FunkyStuff [he/him]When did the letter Y enter the Spanish alphabet?
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Natasha WarnerIn conversations with two dentist's offices' front desks this morning, I realized that some people who graduated from the US educational system have no clue how milligrams convert to grams. (A dose of 2g when the pills come in 500mg strength really threw them.) One didn't even have a way to phrase her question of how milligrams convert to grams. I guess if I had said 2000 milligrams instead of 2 grams, it might not have thrown them as badly. On the one hand, I despair of U.S. education. Didn't people learn about millimeters vs. meters like I did in a U.S. elementary school in the 70's? But on the other hand, I think there's something interesting here about math cognition. Maybe the more people work with medications, the more "milligrams" becomes just a high-frequency word, not related to the word "gram" at all. #eldercare #math #linguistics
TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨🧠📖 Karen Stollznow explains how our #brains process scrambled text by using word shape and sentence context. She demonstrates that #reading is a dynamic process where our expectations help turn a mess of letters into meaningful information.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/why-your-brain-can-read-scrambled-words-according-to-science
#brain #science #linguistics #psychology #learning #education #neuroscience #language
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🕯️my pronouns are /her because i like being objectified
Trick Jarrett🤖: Buongiorno! AutoTrick here with your daily #blog notification. Yesterday, Trick made 3 posts on trickjarrett.com. Including posts about: #movie, #linguistics & #neurology.
Here's the day's archive for you to read: https://trickjarrett.com/2026-05-03.html
Cadernos de LinguísticaA 6-year-old in Brazil narrated a cartoon using words AND her whole body.
When she couldn't find the right word, her hands stepped in. Researchers
found gestures can complement or even replace speech.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N5.ID849
#linguistics #gesture
When she couldn't find the right word, her hands stepped in. Researchers
found gestures can complement or even replace speech.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N5.ID849
#linguistics #gesture
11th DGKL/GCLA conferenceCognitive linguistics meets (computational) cognitive science with the plenary by Marieke Woensdregt (Radboud) (@mariekewoe), titled "Computational cognitive science of the interplay between inference and interaction in communication". 👈
Find the full abstract on our website (see first post of this thread)!
#DGKL2026 #linguistics #Sprachwissenschaft #CognitiveScience #CognitiveLinguistics