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I played this for my kitten and she was so concerned until the code switched and then she started licking my screen
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Do you think the people who design modern sewing machines in plastic cases ever feel insignificant because of it? knowing that they're making machines with the lifespan of a dog when they could (if they'd been born a few generations earlier) be making machines with the lifespan of a Galapagos tortoise?
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What is aĀ āwugā?
If youāve been to linguist tumblr (lingblr), you might have stumbled upon this picture of a funny little bird or read the wordĀ āwugā somewhere. But what exactly is aĀ āwugā and where does this come from?
TheĀ āwugā is an imaginary creature designed for the so-calledĀ āwug testā by Jean Berko Gleason. Hereās an illustration from her test:
āGleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge childrenās acquisition of morphological rulesāāāfor example, the ādefaultā rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/ or /ÉØz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g., hatāhats, eyeāeyes, witchāwitches.Ā A child is shown simple pictures of a fanciful creature or activity,Ā with a nonsense name, and prompted to complete a statement about it:
This is a WUG. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ________.
Each ātargetā word was a made-up (but plausible-sounding) pseudoword, so that the child cannot have heard it before. A child who knows that the plural of witch is witches may have heard and memorized that pair, but a child responding that the plural of wug (which the child presumably has never heard) is wugs (/wŹgz/, using the /z/ allomorph since āwugā ends in a voiced consonant) has apparently inferred (perhaps unconsciously) the basic rule for forming plurals.
The Wug Test also includes questions involving verb conjugations, possessives, and other common derivational morphemes such as the agentive -er (e.g. āA man who āzibsā is a ________?ā), and requested explanations of common compound words e.g. āWhy is a birthday called a birthday?āĀ Other items included:
This is a dog with QUIRKS on him. He is all covered in QUIRKS. What kind of a dog is he? He is a ________ dog.
This is a man who knows how to SPOW. He is SPOWING. He did the same thing yesterday. What did he do yesterday? Yesterday he ________.
(The expected answers were QUIRKY and SPOWED.)
Gleasonās major finding was that even very young children are able to connect suitable endingsāāāto produce plurals, past tenses, possessives, and other formsāāāto nonsense words they have never heard before, implying that they have internalized systematic aspects of the linguistic system which no one has necessarily tried to teach them.Ā However, she also identified an earlier stage at which children can produce such forms for real words, but not yet for nonsense wordsāāāimplying that children start by memorizing singularāplural pairs they hear spoken by others, then eventually extract rules and patterns from these examples which they apply to novel words.
The Wug Test was the first experimental proof that young children have extracted generalizable rules from the language around them, rather than simply memorizing words that they have heard,Ā and it was almost immediately adapted for children speaking languages other than English, to bilingual children, and to children (and adults) with various impairments or from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Its conclusions are viewed as essential to the understanding of when and how children reach major language milestones, and its variations and progeny remain in use worldwide for studies on language acquisition. It is āalmost universalā for textbooks in psycholinguistics and language acquisition to include assignments calling for the student to carry out a practical variation of the Wug Test paradigm.Ā The ubiquity of discussion of the wug test has led to the wug being used as a mascot of sorts for linguists and linguistics students.ā
Here are some more illustrations from the original wug test:
Sources:Ā
Wikipedia, All Things Linguistic
official linguistics post
really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:
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I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.
Exactly! It's freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.
Oh and wouldnāt it be nice for cartoons? Just anything animated. I just wanna stream things without getting conned. Must I be cartoonless forever?
i like using streaming apps but there are waaaay too many and they're all stealing my data .i wish there was a secure and organized way to have millions of shows and movies available one one app. but alas. we've truly gone full circle back to cable + now it spies on you. its a real shame. i dont want to fill my device storage with tons of boring and stupid cash grabs.
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I hate this so much.
If you'd like to support musicians streaming rights and fair pay you should support United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) who are actively working against Spotify and services unfair streaming policies.
Can you take action to create a new streaming royalty for musicians? UMAW has been working with US Representative Rashida Tlaib and he
This is a link to write a letter urging your state representatives to support UMAW & Rep. Tlaib's H.Con.Res. 102. Below is a link to their website with other ways to support them further!
The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) has mobilized thousands of music workers to take part in our first actions around the COVID
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No but you're right and you should say it.
These are smocking patterns. If you stitch these patterns into flat fabric and then pull the threads to gather the fabric, it will produce these patterns on the finished fabric. Smocking manipulates flat fabric into three dimensions.
The beautiful fabric that looked like dragon scales on costumes in the tv show Game of Thrones were produced by smocking, by sewing a particular pattern into the fabric and then pulling those threads just the right amount to gather the fabric into that pattern.
Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can āfeel normalā actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.
The amount of times Iāve heard a parent say something like āIām just not going to tell my son he has ADHD, I want him to feel normal.ā HE DOES NOT. HE DOES NOT FEEL NORMAL. HE IS WONDERING WHY HE IS STRUGGLING AND COMING TO THE CONCLUSION HE IS AN IRREDEEMABLE FAILURE.
"umm what's a real movie, you obvious snob" thanks for asking. a real movie is one that was made with the primary purpose of telling a story, not investor value. okay now the world is your oyster.
