#episode 82

[nowarin]

I was sad we didn't get to see more about the implications of suude being am amplifier of magical abilities. I wanted to see Scanlan using sorcery

[jin-ki-sayo]

I'll never be able to get over the fact that My baby Shirou was seen as a bigger threat than Goenji

He was so problematic for the opponents that Chae-Chan-Soo had to eliminate him first to gain any lead in the game

[dailyshowwithjonstewart]

Fuckface von Clownstick Spins Dinner Shooting for Ballroom Agenda and Blitzer Is CNN's One-Shoed Hero

Jon Stewart dives into the chaos at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: After a shooter interrupted mentalist Oz Pearlman revealing Karoline Leavitt’s baby name, cabinet members abandoned their wives to rush to safety, Wolf Blitzer reported on the scene without a shoe, and Fuckface von Clownstick insisted none of this would’ve happened in his larger, more secure, East Wing ballroom. Plus, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog recounts his traumatic night of dodging bullets while trying to avoid having his carcass eaten by RFK Jr.

Jodi Kantor - Supreme Court Coverage & How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jodi Kantor sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss The New York Times’ Supreme Court coverage and her latest book, How to Start: Discovering Your Life’s Work. They talk about getting a behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court’s internal documents and private correspondence that detail the expansion of shadow docket cases, how the partisan results of rulings benefit President Fuckface von Clownstick more than previous Democratic presidents, and Kantor advises young graduates on approaching their life’s work in a positive, productive way in How to Start.

[andwhatnot1]

Liu Bei's downfall was painful, but every mistake he made felt so human, he really just wanted to avenge his brothers. It made me more sad than frustrated, because grief has a way of changing a person, making them almost unrecognizable, causing them to make stupid decisions. And in Liu Bei's case those decisions ended up wasting years of hard work and resources, leaving Shu in a highly disadvantageous position... okay I lied, I actually felt very frustrated...

Kongming tried to help, even after Liu Bei dismissed him, but it was so sad to watch him desperately trying to avert the inevitable.

What was very respectable thought, that in Liu Bei's final moments, he recognized how he had mistreated Kongming and admitted his mistakes. The way he reflected on everything he owed to him, recalling their first meeting... It broke me. I cried my eyes out

Now, everything falls on Kongming, as if he wasn't already carrying the weight of it all. But now all the responsibility is on his shoulders, he is left to pick up the broken pieces, alone..

[lingthusiasm]

Lingthusiasm Episode 82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences

Linguists are often interested in comparing several languages or dialects. To make this easier, it’s useful to have data that’s relatively similar across varieties, so that the differences really pop out. But what exactly needs to be similar or different varies depending on what we’re investigating. For example, to compare varieties of English, we might have everyone read the same passage that contains all of the sounds of English, whereas to compare the way people gesture when telling a story, we might have them all watch the same silent film and re-tell it back.  

In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about linguistics examples that have been re-used in lots of studies to get large groups of people to produce comparable language data. These sentences are supposed to be pretty unremarkable so we can focus on doing linguistics on them, but they end up having a sort of charmingly banal vibe that makes them much beloved by people who have spent tons of time poring over recorded files. We talk about The North Wind and the Sun, the Stella passage, the Rainbow passage, the Harvard Sentences, the Frog story, the Pear story, and the Tweety Bird video. We also talk about what goes into creating different genres of reusable example sentences, from phonetic balancing to what makes a concept culturally specific, as well as our experience learning about and coming up with various examples. 

Have a favourite recurring example that we didn’t have space for here? Let us know! 

Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here. Announcements: 

In this month’s bonus episode we present: LingthusiASMR, a very special bonus episode, in which your hosts Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about linguistics in a very relaxed manner by reading one very large classic set of charmingly banal linguistics example sentences. Several people have told us that this has helped put them to sleep, which isn’t usually our goal but it sure is for this episode! 

Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 70+ other bonus episodes, including our upcoming linguistics advice episode where we answer your questions! You’ll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds. Here are the links mentioned in the episode:

Wikipedia entry for ‘The North Wind and the Sun’

Illustrations of the International Phonetic Association (IPA)

International Phonetics Association - Journal of the IPA

The Speech Accent Archive - Please Call Stella

The Speech Accent Archive - Submissions

The Rainbow Passage

Gender Reveal Podcast episode discussing gender and voice

The Harvard Sentences

Superlinguo post on The Harvard Sentences

Wikipedia entry on ‘The Frog Story’

Frog Story corpora

‘Visual narrative comprehension: Universal or not?’ by Neil Cohn

The Pear Story video 

Pear Film World Corpus

‘The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production’ By Wallace L. Chafe

‘A Pear Story Study of information status, thematic role and animacy in Meithei (Manipuri, Meiteiron)’ by Shobhana L. Chelliah

‘The Chinese Pear Stories - Narrative Across Seven Chinese Dialects’ by Mary S. Erbaugh

Looney Tunes ‘Canary Row’ video

‘Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power’ by David Adger (with David’s cat and husband as the example sentence names)

‘Don't Touch My Projectile: Gender Bias and Stereotyping in Syntactic Examples’ by Monica Macaulay and Colleen Brice

‘Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997?’ by Cépeda, Kotek, Pabst, & Syrett

‘The Diverse Names Generator: An app for decreasing bias and promoting inclusion’ by Maura O’Leary, Rainey Williams, Mario Peng Lee

Diverse Names Generator

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Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, and our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles. This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

[sailor-v]

[mydysfunctionalvampirefamily]

[twistedimagery]

If there’s any gripes I have about Yuma’s and Astral’s relationship is that, to me, we see Yuma fearing Astral’s safety and livelihood more than we see Astral fearing Yuma’s.

Of course we’ve seen Astral get upset when he witnesses Yuma in difficult situations and care for his wellbeing, but I don’t recall a moment where Astral considers how much Yuma risks his life to get the Number cards back or what would happen if he lost Yuma. Though it could be the keyshipper in me talking (and I’m still progressing through Zexal II as of this post)

Still, this is like the second nightmare Yuma’s had in a row this season. Give this kid some candy or something.