520 Day Reverse Exchange - 24 hours to deadline!
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sid_guardianThe 520 Day Reverse Exchange deadline is tomorrow! Please post your completed assignment to the AO3 collection by 11:59PM UTC Wednesday 13 May! (What time is that for me?)
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Your work must be complete to fill your assignment. It's fine to keep editing until reveals, but the first and each edited version must be a work that stands on its own.
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Daily Check-In
May. 12th, 2026 06:02 pmstarwatcher posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, May 12, to midnight on Wednesday, May 13. (8pm Eastern Time).
Poll #34586 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 6
How are you doing?
I am OK.
3 (50.0%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
3 (50.0%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
2 (33.3%)
One other person.
2 (33.3%)
More than one other person.
2 (33.3%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Climate Change
May. 12th, 2026 06:06 pmysabetwordsmithSome seas may soon be trapped in near-permanent heatwaves, scientists warn
Seas recover. That’s the working assumption behind most marine conservation planning – heatwaves arrive, fish flee or die, then the water cools and the count resets.
A new study of 19 enclosed seas found that resets after heatwaves may stop happening. Some are on track to spend more than 330 days a year locked in heatwave conditions. Not a temporary extreme. A new permanent state.
This isn't "maybe," this is "definitely." The world's oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide and heat. Those sinks will eventually fill up. The oceans will become much more acidic, large parts will become anoxic, and most of the water will get hotter and stay that way until the climate shifts again. We know this because it has happened before.
Does "The Great Dying" ring a bell? The oceans then became hot and anoxic, wiping about almost everything in them. And it's happening a lot faster now than then. The current mass extinction looks to be faster than anything except the massive meteor strike of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction. This might be considered a problem.
Seas recover. That’s the working assumption behind most marine conservation planning – heatwaves arrive, fish flee or die, then the water cools and the count resets.
A new study of 19 enclosed seas found that resets after heatwaves may stop happening. Some are on track to spend more than 330 days a year locked in heatwave conditions. Not a temporary extreme. A new permanent state.
This isn't "maybe," this is "definitely." The world's oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide and heat. Those sinks will eventually fill up. The oceans will become much more acidic, large parts will become anoxic, and most of the water will get hotter and stay that way until the climate shifts again. We know this because it has happened before.
Does "The Great Dying" ring a bell? The oceans then became hot and anoxic, wiping about almost everything in them. And it's happening a lot faster now than then. The current mass extinction looks to be faster than anything except the massive meteor strike of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction. This might be considered a problem.
a somewhat less ambitious day
May. 12th, 2026 07:13 pmthe_shoshannaa less physically but more emotionally exhausting day
We started the day with a non-overwhelming breakfast! Just a bunch of veggies sauteed up together, no eggs no bacon no beans no toast (but yes coffee, and her coffee could punch Superman through a wall). We were delighted! Also, when we asked where we could find a laundromat to wash some clothes, she let us use her machine. So Geoff put a load through and hung it to dry before we left for the day; I had surreptitiously been doing some sink laundry and also I don't sweat the way he does, but I too am glad to have been able to properly wash some things. (Still gotta sink-wash a bra this evening, though; I've had too many destroyed by machines to trust one I don't know.)Then we headed out to the bus station to catch a bus to the Hamptonne Country Life Museum https://www.jerseyheritage.org/visit/places-to-visit/hamptonne-country-life-museum/ . This was one of the things I specifically wanted to see while we're here, but sadly I was a bit disappointed. There was no living-history reenactor guide working today (the guy at the entry selling tickets said she would have been there but she had to go to a funeral, so I'm not going to complain), and the guide who took us around spent more time talking about what it was like to work there, and less about what it would have been like to live there in the various eras it represented (13th, 17th, and 19th centuries), than I was hoping for. (Honestly, a good episode of Historical Farm would have given me more -- thanks for putting me on to that show,
dorinda!) Still, it was interesting to poke around and look at things, and Geoff enjoyed it more than I did, which was good because I was the one who really wanted to go and if he'd been really disappointed I'd probably have felt guilty.We did see a nineteenth-century apple crusher (which I immediately recognized thanks to Historical Farms!) and got to taste some of the cider they produce there. It was just fermented juice, no added sugar or rum or any of the other things that might be added to improve the taste, and it was like drinking paint thinner, I couldn't even finish my small cup. The guide said it was probably about 5% alcohol, but it felt stronger. So maybe it's a good thing I couldn't finish it!
