https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=4820 2025-12-08T08:33:30Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=4820 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > cognition and art > language It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being b... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1667638 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/08/linguists-start-compiling-first-ever-complete-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic 2025-12-08T08:33:30Z Iceland’s former prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, has said that the Icelandic language could be wiped out in as little as a generation due to the sweeping rise of AI and encroaching English language dominance. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1666898 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/15/icelandic-is-in-danger-of-dying-out-because-of-ai-and-english-language-media-says-former-pm 2025-11-16T09:56:48Z It is a distinct language that has survived against the odds for centuries in a tiny pocket of central Sweden, where just 2,500 people speak it today. And yet, despite bearing little resemblance to Swedish, Elfdalian is considered to be onl... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1659138 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/03/runes-prove-elfdalian-is-distinct-ancient-nordic-language-say-researchers 2024-11-03T14:42:22Z Each participant was presented with a three-word starting sentence that flashed up for 300ms, followed by a second sentence that was either identical or differed by one word. Participants were asked to indicate whether the sentences matched... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1659091 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/23/human-brain-can-process-certain-sentences-in-blink-of-an-eye-says-study 2024-10-24T03:01:43Z The UK is being urged by Europe’s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with strategies to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite continued tensions over the issue. The Council of Europe ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1658554 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/19/uk-urged-to-promote-speaking-of-irish-and-ulster-scots-in-northern-ireland 2024-09-19T06:55:18Z Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657491 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/louisiana-school-indigenous-cajun-languages-community-impact 2024-02-16T08:19:19Z Besides altering the quality of our memories, switching ... can influence people’s financial decision-making and t... moral dilemmas. By speaking a second language, we can ev... rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal w... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657385 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/how-learning-thinking-in-a-foreign-language-improves-decision-making 2023-09-17T13:45:35Z One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1582337 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/race-to-save-indigenous-languages-as-they-fade-away/7946006?pfmredir=sm 2016-10-19T14:39:55Z The question of when and how language first emerged is t... tremendous controversy – it has even been called ‘th... in science’. My work is on what information can be ext... vocalisations. It is a first step in understanding where... dictates th https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1578830 https://aeon.co/essays/we-learn-more-about-our-language-by-listening-to-the-wolves 2016-09-16T20:26:59Z Researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, ... recorded two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins by the names ... having conversations consisting of sentences up to five ... The team says this shows dolphins have a language not en... from our o https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1578571 http://www.geek.com/science/scientists-discover-dolphins-talk-to-each-other-in-sentences-up-to-five-words-long-1670488/ 2016-09-14T18:51:27Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1564695 http://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8053521/25-maps-that-explain-english 2015-08-15T20:29:45Z Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a co... even protection against dementia. Now new research shows... view the world in different ways depending on the specif... are operating in. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1471891 http://theconversation.com/how-the-language-you-speak-changes-your-view-of-the-world-40721 2015-04-30T07:55:09Z Speaking two languages literally changes the way we see ... bilingual speakers think differently to those who only u... tongue. The new research by Panos Athanasopoulos, Professor of L ... Bilingual speakers can also switch flexibly between the ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1464371 http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2015/speaking-a-second-language-makes-you-see-the-world-differently/ 2015-04-02T15:29:37Z KISSING-CRUST (n.) As loaves of bread expand in the oven as they're cooked, ... LONGINQUITY (n.) Derived from the Latin word for distance, longinquity is ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1421983 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-anthony-jones/forgotten-words_b_5985494.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000043&ir=Science 2014-10-21T22:40:41Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1346062 http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower/c.html 2014-03-08T23:43:43Z "Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes." Desmond Tutu https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1298156 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5943.Desmond_Tutu 2014-01-11T11:35:00Z There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl... Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ... Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ... ... g of a cleve https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=975322 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/tongue-and-tech-the-many-emotions-for-which-english-has-no-words/266956/ 2013-01-09T06:01:31Z When the Germanic tribes known as the Anglo-Saxons and t... From Irish (Gaelic): banshee - bean síth, "woman of the fairy mound" bard - bard, a high rank of poet ... gull - gullan, "bird" https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=920525 http://everything2.com/title/English+words+of+Celtic+origin 2012-12-01T17:44:30Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=699221 http://www.economist.com/node/21541767 2012-02-07T14:27:51Z Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was no... man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of l... solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon,... In In The Land of Invented Languages, author Arika Okren ... A truly ori https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=680829 http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/ 2012-01-09T18:30:30Z On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti... It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ... Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ... "Kansha means more than maybe," he explained. ... and respecting their a https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=453504 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9498953.stm 2011-06-03T07:43:06Z Language and Cognition is the journal of the UK Cognitiv... Association. It is a venue for the publication of high q... peer-reviewed research of a theoretical and/or empirical... nature, focusing on the interface between language and c... open to res https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=442535 http://www.languageandcognition.net/Language_and_Cognition/About.html 2011-05-21T10:00:40Z An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ... The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ... The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ... The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=442512 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711 2011-05-21T09:02:19Z One's culture is too deeply linked with one's language. ... the barometer of one's culture. If one knows one's langu... can know one's own culture well. One can never reach int... eternal understanding through somebod y else's mother to... a shadow ov https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=435899 http://www.goacom.com/culture/konkani/kendr.html 2011-05-11T08:51:24Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=301271 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12126700 2011-01-06T20:44:20Z In 2005, the artificial intelligence researcher at the M... Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab set out to under... "We wanted to understand how minds work and how they dev ... It was a big task and one that years of research by scie ... But now, Pr https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=104803 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8127804.stm 2009-07-02T09:13:23Z The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=19927 http://www.tagora-project.eu/ 2007-11-20T21:17:25Z Contextualizing Concepts Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts ... develop a formal description of the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used, and combined to generate meaning. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=11375 http://cogprints.org/2139/00/flairs.html 2007-08-21T09:27:42Z Book review THE FIRST IDEA: HOW SYMBOLS, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE E ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=11373 http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/128/7/1737?etoc 2007-08-21T09:20:49Z About One Letter One Letter. Get yours at bighugelabs.com/flickr Shots of single letters of the alphabetical variety. Rom ... This is a companion site to One Digit and Punctuation, w ... ... | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=6353 http://www.flickr.com/groups/oneletter/ 2007-05-25T08:02:04Z , as I maintain, 'objects' themselves are as much made a... much products of our conceptual invention as of the 'obj... experience, the factor independent of our will, then of ... intrinsically belong under certain labels; because those... tools we us https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=4819 http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/PutnamsModelTheoreticArgument.htm 2007-04-05T13:55:56Z