Michael Flynn's Blog, page 88
November 13, 2009
Little Linguists
Phascinating Phactoids
The BBC reports:
Babies 'cry in mother's tongue'
The BBC reports:
Babies 'cry in mother's tongue'
German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb.
The researchers studied the cries of 60 healthy babies born to families speaking French and German.
The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection.
Writing in the...
November 12, 2009
m_francis @ 2009-11-12T13:26:00
Le Prix Julia Verlanger
for 2009 was awarded at the Utopiales Festival in Nantes for the French edition of Eifelheim. Unlike the Hugo, which it did not win, the Prix comes with euros attached. This will get you through times of no Hugos better than Hugos get you through times of no euros. Or something like that. I am pleased that the story came across in French.
for 2009 was awarded at the Utopiales Festival in Nantes for the French edition of Eifelheim. Unlike the Hugo, which it did not win, the Prix comes with euros attached. This will get you through times of no Hugos better than Hugos get you through times of no euros. Or something like that. I am pleased that the story came across in French.
The great day on Nov. 11
The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month
when the guns fell silent.
It was on Sept. 26 wen the big drive started in the Argonne Forest and I saw all kinds of things that I never witnessed before. We started out on the night of the 25th. At 9 o'clock we commences a tank road and worked our way almost to the German's front line trenches, At 2:30 one of the greatest of all barrages was opened. It was said that between 3500 and 4000 guns, some of them of very large calibre,...
when the guns fell silent.
It was on Sept. 26 wen the big drive started in the Argonne Forest and I saw all kinds of things that I never witnessed before. We started out on the night of the 25th. At 9 o'clock we commences a tank road and worked our way almost to the German's front line trenches, At 2:30 one of the greatest of all barrages was opened. It was said that between 3500 and 4000 guns, some of them of very large calibre,...
November 11, 2009
The iron boats go
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
34 years ago today.
34 years ago today.
November 10, 2009
Mister Chairman, Tear Down This Wall!
Memories of the Fall
It's not often that you know you are seeing history happen. History is usually something that gets recognized long after it was news. There was the assassinations, of course, and the moon landing. But twenty years ago, we all knew history was happening. Except perhaps for young twenty-somethings and teenagers, for whom history has coordinate systems centered on Me. And for young men and women of a radical bent, perhaps it was also more of a disappointment than an exhi...
It's not often that you know you are seeing history happen. History is usually something that gets recognized long after it was news. There was the assassinations, of course, and the moon landing. But twenty years ago, we all knew history was happening. Except perhaps for young twenty-somethings and teenagers, for whom history has coordinate systems centered on Me. And for young men and women of a radical bent, perhaps it was also more of a disappointment than an exhi...
November 9, 2009
Japanese Practical Jokes
There is Something Eminently Spooky
about the last episode in this video.
Can you guess what it is?
about the last episode in this video.
Can you guess what it is?
Take Us To Your Leader
Aliens Amongst Us
John W. Campbell, Jr. once challenged his writers to imagine beings who think as well as a human, but not as a human would think. This is more difficult to do than at first seems; perhaps even impossible to do. [Taxonomy below the cut.:] Any such imaginary being would inevitably be the conception of the human mind, and therefore, to some extent, a human in a rubber mask.
After all, we are not trying to touch the Lizard Lords of Heynobabulos or the spider-folk exiled from C...
John W. Campbell, Jr. once challenged his writers to imagine beings who think as well as a human, but not as a human would think. This is more difficult to do than at first seems; perhaps even impossible to do. [Taxonomy below the cut.:] Any such imaginary being would inevitably be the conception of the human mind, and therefore, to some extent, a human in a rubber mask.
After all, we are not trying to touch the Lizard Lords of Heynobabulos or the spider-folk exiled from C...
November 7, 2009
At the End of an Age
Our Brave New World
The Anchoress comments on the NY Yankees parade, as seen on TV; or not seen:
The Anchoress comments on the NY Yankees parade, as seen on TV; or not seen:
I’m trying to watch the celebration in NY – the Yankees going down the Canyon of Heroes amid a couple million fans and a lot of shredded paper – and this is the most unsatisfying experience. Why? Because television broadcasters -and apparently whoever is directing them- have gone completely hyperactive. I want to see the parade. That’s all I want to see. I don’t want to see silly female reporters...
November 6, 2009
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