Interestingly, the average age of the people visiting the museum seemed to hover around 70 that day. "School must be in session," I said to myself.
We finished up in the cafe, where we split an unexciting packaged sausage roll and a jacket potato with tuna mayo and sweetcorn. I don't know if the potato was a local Jersey potato, but it at least was very good! This whole concept of baked potatoes with stuff on them was something entirely unknown to me until a visit to Edinburgh years ago, when we got a number of out-and-about meals from a jacket potato shop that would put any of dozens of salads or sauces or meats or whatnots on them; I remember having to work hard to keep them from also plopping a giant knob of butter inside the potato as a matter of course. I mean, a buttered baked potato is delicious, but if you're topping your potato with a tomato-cucumber salad tossed in a vinaigrette, two tablespoons of butter really does not improve the experience. Anyway, I always think of that place when I have a jacket potato topped with something unusual to me, such as, for instance, tuna mayo with sweetcorn.
The bus we took to the museum was the same line we took home yesterday afternoon and it had the electronic announcement screen, but it wasn't on so I had to track us with my phone again to know when to get off. Ah, well. We had a nice five-minute walk through houses and farms from the bus stop to the museum site, and when we left to go back to the bus stop, the guy in the ticket office told us that if, once we got to the street the bus ran down, we went the other way from the bus stop we would come to an interesting old dovecote. We did walk that way for a bit, but didn't see anything promising, so we turned around and went up to the bus stop.
Rather than taking it all the way back into the capital city, though, we went only three stops (again tracking progress on my phone, for lack of any non-tech way to know where we were or which stop was ours), got off, and walked about fifteen minutes through more houses and potato fields and mildly wooded areas to get to the Jersey War Tunnels https://www.jerseywartunnels.com/.
The occupying German armed forces had this big tunnel complex built, largely but not entirely by forced labor and slave labor, originally as an ammunition store and barracks, later as a potential hospital in case of an Allied assault on the island(s). Now it's been turned into a really excellent museum of the occupation. When we bought our admission tickets we were also given replica ID cards, establishing each of us as an actual Jerseyite whose story we could discover as we went through the exhibits. (I was given the identity of a middle-aged Jewish woman who, when she was arrested a few years into the occupation, managed to escape her guards and flee to someone who hid her until the war ended.)
We made our way through the tunnels, each of which has been set up as a gallery documenting a different aspect of the occupation or part of the war, in chronological order: from the first decision that the islands wouldn't be defended, to the arrival of the Nazi forces, the gradual tightening of restrictions and rations, various people's attempts at resistance, escape, and sometimes collaboration, the arrival of a Red Cross aid ship just as the food situation got desperate, the experience of watching D-Day (remember, you can see France from here!) while still not being freed and while the local German commander was maintaining he would hold fast, until the final surrender and the arrival of the UK troops who raised the Union Jack again, as we saw reenacted a few days ago.
One particularly effective device was life-size human figures with video screens for their heads showing recordings of actors, so that you could imagine actually meeting and talking to the person who was depicted speaking to you. Here's a German soldier, fluent in English, who has bought your child an ice cream; do you let your child take it? Here's another who wants to hire you to do his washing, and you need money desperately; do you take the job? Here's a farm woman talking about food rationing, and how lucky her family is to have some livestock and chickens -- but of course the German authorities closely watch everything, including recording every piglet born, and god help you if you're caught hiding one. Here's a starving Russian slave worker who has escaped his barracks and stolen some carrots from your field; what do you do?
