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Comment by Sean Murphy on September 18, 2011 at 12:21pm

@ Dallas Gaytheist:

I recently saw someone make a similar comment on TV.

"You're overwhelmed, Mr Freeze is underwhelmed, why can't anybody just be whelmed anymore?"

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on September 17, 2011 at 6:05pm

I found it interesting in that video that they could not see the blue square on the left.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on September 17, 2011 at 6:05pm

Interesting Natalie. I'm sure there would be brain differences. The brain is very plastic.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on September 17, 2011 at 6:04pm

You can debunk something, but why can’t you bunk something?

Comment by Natalie A Sera on September 17, 2011 at 5:58pm

Colors and words -- interesting! Historically, the Japanese had words for green and blue, but the border between them was in a different place: dark or kelly green was considered blue, and lime green was considered green. So they had "blue" grass, and "blue" traffic lights, although we would definitely consider them green. What is interesting is that, with Western influence, the usage of these words has changed within my lifetime. When I first went to Japan in 1968, other things with the same hue as grass or traffic lights were still called blue, but now they're being called green. The only linguistic anachronisms that persist are the aforementioned grass and traffic lights, but if you ask them, they will say they are really green. So I wonder if the brains of the young folks would exhibit differences from the brains of the older people!

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on September 17, 2011 at 5:32pm

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 4, 2011 at 8:33pm

May be worth seeing.



Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 1, 2011 at 1:34pm

The History of English in Ten Minutes

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 6, 2011 at 10:14am

Clicktivism

The tumultuous events in countries such as Tunisia and Egypt in 2011 have been called Twitter revolutions or Facebook revolutions, though the role of these social networks in shaping political events in these countries has been disputed.

Commentators have taken the same view about other online protests, arguing that adding your name to an electronic petition or sending out a tweet in support of some cause is an effortless activity that makes you feel good without achieving anything useful. This view was forcefully put forward in October 2010 by Malcolm Gladwell in an article in the New Yorker, “Why the revolution will not be tweeted”.

Though clicktivism has been appearing as a derogatory collective term for such purely symbolic actions, oddly it began life several years ago as a positive term for the online support of good causes and has only recently flipped sense.

Read the rest here.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 6, 2011 at 10:10am

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