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Chips vs. fries: I speak English fluently and yet I am always translating
Wole Olayinka immigrated from Nigeria to Calgary four years ago. When he speaks English in Canada — a language he has spoken all his life — the very thing that should connect him becomes another layer of distance.
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#canada #communication #language #immigration #Nigeria #translation #english #immigrant #distance #connection #calgary #woleolayinka

"I think it's another humbling moment that we're not the only species with rich, communicative, communal and cultural lives," said David Gruber, founder and president of Project CETI. "These whales could be passing information along generation to generation to generation for over 20 million years. Humans now are just having the right tools and desire to be able to look at whale voices in this way to see the complexity that has been there all along."

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#Ocean #Nature #Whales #Cetaceans #Science #Biology #Mammals #Language #Communication #Phonetics


A "humbling" research finding: Sperm whales communicate surprisingly like us

Their vocalizations have “close parallels in the phonetics and phonology of human languages."
Mother Jones
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Do animals have a favored tempo for communicating with each other? This study reveals a hotspot of 0.5-4 Hz for #communication across distinct species & modalities, hypothesizing that this may driven by biophysical commonalities of the receivers' #neurons @PLOSBiology plos.io/4ccWuhh
Tempo comparison across scales, taxa, modalities, and media. Top left: Spectrogram of cricket(s) chirping for 1 min. Top right: Spectrogram of nearby fireflies flashing for 1 min (N = 21). The colorbars in both heatmaps correspond to Power/frequency (dB/Hz). Bottom: Typical tempos at which different animals signal vs. their respective mean body weights on a logarithmic scale (N = 24). The plot consists of six main groups: insects, amphibians, birds, fish, crustaceans (these last four in an overlapping region due to similar weights—note that the labels here don’t necessarily correspond to specific points as the species are mixed), and mammals. The icons (light bulb, speaker, and a moving human) represent the form of the signal (light, sound, or gesture). Note that the signals are mostly transmitted through air, with two examples through water (both fish, written in blue).

A widespread animal communication tempo may resonate with the receiver’s brain

Do animals have a favored tempo for communicating with each other? This study uses a survey of published data to reveal a hotspot of 0.
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#communication #neurons @PLOS Biology

"When we say firefighter instead of fireman, we’re not just tweaking lexical units, (...) we’re challenging the assumption that one identity can stand in for all others. These changes signal something powerful: a willingness to see, to listen, and to evolve."

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Illustration featuring four colorful cartoon panels, each depicting a character with a traditional label that has been crossed out and replaced by an inclusive alterantive, written above in green. Top left: A person in orange firefighter gear holding a hose stands on a tiled floor. The word "fireman" is crossed out and replaced with "firefighter." Top right: A smiling snow figure with a green hat and orange scarf stands in a snowy landscape. The word "snowman" is crossed out and replaced with "snowperson." Bottom left: A wide-eyed figure with messy brown hair, wearing a yellow animal-print garment, holds a club and stands on green grass. The word "caveman" is crossed out and replaced with "cavedweller." Bottom right: A person in a green suit with euro signs in their eyes holds a key while standing on a tiled floor. The word "landlord" is crossed out and replaced with "landbastard." The bottom right corner includes the watermark Linguist Gone Foreign.

From Cavedweller to Human

We learn to speak before we learn to think. From the moment we start babbling, we’re handed a full starter pack of linguistic and cultural assumptions, most of which we accept as unquestioningly as…
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