One informational signboard talked about collaborators, including women who went with German soldiers. It did acknowledge that, aside from the fact that the soldiers might be young, handsome, and -- at least in the early years -- friendly and congenial, being friendly with them might also mean extra food and security for the woman (and her family), but no explicit link was drawn between that signboard (which also explained the derogatory term "jerrybags" for such women) and a later one that told the story of a young woman who was "assaulted" (details unspecified but clearly sexual) by a German soldier while she was serving him in a restaurant, slapped him, and was promptly shipped to a German prison camp, where she died. Nor was a comparison made between "jerrybags" and the local workers who took jobs with the occupying forces to help build the tunnel complex. It all reminded me of the way that women's sexual purity so often stands in for and symbolizes all kinds of morality. Why is a woman who accedes to a soldier's demands and blandishments more of a collaborator than a man who takes a job furthering the enemy's projects?
On another note: as we approached the end of the war, plaques on the wall announced various milestones. I was surprised at the strength of my desire to spit upon seeing the one marking Hitler's suicide.
Anyway, the whole thing was A Lot, and very well done.
Eventually we emerged from underground and caught the bus home again. Once again we stopped on our way home from the bus station for an early dinner, rather than go home and then have to leave again; we found a nice sort of Spanish-Asian fusion place on one of the squares we walked through that had pleasant outdoor seating. (For COVID-cautious reasons we prefer to eat outside when we can; we're also masking on the buses and in other indoor public spaces. We haven't seen a single other person masking, but no one seems to give us the stink-eye about it, except possibly for one person on the bus the other day who seemed not to want to sit next to me.) Geoff had delicious lasagna that came with yet more delicious chips, and I, having not yet had any seafood other than some salmon at the arts centre cafe, had a sizzling plate of scallops and veggies in a vaguely oyster-sauce kind of sauce? Also a nice big glass of merlot, and Geoff had a pint of a Spanish beer called Madri, which he liked but I did not care for. And then back to the guesthouse and blogging!
One thing that has both startled and amused me is that several people (including the ticket guy at the Hamptonne museum), on hearing that we're planning to go from Jersey to spend ten days in Guernsey, have reacted with "Ten days on Guernsey?" in a very what-the-hell-would-you-do-that-for? tone of voice. I'm assuming that this is an expression of inter-island rivalry and not a real indication that we'll be bored out of our minds 😂 I mean, we did accumulate a list of things we might want to see there, and hikes we might want to do, and also we'll probably take a day trip to Herm.
But before then we still have three days here on Jersey to fill! It's likely to rain tomorrow and Thursday, so maybe we won't do another big hike, but we would like to see the Jersey Zoo...but for now, it's oh-so-exciting hand laundry for me, and curling up with some internet.
Birdfeeding
May. 12th, 2026 01:44 pmysabetwordsmithToday is mostly sunny and warm.
I fed the birds. I've seen a small mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a grackle, and a gray catbird.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I planted a white dogwood in the forest garden. I put a jug over it and mulched around it.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I covered and mulched around a previously planted persimmon seedling.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I raked the westernmost of the north-south strips through the prairie garden which will get sown with seeds.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I planted a persimmon tree along the north edge of the forest garden, covered and mulched it.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I raked the middle of the north-south strips through the prairie garden which will also get sown with seeds. The easternmost one is meant to be the middle path and kept mowed, although I will also sow that with grass and clover seed rather than wildflowers or native prairie grasses.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I raked the long east-west strip where the Monarch Butterfly Seed Mix will go. This also contains flowers that bees love, and that strip runs near the bee tree. :D
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I did more work around the patio.
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I fed the birds. I've seen a small mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a grackle, and a gray catbird.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I planted a white dogwood in the forest garden. I put a jug over it and mulched around it.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I covered and mulched around a previously planted persimmon seedling.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I raked the westernmost of the north-south strips through the prairie garden which will get sown with seeds.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I planted a persimmon tree along the north edge of the forest garden, covered and mulched it.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I raked the middle of the north-south strips through the prairie garden which will also get sown with seeds. The easternmost one is meant to be the middle path and kept mowed, although I will also sow that with grass and clover seed rather than wildflowers or native prairie grasses.
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I raked the long east-west strip where the Monarch Butterfly Seed Mix will go. This also contains flowers that bees love, and that strip runs near the bee tree. :D
EDIT 5/12/26 -- I did more work around the patio.
