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Tom Veatch
Flames of inspiration often leave smoke signals behind.From mine, these.
| Read | Read IPA First. Let the International Phonetic
Alphabet bring basic phonetic literacy to individuals
and whole languages. Self-study method and material, offering a access to basic literacy on one sheet of paper. Given pictures instead of Latinate vocabulary as labels for columns and rows, even illiterate learners can identify the sound for each symbol, thus overcoming the one insurmountable obstacle in acquiring literacy. |
| Woggle | A paper on the South Asian head Woggle: description of form and meaning, interactional use, related gestures, amazing history and prevalence, even its emotional and sometimes religious significance. Instead of making fun, let's learn it, learn about it, learn to recognize and understand and do it, and give ourselves permission to start to use it. It's a value-add for humans. |
| Veatch 1991, English Vowels | A U Penn dissertation in Linguistics comprising acoustic physics, articulatory phonetics, surface phonology, dialectology, and historical linguistics, all regarding that most-understood niche in knowledge of that most-interesting species, us. |
| Translation Graphs | A project for representing media and documents along with their translations. Version 1.0 as of 5/29/2024: super-easy multilinear text display tables. Download code, how-to & examples. |
| Human Evolution | Logic constrains biology, biology constrains us, and yet we think and speak and feel. How did we get here, then, and what parts came in what order? This was a lot of fun to write. Includes Tautology, and Cognitive Biology, and Conceptual Archeology. |
| Real Time Scrolling Spectrograph | Watching a time-frequency analysis unroll on the screen as you speak, whistle, or sing, is perhaps the coolest thing in all of speech science. I used one of these in grad school, so I wrote one when I had the chance. So amazing, so much fun! Speak slowly. Whistle! Do a scale. Say "why" slowly and watch your vowels evolve. Compare "you" and "yow". Compare high and low pitch. Go play! |
| PC? | It's not PC but cursing is a sign of intimacy with the listener. |
| Watch your pronouns | Grumpy Tom says Mind your We's and They's |
| The Linguistic Pragmatics of "Black Lives Matter" | A little linguistics goes a long way, getting us all on the same page. |
| Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy | Resources in Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy |
| Trolling | If you don't know who the turkey is, it's you. A new kind of speech act, trolling, is seen to have a rich and peculiar structure, analysed here using five imputed participants including as follows: true speaker (the troll), acting speaker, true audience, straight audience, and shocked/reactive (trolled) audience. This collaboration elaborates the intentions and moral views of each, and the social consequences. |
| A More General Theory of the Syllogism | Abstracting logic. Aristotle's
list of syllogisms missed half of them; there's nothing to them
(H!); and we can do better
without. Still it is pretty fun and cool, considering this was the intellectual pinnacle of humanity for 2000 years, and plus I'd say this is not a bad introduction to "term logic", and might be suggested reading for students of computer science, philosophy, classics, and/or math. |
| Devanagari | a resource for learning the Devanagari script. |
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