tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post4017662613710702519..comments2024-03-29T03:45:01.236-07:00Comments on TalkToYoUniverse: The language you speak influences how you think!Juliette Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-25809076422028318962010-08-03T08:27:08.692-07:002010-08-03T08:27:08.692-07:00I have a reason for each of the languages why I...I have a reason for each of the languages why I'd like to learn them, but yes, I know there will be lots of memorization. I'm leaning toward Japanese for the anime my husband and I both enjoy (and he's said that he'd learn it with me--someone to practice with) and Hindustani because I'm falling in love with Bollywood movies (and one of my writer friends is Indian). The songs are so beautiful. Though as long as I can get a phonetic set of the lyrics for me to learn and their translations, I can get by. ;D <br /><br />I think Japanese is the most likely choice right now. I really want to have another language, and even though I already know some Spanish (thanks to middle school and high school), I just don't find it as interesting. Too familiar, I guess. I really should improve my proficiency in it anyway.Jaleh Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942272578488986874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-28955300536631480642010-08-02T10:13:22.373-07:002010-08-02T10:13:22.373-07:00David, you might find the adverbs of location and ...David, you might find the adverbs of location and motion in Hupa interesting (Hupa — a cousin of Navajo in California spoken by depressingly few elders). The PDF below is a dissertation on Hupa grammar. The discussion of directionals starting on page 250, and especially the somewhat dense map on page 252, might give you some ideas.<br /><br />http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/documents/dissertations/golla-1970.pdfWmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10894049524583247454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-44637107324208593722010-07-29T16:21:36.655-07:002010-07-29T16:21:36.655-07:00Working on a story about time travel, including tr...Working on a story about time travel, including travel sideways in time.<br /><br />Time is visualised as a river (timestream) flowing from the past to present to future. Relative directions: "Uptime" (i.e. upstream, or into the past) "Downtime" (downstream, or into the future), and I'm thinking about tributaries of river systems for the crosstime directions (i.e. character finds herself on a timeline with few connections to other timelines, maybe she thinks in terms of a creek rather than a stream or river).<br /><br />Absolute directions...something to ponder.<br /><br />Along with how other-language speakers might visualise the whole damn mess of tangled timelines. :)David Marshallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-48358705030369323942010-07-29T05:47:34.301-07:002010-07-29T05:47:34.301-07:00This is something I've always believed and lov...This is something I've always believed and loved. It's why I do have to have an idea of what kind of language a culture speaks before I can just dive in writing them, and why my language focus involves more of the breakdown of concepts and organization of thought than which letters they prefer.Megs - Scattered Bitsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-69007247353414562322010-07-28T18:40:01.189-07:002010-07-28T18:40:01.189-07:00Interesting point, Eric. You're right that th...Interesting point, Eric. You're right that the manipulation of language can serve political purposes and change thinking.<br /><br />Jaleh, thanks for your comment. Japanese is cool, but requires lots and lots of memorization; so does Mandarin because of the character system. I don't know much about Hindustani. I'm not telling you to rule these languages out, but Japanese and Chinese I know will involve a significant time investment, so make sure you're excited about the prospect before you commit!Juliette Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-69937263887962706042010-07-28T18:00:15.481-07:002010-07-28T18:00:15.481-07:00That was neat to see a comparison of various langu...That was neat to see a comparison of various languages and how they phrase events. I'm not sure that I can utilize this much in the stories I've already started but maybe in a future story. <br /><br />I will certainly keep this in mind when I start a new language, once I settle on which one I want to try to pick up. I've been thinking about Hindustani, Mandarin, and Japanese. While I could try to learn all three, I'm not that great with languages and all three utilize a completely different lettering system from English.Jaleh Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942272578488986874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-46633071880362247492010-07-28T00:56:37.626-07:002010-07-28T00:56:37.626-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.michael jordan shoeshttp://www.michaeljordanshoes.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-58493352262250456012010-07-27T20:11:20.677-07:002010-07-27T20:11:20.677-07:00Orwell's 1984 is an ideal case in point here, ...Orwell's 1984 is an ideal case in point here, I believe. Recall the scene where one Party member is bragging to another about the beauty of the destruction of words, and how soon people won't even be able to have a conversation whose topic is disobedience, much less rebellion.Eric Del Carlohttp://ericdelcarlo.comnoreply@blogger.com