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Politics
May. 12th, 2026 12:04 pmysabetwordsmithContemporary Dual States: Israel, US, Russia, China, Turkey, etc.
As Fraenkel explained it, a lawless dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary legal system of rules, procedures, and precedents. To the contrary, that system—which he called the “normative state”—remains in place while dictatorial power spreads across society. What happens, Fraenkel explained, is insidious. Rather than completely eliminating the normative state, the Nazi regime slowly created a parallel zone in which “unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees” reigned freely. In this domain, which Fraenkel called the “prerogative state,” ordinary law didn’t apply.
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As Fraenkel explained it, a lawless dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary legal system of rules, procedures, and precedents. To the contrary, that system—which he called the “normative state”—remains in place while dictatorial power spreads across society. What happens, Fraenkel explained, is insidious. Rather than completely eliminating the normative state, the Nazi regime slowly created a parallel zone in which “unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees” reigned freely. In this domain, which Fraenkel called the “prerogative state,” ordinary law didn’t apply.
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In which Ferret has sports feelings
May. 12th, 2026 11:48 amseekingferretI've been a Knicks fan for 35 years and this past two weeks has been the best I have ever seen the Knicks play. They are better by far than '94 and '99. They're also astoundingly more likeable than the '94 or '99 Knicks. It's so much nicer to cheer for Jalen Brunson than it was to cheer for Latrell Sprewell.
The Hart-Bridges-Brunson Nova Knicks thing is adorable, the sheer joy of them getting to hang out again with their college buddies is one of the fun dynamics of this team and certainly contributes to team chemistry.
And KAT, especially Point God KAT that we are seeing in the playoffs, is so much fun. The problem with KAT has always been that he's so talented that sometimes he loses interest and coasts, but he is so fun to watch when he tries his hardest and I have never seen him trying harder than he is trying right now. He fights for every rebound, he's blocking shots like he was Willie Cauley-Stein, and when he drives from the three point line it's like a freight train. And yet even better than any of that is when he stands at the middle of the arc and orchestrates the offense like an air traffic controller. And he's doing it with all of his goofy KAT energy intact. What a delightfully silly man.
I haven't even said anything about OG, who a surprising amount of the time is the best Knick in the floor, a defensive wizard who has discovered how to score at will.
And OG's injury aside, the greatest delight of this postseason is how well rested everyone is. It was so miserable last season watching Thibs grind his starters into powder. Were there triumphs, yes, but the human cost was too high. With help from Mitchell Robinson, Deuce McBride, Landry Shamet, Jordan Clarkson, and even a bit of Tyler Kolek and Jeremy Sochan, the starters are getting to take a break, and the result is obvious, what everyone was screaming about last year. If you're well rested, you don't get hurt as much and you can play with more energy and have more fun. DUH, Thibs And now the Knicks get a full week off before the Eastern Conference Finals while Detroit and Cleveland slug it out.
I'm very nervous nonetheless about Detroit, who has dominated us in the regular season even though they look like they're running out of gas now. But maybe we don't need to face them at all, if they can't get passed the Cavs. And right now the Knicks look like they can beat anybody, and I cannot remember ever having that feeling. It feels so good.
The Hart-Bridges-Brunson Nova Knicks thing is adorable, the sheer joy of them getting to hang out again with their college buddies is one of the fun dynamics of this team and certainly contributes to team chemistry.
And KAT, especially Point God KAT that we are seeing in the playoffs, is so much fun. The problem with KAT has always been that he's so talented that sometimes he loses interest and coasts, but he is so fun to watch when he tries his hardest and I have never seen him trying harder than he is trying right now. He fights for every rebound, he's blocking shots like he was Willie Cauley-Stein, and when he drives from the three point line it's like a freight train. And yet even better than any of that is when he stands at the middle of the arc and orchestrates the offense like an air traffic controller. And he's doing it with all of his goofy KAT energy intact. What a delightfully silly man.
I haven't even said anything about OG, who a surprising amount of the time is the best Knick in the floor, a defensive wizard who has discovered how to score at will.
