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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
my ASS degree |
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| PETRAN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
I'm not that clueless Lira. The part about analyzing and comparing languages was roughly clear to me, what I'm missing is what useful things can be done with he results. Cause if the results are obtained solely for the love of wisdom then it's... well, philosophy. :p |
You know that science is divided into "basic" and "applied" right? And that the biggest contributions and discoveries are from "basic" science (Newton's law, relativity, evolution, genetics, tectonic theory, brain theory etc. No the army haven't paid all these scientists). I can't see how "evolution" , "string theory", or "cosmology" can be applied (at least due to 2500 or something :p ). Hell, they even made the supra-expensive LHC to search for purely "theoretical" stuff (unless you are one of those crackpots who believe LHC is for making secret super plasma weapons lol). "Basic science" is not philosophy because they have different methods, but the subject-matter is exactly the same, yes. Philosophy can be very difficult and challenging though. Its pure reasoning so it is difficult. Read the originals by Aristotle, Hume or Whitehead.
Linguistics is a very varied and complicated field. You can find experimental psycholinguistics (Steven Pinker hell yeah. Read the "language instinct"), neurolinguistics, computational, social etc. My field is neuropsychology and some people study left-hemisphere stroke patients ("aphasics") to discover the neural underpinnings of language. I can tell you that it is a very complicated and challenging field, since brain function and the abstract organization of language are complex on their own (imagine trying to connect them). The study of language is very intriguing and of very high importance since this is what makes us human. ;) |
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| CorneliusCB21T |
During the 1950s there were great advancements in the field of high-level computer languages; based on linguistics. Noam Chomsky's attempts to understand the underlying principles by means of which humans beings generate speech led him to develop a theory of formal languages, which he defined using sets of abstract rules, called 'grammars', of varying levels of complexity. Chomsky's theory was and has been of great utility in the analysis and construction of computer languages: regular languages and context-free languages.
Regular languages, which are defined by regular expressions, are used extensively for matching patterns within text (as in word processing or internet searches) and for lexical analysis in computer language compilers. They are part of sophisticated text editors and a number of UNIX utilitilies, and they are also used in transforming XML documents. Each context-free grammar turns out to be equivalent to a type of automaton called push-down automaton, and each regular expression turns out to be equivalent to a type of automaton called finite-state automaton. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by PETRAN
Philosophy can be very difficult and challenging though. Its pure reasoning so it is difficult. Read the originals by Aristotle, Hume or Whitehead. |
Hey mate, long time no see! And, judging by your post, you've never seen Meat either: he's the resident Unphilosopher :p |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by D-res
Anyone learn Chinese? It seems like a good choice but I'm put off by learning an entirely new alphabet. I was going to take first semester Latin but it's at 9am. :p |
i learned hangul by riding the subway...i've been taking some mandarin and it is ummmm much harder than korean. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay
i learned hangul by riding the subway...i've been taking some mandarin and it is ummmm much harder than korean. |
You can't really compare Hangul with Hanzi/Kanji.
Hangul is, by far, the most awesome writing system ever devised by humanity: It's so simple and symbolic it's not hard to remember what stands for what sound. Sure, the vowels are a bit random, but the consonants are pretty spot on (such as the ㄱ representing the back of the tongue, ㅁ representing the mouth and ㄴ representing the front of the tongue).
As for Hanzi/Kanji, their semantic content is really nice and helpful... but there are far more ideograms in these languages than there are hangul symbols in Korean, as they represent entirely different things. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
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haha yeah.. I do it on purpose lol :p |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
You can't really compare Hangul with Hanzi/Kanji.
Hangul is, by far, the most awesome writing system ever devised by humanity: It's so simple and symbolic it's not hard to remember what stands for what sound. Sure, the vowels are a bit random, but the consonants are pretty spot on (such as the ㄱ representing the back of the tongue, ㅁ representing the mouth and ㄴ representing the front of the tongue).
As for Hanzi/Kanji, their semantic content is really nice and helpful... but there are far more ideograms in these languages than there are hangul symbols in Korean, as they represent entirely different things. |
trust me i know. those gooks are verbal ninjas...a slight change of tone means something completely different. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay
trust me i know. those gooks are verbal ninjas |
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| quote: | Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay
a slight change of tone means something completely different. |
I bet they do it just to annoy foreigners :p
I can't say I've ever mastered the sounds of Korean... |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
oh i haven't mastered the sounds either, i just can read it well and understand.
for instance dong means neighborhood in korean...it also means if you pronounce it the wrong way, so once in awhile i would ask for directions and get pointed in the direction of the nearest bathroom:p |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
the worst part is, that it is true.:p
another thing that sucks is that they name their subway stations so similarly sometimes, that you better ing be careful or the cab driver will take you very far from where you want to be:p |
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