I recently finished a book, Blindsight by Peter Watts. I have some critiques even of the writing (it feels, at times, like he binge-watched a bunch of TED talks which he comments on throughout the book), but that’s not the most interesting part. If you want to see what will soon be a popular argument […]
continue readingLanguage and Memory
I will begin by acknowledging that this is a topic which I first began to think about in earnest following a talk given by Mark Turin at the University of Washington. In his talk, Mark brought up the difficulty he had remembering words he had heard only once while he was doing field work in Nepal. […]
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