Five Broadway Elephants

Margaret. NYC. TV, theater, food, love.

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Get ready to experience the closest thing we have to time travel.

The classic 1890s train film, in 4K and slowed down to regular speed!! Watch it…and remember this is footage from 124 years ago.

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Little Women, directed by Greta Gerwig (2019)

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This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.

Video by Christina Hunger

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[jenniferrpovey]

Dogs actually do have a language center in their brains. They process language just the same way we do, just not as well.

They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).

They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.

As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.

So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.

The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.

In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.

And also that is a very good boy.

[sandersstudies]

^ Would like to agree and make one amendment - very good GIRL. This is Stella the dog!

Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak. 

The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.

In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.” 

In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)

Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”

By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”

Wanna know my favorite part? Stella sometimes pushes the buttons for “Stella good” when she’s done a good job. Stella IS good! :D She also makes phrases using “love you,” like “Christina, love you, come play!”

[randomslasher]

*whispers* amazing 

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Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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#me during awards season

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And I suppose you just expect me to go weak at the knees, and fall into your arms, and cry hysterically. And say we’ll just figure this whole thing out. A bi-continental relationship with our daughters being raised here and there. And. And, you and I just picking up where we left off and growing old together. And… and… c'mon, Nick, what do you expect? To live happily ever after?

The Parent Trap (1998)

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Annie and I met up at camp and, and we decided to switch places. I’m sorry, but I’ve never seen you and I’ve dreamt of meeting you my whole life and Annie felt the exact same way about Dad so, so we sort of just switched lives.  The Parent Trap (1998) dir. Nancy Meyers

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television meme [2/10] dramas ∟ gilmore girls: my name is lorelai gilmore and i’m from a little town in connecticut.   

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[image description: A series of fanfics on ao3 who titles read in sequence are the lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”. All of them are from different authors and fandoms. The final image is a search results page for “Hallelujah”, showing there’s 1570 matching fics in total. /end id]

[khayyr]

i came. i saw. i left early

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[sailorbrazil]

they call me eggboy

[sailorbrazil]

they call me eggboy

[the-darklings]

me: “I love being a writer.”

me, whenever I write:

[ingridsbergman]

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely I know I will hear what I’ve heard before My heart will be blessed with the sound of music And I’ll sing once more