[ExI] it's the yoga! was: RE: The Doomsday Clock

[William Flynn Wallace]

I listened to the rhythmic speech rapper JayZ uttered at a political
campaign event, had very little idea what he was going on about.  It wasn’t
much like Karen Carpenter and John Denver.



spike

Or Billy Joel.  There is some classical music I know that would sound just
as good if the notes were somewhat different.  The key to those pieces is
the rhythm - that's what makes it interesting.  (Prokofieff, if you are
interested)

If you don't have anything to say, say it with a smile and a rhythm.

If there were a universal language (that is to say, planetary - universal
is a bit presumptuous, isn't it?),  it would not last long.  Regional
variations would occur, new words would be coined, accents making spelling
difficult, and lots more.  It's only constant communication that make
American and British English similar.  It does not take long.  Read
Canterbury Tales in the original lately?

As for the Indians, with whom was it more important to communicate with,
your fellow tribesmen, or the white guys who had all these neat things you
wanted, like jobs.  The young Indians saw where the future lay and thought
their Indian language was old hat, and abandoned it, like tlingit.

bill w

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:05 AM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:23 PM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> >>…What happens to old languages when we need all the words and
> grammatical constructs to describe new technology?  Navajo doesn’t have
> words for cars, cell phones, computers, all the cryptic technology stuff we
> have now.  How do these original languages manage?
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> >…Right, that's why we had to abandon English when we got all of that new
> tech. :-) Obviously, we came up with new words.
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> Oh is that what caused us to abandon English?  I thought it was rap.  A
> local teen hangout where I go for excellent authentic Mexican burritos once
> a week (takeout) plays rap.  I assume it is in English or some dialect
> loosely based on English, but I can seldom understand a bit of it.  I
> understand some individual words, but the concepts are not part of my word
> (I assume rap has concepts.)
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> I listened to the rhythmic speech rapper JayZ uttered at a political
> campaign event, had very little idea what he was going on about.  It wasn’t
> much like Karen Carpenter and John Denver.
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> spike
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