Dickinson’s poetry
THE epsilon, predicate structure, vowel contour, phonemics, person reference in abstract thought, and altogether stylistic coherence, for manuscripts and print piece-by-piece More→
A New People
WE are not developing a conspiracy theory, as Americans would first need a regime in own country, to impose over the world, and to imagine the people willing is not only a little too hard. However, Out of one, many, says the sibyl; Out of many, one, says the USA Great Seal. More→
The Latin demeanor
WHY say circles, if we say cats? Ancient money talk along trade routes can give us a clue. More→
Philology
The Greek philos and logos together have been to tell, love of mind and language. There is no requirement for a Sentimentalist flair: love is an elegant shape of a word, and minds never are fond of affective disorders. Regarding an idea ugly as a mind without natural language — love is dainty. More→
Grammar is always a project
GRAMMAR is never a program, though there have been attempts to make such a picture. Behaviorist approaches to speech and language can never be "purely scientific", as they are not objectively representative: there is much more to language than stimulus and response. More→
Feelings!
CHILDREN happen to be saying things. What if a kid said,
I'm hating you!
Do you say,
Oh no, you are not hating me. You hate me. To hate is a stative verb. Here, you can have a list of stative verbs, you're going to need it for school, anyway... More→
Grammar – Why think about space?
LANGUAGES may differ in particular words to transact between space and time, spatialization yet remains sane and good sense also when we are grown-up. More→
American English ― where from?
THERE has been much talk about American English, in terms ancestral. Researchers have analyzed speech and "derived" sounds with particularity worthy of Pygmalion. More→
FAQ: Generative & Universal Grammar
ARE there actually Language Acquisition Devices in human brains? Can brains be programmed? Could language be a result of genetic mutation? Is there one definitive grammar we could call "the true grammar"? More→
Grammatical Aspects, or cognitive variables?
THE idea of the grammatical Aspect comes from Antiquity. People did not know about cognitive variables then. Today, we can. More→
Human brains, parameters and devices
DICTIONARIES have a device for something devised, or a faculty that devises. Everyday language yet has a device for a thing that could be operated externally, from the outside. Association with such governance could not be my ideal. More→
My dear head
MY dear head does not give me headaches. This is one of the reasons I literally love it and would not change it for anything in the universe or multiverse entire and beyond. Should I spell with a big letter, “my dear Head”? More→
My HubPages
The toolbox republic
Born in Poland — and no one ever has choice on the place to be born — you cannot change your citizenship unless the President allows it.
Carpe linguam
My hub page for word sense and living American English. More→
No man, woman, child, or house, with the pie
The Proto-Indo-European "mother of tongues" does not have words for men, women, children, or houses that European languages would have in common. More→
British grammar nazis
MUCH has been written about the Second World War, including Hitler's evident lack of linguistic finesse. Therefore, I will do some pondering only, on the British who want to be grammar nazis. More→
Apples on noses
MS. de Lange's purpose was to compare monolingual and bilingual children in tests on syntax, that is, ways to put words together. She says that to speak two languages is like to have two minds. More→
Tongue entanglement
IT may have been predilection for physical factors to inspire the name "Hiberno-English", for Irish English. Ireland was named Hibernia by ancient Romans. Evidently they felt cold, yet the British do not speak "Birran English", though birrus was a word for an ancient Roman rain poncho. More→
Burning the Flag ― where is the language?
EVEN if you do not like anybody around, would rather live in a tent, make own clothes, and hunt for food ― all that to liberate yourself of American capitalism ― there is still cause and effect. More→
Larry Selinker’s interlanguage
M ARK Twain spoke American "since his birth"; it is yet impossible to imagine him saying, you are not speaking as I do, therefore you are wrong. More→
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