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General Linguistics => Linguist's Lounge => Topic started by: freknu on May 08, 2014, 03:54:54 PM
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=29u6XRY51Bk
The language bit on the end is quite interesting! ;)
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Bókmerkt for the weekend!
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Okay, just finished watching it. It was good, but sadly not academically enriching enough to keep my absolute attention. It'd be great for the average Joe with a slight interest in the topic, who the show was undoubtedly designed for. The story of how LSN became ISN is an amazing one and that show really did a good job at giving a jumbled and unsatisfactorily confusing interpretation (from the perspective of having had different explanations which were better), which was slightly disappointing. I thought Pinker was far too conservative in his segments, but maybe he was told to be by the producers, to keep it at a layman level. Pinker's approach in his books shows he has a good talent to present this sort of stuff in a brilliantly intriguing manner, whether you side with him on his philosophical standpoint or not. Still, can't argue with the fact that it's great a show like that was made, and directed a pretty big section of the show to language.
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Yeah, I often feel that way about many documentaries ... not boring and scientificy enough! XD Cosmos being one of the more recent ones. However, I did find that it was a very good for reaching out to the general populace.
We don't need a replacement for Carl Sagan, we need another thousand like him.
PS. The narration by Liam Neeson was also very soothing ;)
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PS. The narration by Liam Neeson was also very soothing ;)
I am shocked I didn't pick up on that. It did cross my mind that I recognised the voice because I distinctly remember thinking, "These PBS documentaries all have a similar type of voice and I'm sure I've heard this one before," but I would not have picked out it was him without prior knowledge. Now it is so obvious.
XD Cosmos being one of the more recent ones.
I'm afraid we can't be having any dissing of Cosmos here. :P
It's just too "amazeballs" - as one says in the general parlance of the day.
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