And OG's injury aside, the greatest delight of this postseason is how well rested everyone is. It was so miserable last season watching Thibs grind his starters into powder. Were there triumphs, yes, but the human cost was too high. With help from Mitchell Robinson, Deuce McBride, Landry Shamet, Jordan Clarkson, and even a bit of Tyler Kolek and Jeremy Sochan, the starters are getting to take a break, and the result is obvious, what everyone was screaming about last year. If you're well rested, you don't get hurt as much and you can play with more energy and have more fun. DUH, Thibs And now the Knicks get a full week off before the Eastern Conference Finals while Detroit and Cleveland slug it out.
I'm very nervous nonetheless about Detroit, who has dominated us in the regular season even though they look like they're running out of gas now. But maybe we don't need to face them at all, if they can't get passed the Cavs. And right now the Knicks look like they can beat anybody, and I cannot remember ever having that feeling. It feels so good.
One of those days
May. 12th, 2026 04:34 pmdickinsonsI'm having some issues at work and feeling really anxious about it. It's not even that complicated, truly, but I'm having to go back to sign some certificates again after realising there were mistakes in them and, since someone drives me there because I can't drive, I not only feel bad about the mistakes but also about being a burden. At the same time, I still have my driving lessons and my German exams start soon, so I'm feeling anxious and can't concentrate well, and then I get more anxious because it's affecting my performance at the other things...
Anyway, I just want this week to be over. Maybe by Friday I'll feel better. Sorry for the unanswered comments, I'll get back to you guys!
Anyway, I just want this week to be over. Maybe by Friday I'll feel better. Sorry for the unanswered comments, I'll get back to you guys!
Starsky & Hutch: Fanfiction: Live!
May. 12th, 2026 04:20 pmlucy_roman posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Live!
Fandom: Starsky & Hutch
Rating: Mature
Length: 150 words
Content notes: set during the season 3 episode The Plague
Summary: Starsky is watching Hutch
( Live! )
Fandom: Starsky & Hutch
Rating: Mature
Length: 150 words
Content notes: set during the season 3 episode The Plague
Summary: Starsky is watching Hutch
( Live! )
Reminder: FKFicFest '26 prompts are due by EOD Saturday, May 16
May. 12th, 2026 07:42 ambrightknightie posting in fkficfestPrompting for fkficfest 2026 is open through this Saturday, May 16. We have 6 prompts so far. Every community member is invited to share 1 prompt. (Prompting is not a commitment to play.)
To submit your prompt, visit the prompts post.
Reminder: No verbatim re-runs of prompts from past years. We may re-write, re-imagine, and re-invent a previous prompt. Shiny new prompts are outstanding.
Examples: To help with brainstorming, here's a big bunch of prompt nominees from past years: ( Long list )
Questions? Suggestions? Please share on this post! Prompts? Please share on the prompts post.
fkficfest 2026 is open through this Saturday, May 16. We have 6 prompts so far. Every community member is invited to share 1 prompt. (Prompting is not a commitment to play.)To submit your prompt, visit the prompts post.
Reminder: No verbatim re-runs of prompts from past years. We may re-write, re-imagine, and re-invent a previous prompt. Shiny new prompts are outstanding.
Examples: To help with brainstorming, here's a big bunch of prompt nominees from past years: ( Long list )
Questions? Suggestions? Please share on this post! Prompts? Please share on the prompts post.
MerMay The Twelfth
May. 12th, 2026 09:46 pmleecetheartist posting in drawesomeTitle: Ocean Dancer
Artist: leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: n/a
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Content Notes:
This MerMay - number 12, was drawn in the cardiologist's waiting room while
rdm had his tests. It's drawn with the beautiful Azure Kingfisher ink I've used before this MerMay, it's in a Lamy Demonstrator. 
More ballet
May. 12th, 2026 09:35 amseekingferretSpring Experience by Boston Ballet
After choreographed by Lia Cirio, music by Lera Auerbach
This didn't really land for us. Immediately afterward we were speculating that maybe we just didn't have an eye yet for non-narrative ballet, but the next two pieces belied that theory, so all I can say is that this didn't land for us. The set consisted of a large white structure of curves, somewhat resembling a miniature Gehry building, but the dancers didn't really interact with it. I think there was some fusion of classical ballet and modern dance vocabulary, but it didn't spark anything for me.
