I make videos mainly about topics in linguistics, but occasionally about anthropology in general. Me and a few friends produce comedy films and sketches, some of which will probably be published soon.
I had previously used my university email address here, but I am using a personal one for the time being - it should be attached somewhere on the 'about' page. I don't have a lot of free time at the moment, so I won't be able to reply to everything :( However, I'll check emails regularly, and set aside time to respond every few days.
Most of don't care what consenting adults do inside the bedroom or inside the local gay bar. But I'm sorry, 8:19 and beyond - there ARE people (in the US at least) trying to expose kids to this stuff. And there ARE people who have been convinced that they were trans, and they later figured out that they never. Usually vulnerable people with autism, depression, or other issues. I get it man - maybe there are some who really are trans and just need to embrace it. It's fine - just keep the weird stuff to yourself and the rest of us are usually willing to throw you a bone.
another influence on cultural perception of time is the culture's practice of jurisprudence and justice within the culture. Western concept of time determines whether a person is guilty or innocent, the person turning off the tap after filling a glass of water in a different part of town cannot be the person who slammed the hood of the car at the exact same time.
7:47, yes, In Hinduism there's this concept of "yug/yuga" (roughly translates to ages) which indexes the cycles of the universe you could say. I'm not Hindu so idk about them in detail but I think there are four yugs in total and we're living in the final and the worst one (they call it kaliyug). The previous three yugs were supposed to be the virtuous times. It sounds vaguely similar to how the Romans viewed their past haha
i think that we can look at consciousness as being fundamentally quite similar to more specific aspects of consciousness, for example: perception of color is part of conscious experience, we have no control over it and it arises as an output (experience) resulting deterministically from an input/cause (in the condition of being in the world within an unimpaired apparatus of biological sensibility, a body) along that line, seeing color is akin to smelling fragrances and so on, but more counter-intuitively the experience of emotion, of thought, of aboutness and attention, actually all conscious qualia would then be *of the same kind*, meaning that the perception of time is as real and as determined by physics as the perception of color. so too the perception of self, of will, of desire. this doesn't offer an alternative answer to the question "could someone experience time backwards" except to say that all experiences, in every range of articulation, are possible only as a result of the causal power of all total and imperceptible reality filtering, as it were, through our embodied medium. it is a great project to attempt to discover facts about that ultimately imperciptible total reality, that is science in a nutshell, especially considering our limitations. but as for me, i don't know enough about the only partly perceptible 4th-dimensional aspect of the universe (time) nor enough about any potential (intuitively imperceptible) higher dimensions, nor frankly even of these 3 dimensions we amble around in comfortably, again, i just don't know enough to say whether the variety of extant conscious experiences, or the past and possible future instances of consciousness, show any potential for that ability/occurrence.
I thought I’d be able to understand him and then I couldn’t and I’m like “Are we sure this is the same language?” If I were a time traveler, I’d be completely impossible to understand to them until I wrote on paper and then they’d understand. We’d literally have to pass notes to communicate. Once we got to 1466 I could understand but BEFORE THAT I was so confused.
A question for Simon: In 1714, German princes from the House of Hanover took the crown over in England and on the Continent they had mostly been raised by French-speaking people, as French was all the rage back then (also thanks to Louis XIV). (Another example: Frederick II of Prussia was a native rather in French than in German.) The French R already seems to have been guttural back then, while all German dialects were still spoken with a trilled R. Now, the aristocracy in Germany swiftly switched to the French alveolar R for fashion's sake -- and one of its features is that it is often dropped at the end of a syllable, or rather replaced by a schwa. The Germans do this up to this day, in France they sometimes hardly pronounce the end-R or leave it away (as in the verbs ending on -er). Now, could it be, Simon, that George I, who is said to have barely known English and spoke German only, probably using this aristocratic R, introduced the dropping of the R at the end of the syllable that is now common in South England? After all, people tend to imitate the monarch and his fads.
I believe there is an Amazonian tribe that “looks ahead” to the past and the future is “behind them” in the sense that you can “see” the past but the future is unknown. Like a person walking backwards.
I’m not sure if I’m too late to comment here, but Eugene Vodolaskin’s “Laurus” is an incredible novel that explores time from the perspective of medieval Eastern Orthodox hagiography. The author is a scholar of the period and the novel gives a unique insight into perceptions of time in different cultures
In England and I can place Northerners to within 8 miles. Even their food is different. If I want free 'scraps' of batter on my fish and chips then are 'scraps' West of Leeds, but 5 miles South they are 'bits'....
I am Yorkshire English. I lived 4 years in Washington State (in the desert), and that was as neutral an accent (to my ear) as it gets in the US. I have lived in Wisconsin for 12 years and that isn't too bad to understand, although my wife is from Racine, WI, and I often can't make out what she is saying and vice versa. We have been married 19 years.
You are you now, as you bring up survival, probably because it’s very beneficial to be able to focus all your brain power in a temporal scale where threats can adequately be reacted to I would think.
When I went to school in Dundee in the 1950/60s, Robert Burns’ Scots was seen as a ‘correct’ Scots dialect by many teachers, but our local Dundee accent was seen a bad, and to be very much discouraged. To speak with a Dundee accent was to speak like an uneducated jute mill worker.
In Britain, in a ten minute car drive you can find yourself amongst people with a totally different accent. Before railway travel, that 10 minute car drive would have taken a day on foot. So you find these pockets of accents and culture, that still thrive. It's a shame that nobody seems to care about that. Some tribe of 30 people in outer Mongolia, everybody wants to get all passionate about preserving their distinct culture 🤔
