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  1. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Here is a study that suggests listening to music helps in distinguishing vocalizations.
    How Does Musical Training Improve Language Skills?
    Piano lessons improve kids' processing of pitch and speech, a new study finds.
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...does-musical-training-improve-language-skills
     
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    “You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world, and as you walk through those doors today, you will only have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.”
    ― Jim Carrey

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    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
    ~~ Isaac Asimov, Newsweek: “A Cult of Ignorance” January 21, 1980
     
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    one caveat
    The study was of mandarin speaking children
    Mandarin is widely believed to be one of the most musical of all languages
    Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken tonal language, Mandarin Chinese, tones are distinguished by their distinctive shape, known as contour, with each tone having a different internal pattern of rising and falling pitch. Many words, especially monosyllabic ones, are differentiated solely by tone---

    one wonders if this would hold true for less tonal languages

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    That being "said"
    early development may be of paramount importance
    during the middle ages
    a knight opined @: Give me a boy of seven, and I will make of him a knight----after age 11, never.
    and
    One of the religious orders claimed, give us a boy of seven and we will give you a man who cannot be broken.

    bf skinner was of a like mind.
     
  8. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    How about birds?

    Wolves?
     
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    “I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.”
    ― David Lynch

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    "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."--Carl Jung
     
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    It has been said that language consists mostly of series of grunts and clicks.

    An Interactive Map of the 2,000+ Sounds Humans Use to Communicate Without Words: Grunts, Sobs, Sighs, Laughs & More

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    http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/...-humans-use-to-communicate-without-words.html
     
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    Grunts of approval and affection;
     
  13. sculptor Valued Senior Member

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    easily misunderstood
    caveat
    In highschool I had a friend who was a bit on the wild side. He always had alcohol, and sold poloride pictures of his sister's vaginal lips---for %5.00
    anyway
    poor michael was wandering down the road one night(most likely dead drunk) when he was struck by the front end of a car driven by a local hot rodder
    at 80 miles per hour? well, that was the end of michael--closed casket funeral
    the funeral home was on the other side of the high school parking lot, and we were given permission to attend.
    An ignorant preacher officiated.
    He obviously knew nothing of michael, but that ignorance didn't seem to slow him down none.
    Ok as the ceremony dragged on, the preacher got more and more ridiculous,
    and then
    when he said
    "God has taken one of his little angels home"
    I lost it
    I began to guffaw
    Laughing hysterically during a funeral didn't seem to be a good idea
    so
    I clapped my hand over my mouth to contain the laughter, and stumbled out the back of the funeral home
    Curiously
    some of the young ladies in attendance
    assumed that I was sobbing inconsolably
    ok
    for several days after, they would stop me in the hallway and hug me in an attempt to console me

    Not a bad parting gift from Michael Alsing
    May he rest in peace.
     
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    "No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine " -- William Blum, former US State Department employee
     
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    “There's a big overlap between conspiracy theorists, racists, gun nuts, doomsday preppers, fans of the rapture and poor white Republicans. They all have one thing in common: They feel like the oppressed underdogs.”
    ― Oliver Markus Malloy
     
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    People love conspiracy theories.
    Neil Armstrong:
     
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    Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
    Marie Curie:
     
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    “The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. ”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
     
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    “Doctors are those who prescribe medicines, of which they know little, to cure diseases, of which they know less, to human beings, of whom they know NOTHING.: -Voltaire
     
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    "Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
     
  21. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

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    im not ready to be accountable for being king of the world right now
    give me all the money first while i decide how i feel about it
     
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    "Suffering is but a single tiny island in a endless ocean of time and happiness."-Me
     
  23. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

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    that's actually not true because i said so
     

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