The Linguistics Iceberg Explained



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Explaining the story behind the most interesting linguistic theories, artifacts, and languages.

This completes the cognitive science iceberg trilogy alongside my philosophy and psychology icebergs.

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21 thoughts on “The Linguistics Iceberg Explained”

  1. I think to hampers one to speak your own language in school is extremely hard to accept.
    It's the same as the low and high prestige fenomenon which have happened and still happens today in many countries.

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  2. We don't live in tribe anymore. So if your mind just cares about your relatives, it's time to move on.

    If there are many people complaining about racism. If many people complains about sexual prejudice or racial prejudice against Asian English people. It's not only one person, it's the whole society of one country. It's a real problem.

    If we don't learn to put on someones' shoes, your community is not well adapted.
    Or you may choose to live in your tribe and don't get many good opportunities abroad.

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  3. 1:07:44 turkish has this as well! "wolf" actually is "börü" in old turkish but turks were (and still kinda are) very superstitious, so they decided to call the animal by the name of another tiny and harmless animal: "kurt". the animal that we're referring to here is worm/maggot. we are still calling wolves "kurt" to this day lol

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  4. Dude, I think your admiration of Chomsky's work in linguistics has bled over into a fandom of Chomsky's ideology/world view… using AAV (which literally came about due to historic oppression in the United states) as some sort of apologetic yardstick for critical thinking measurement is some wild mental gymnastics. So is the romanticization of that group of modern technologically-primitive people that never developed a sophisticated numeric/counting system…lol like what? That's a massive hinderence to a society. Viewing it in any other way is at best condescending and at worst, it's delusional.

    I don't know if you're intentionally gaslighting or if you're truly this blissfully naive.

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  5. Also, the sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is only meaningless if you're interpretating each word in a mono literal sense. The whole "buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo…" sentence proves this…

    Try to have a consistent linguistic evaluation/critique system.

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  6. Lol "Joe Rogan vaguely scientific sounding" and at the same time "He be working out" is a positive measurement for critical thinking skills 😆

    Lol this vid is ideologically corrupted…

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  7. Chomsky became a linguistic expert and pioneer so he could smuggle in Marxist ideas. Which, ya know, props to him bc that's the most arduous and effective way to do it. Lazy Marxists just smuggled the ideas in w/ postmodernism.

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  8. The whistling language also exist in the atlas mountains of Morocco. They intonate those whistles to sound like amazigh, the native's language. Natives of the Canary islands were also Amazigh.

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