Herman Schmerman choreographed by William Forsythe, music by Thom Willems
On the other hand, this landed. An energetic duet (pas de deux?) followed by a section for 5 dancers, to an interesting miminalist electronic score. I loved the way the dancers moved to the music and how they played off each other, I loved the bits of humor sprinkled throughout. Also the asymmetries of the 5 dancers played out in really satisfying ways. My girlfriend said it seemed like they were having fun out there above all else.
Dances at a Gathering choreographed by Jerome Robbins, music by Chopin
Seeing this was the reasonchestnut_pod recommended we go to this performance and it didn't disappoint.
Ten dancers each in distinctive colored outfits perform in a series of smaller ensemble dances, mixing and matching relationships, to a sequence of short Chopin piano pieces. The dancing was beautiful, graceful and physical and surprising. But it was really the combinatorics that were striking, the way the dancers mixed and mingled in different interactions, playing out their personalities by way of the dance. It was an utterly enchanting experience.
After choreographed by Lia Cirio, music by Lera Auerbach
This didn't really land for us. Immediately afterward we were speculating that maybe we just didn't have an eye yet for non-narrative ballet, but the next two pieces belied that theory, so all I can say is that this didn't land for us. The set consisted of a large white structure of curves, somewhat resembling a miniature Gehry building, but the dancers didn't really interact with it. I think there was some fusion of classical ballet and modern dance vocabulary, but it didn't spark anything for me.
Herman Schmerman choreographed by William Forsythe, music by Thom Willems
On the other hand, this landed. An energetic duet (pas de deux?) followed by a section for 5 dancers, to an interesting miminalist electronic score. I loved the way the dancers moved to the music and how they played off each other, I loved the bits of humor sprinkled throughout. Also the asymmetries of the 5 dancers played out in really satisfying ways. My girlfriend said it seemed like they were having fun out there above all else.
Dances at a Gathering choreographed by Jerome Robbins, music by Chopin
Seeing this was the reason
chestnut_pod recommended we go to this performance and it didn't disappoint. Ten dancers each in distinctive colored outfits perform in a series of smaller ensemble dances, mixing and matching relationships, to a sequence of short Chopin piano pieces. The dancing was beautiful, graceful and physical and surprising. But it was really the combinatorics that were striking, the way the dancers mixed and mingled in different interactions, playing out their personalities by way of the dance. It was an utterly enchanting experience.
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Linguistics
May. 12th, 2026 02:28 amysabetwordsmithThis year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about reading as a way of becoming an expert in a given subject. Read Part 1: Introduction to Becoming an Expert, Part 2: Architecture, Part 3: Dance, Part 4: Music, Part 5: Painting, Part 6: Poetry, Part 7: Sculpture, Part 8: Conflict Resolution, Part 9: Cooking, Part 10: Coping Skills, Part 11: Gardening, Part 12: Relationship Skills, Part 13: Repairing, Part 14: Survival Skills, Part 15: Archaeology, Part 16: Biology, Part 17: Chemistry.
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Part 18: Linguistics
Linguistics is the science of studying language, with related branches into neuroscience (how the brain processes language), anthropology (language as a medium of culture), literature (storytelling), and so forth. Aspects include famous people, historical linguistics, language acquisition, language revitalization, psycholinguistics, and others. Xenolinguistics is the study of alien and/or invented languages. Here on Dreamwidth, check out1word1day, conlang, first_nations_freaks, language_learning, linguaphiles, science, scienceworld.
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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Part 18: Linguistics
Linguistics is the science of studying language, with related branches into neuroscience (how the brain processes language), anthropology (language as a medium of culture), literature (storytelling), and so forth. Aspects include famous people, historical linguistics, language acquisition, language revitalization, psycholinguistics, and others. Xenolinguistics is the study of alien and/or invented languages. Here on Dreamwidth, check out
1word1day, conlang, first_nations_freaks, language_learning, linguaphiles, science, scienceworld.( Read more... )