What do you call the evening meal? I normally call it supper, but sometimes I also call it dinner, although dinner sounds a bit more classy to me. Is there variation in the names of the evening meal where you live? I live in South Africa, and there is a lot of language variation here. We have 11 official languages and many more languages spoken here besides 🙂
How language began is a question we have been asking ourselves for a very long time. And there are many proposed answers for it. In the video in this post, they present some possibilities. My idea is that language emerged once humans were intelligent enough to recognise sounds, and had the physical apparatus to make the same complex sounds repeatedly. The rest of language can be built on top of that system.
Don’t criticise the way people talk in their native language. All languages change and evolve, and if this mode of speaking sticks around it will be because it serves some kind of purpose. People who don’t like “uptalk” are simply not aware that language changes all the time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-internet-is-freaking-out-over-this-jeopardy-contestants-voice_565469e1e4b0258edb32d5d1
It is so weird for such an accomplished actor to not be able to say such a simple word. I mean, it’s just penguins. Although, now that I think about it, it is not a word we say very often. But what kind of problem is there with the word. It is not a very hard word to say. This video is still hilarious though 😀
This is an awesome video! I love hearing old music. It comes from a long forgotten time where everything was very different. It feels like I am listening to back to the beginning of civilization. Also, this song is in the language it was originally written in. It must have taken a lot of work to get the pronunciation just right 🙂
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