i donāt know why but iām really amused by the winner of some ānew kanjiā contest:
compare with the real kanji
åŗ§ (seat/gathering), but the twoĀ äŗŗ (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within theĀ å (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making thisĀ āsocial distance(d seating/gathering)ā
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That comes in handy just when I have to submit the first chapter in few weeks! (I'm writing on Machine Learning in Text Classification.)
A paper-writing tip from my thesis director:
Every time you are reading materials and you come across an important concept, write it down in flashcard. Give the concept a title, write who said it, and where to find it later (this is also a good way of practicing citation).
Once you have a lot of your materials read you can spread them all throughout your room like a crazy person (which feels amazing) and start creating your own narrative, organizing it in your own unique way. This way, you might even land on a new concept!
Tell me about the paper you're writing! These flashcards are for a paper on Retributivist Punishment Theory (Criminal Law) š«
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This isnāt just advice for uni students, but for anybody, Iāve just decided to tackle us uni students in general, because our days are not as structured anymore and with our lectures here at 11AM on one day and at 3PM on the other, itās very hard to keep each and every day the same. Generally, though, this can be used for anybody whoās looking for some structure in their life.
Ā Why?
Because it gives you an idea of what you are spending your time on. With a solid and good schedule, there should be less time for procrastination. Besides that, a sense of control gives many people comfort, especially people who struggle mentally.
Where to start:
Write down your schedule. Work, weekly appointments, lectures, classes. All those things that are āset in stoneā and that you cannot control. This is going to be the base you build around. I suggest making a table, preferably on a piece of paper (you can transfer it into a digital version when youāre done and have everything figured out) with all days of the week and hours. I personally used 7AM ā 11PM.
Set your wake up and bed times. The most important ones. You should make these all the same. Maybe give yourself an extra hour of a lie in on Saturday and Sunday, but you should try and not confuse your biological clock too much. Soon, it will become easier to get up early. Also make sure you are getting enough hours of sleep. As a young adult of around 20, you should be getting 6-9 hours of sleep. If you are younger, it should be more than that.
Write up your daily tasks that you would like to perform every day. Make sure you include all those things you keep forgetting, self-care items, daily reading, journal writing, studying, etc. Be realistic, however. Start out small with just a few things, donāt overwhelm yourself and later, you can start adding more items.
Then do the same for weekly tasks. These include doing readings for particular classes, clean ups, exercise, meet-ups, etc.
Donāt forget meals! Especially if you are busy, make sure there is room for food in your plan! Make sure that if you have an especially full day the next day, think of some time to prepare the food the night before. Planning out your meals may also make you think about what you eat more. (Also, I can write something about nutrition on request!)
Donāt forget free time either. Free time is important and a free day is something you could benefit from. Whether it is resting or catching up on your studies or time for arts and crafts.
Now play a nice game of Tetris and assign a time slot to each of those activities. Donāt forget to just leave some time off. Whether thatās for finishing a task, being lazy or just anything. Use your routine to give your life a structure, not governĀ it completely.
How to implement these and make sure they work?
There are for sure going to be some you struggle with. Set phone alarms. Set them for every five minutes. Set them until they annoy you. Until itās so annoying it makes you do the task you donāt want to do.
I followed these steps to make my own routine for my new semester and I had something similar, but not as elaborate last semester. The one for this semester isnāt done yet since I still need one additional module and my fixed working times. But after that, I may post my routine on here and then some follow ups as well, just to see how well itās going. Same goes for you, tag me (ravenclawhard) if you are going to use these tips. Iād love to know!
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Thatās very nice! Iām using Trello in a group engineering project and we have a similar system, but instead of Blocked we have Ready + In Review for when someone has to check it out first before calling it Done.
Great idea with the labels, itās surely a better system! (And how did you do these little patterns? :D)
Dev Log 2: Setting up Trello
Iāve used trello a couple of times in the past and I really liked it so I decided to use it for this too. I looked at a bunch of templates that could help me manage a project like this. I settled on a modified version of the project management template with labels I saw in another template (I canāt remember which one). Hereās how I set it up:
I have 5 lists:
Resources
To Do
In Progress
Blocked and
Done
I group the resources I need (tutorials, guides, instructions, references etc) into cards. That way I can link the resources card to the relevant task card. Some resources might be useful in multiple cards so instead of having to copy the same links into each card I just have to link one card for easy access. To Do, In progress and Done are pretty self explanatory. Blocked is for tasks that are almost done, but for some reason canāt be finished right now. It could be because theyāre waiting on something else to be done, or Iām waiting for some feedback from friends etc.
The labels Iām using are:
It Would be Nice
Less Important
Important and
Most Important
Iāve previously used high, medium and low priority and had a very hard time assigning them, but with this new system itās much easier for me. (Words matter, who knew ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ )
It took a while to fill it out with tasks and Iām still adding things or breaking tasks down into smaller ones, but I love it. I love the flexibility.
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As most people are working and studying from home right now, I wanted to share some concrete, implementable ways you can help yourself feel better. Though I believe productivity and quantity of work done (or lack thereof) doesnāt/shouldnāt translate into your self-worth and how you view yourself, when you get work done, you actually do feel better in your own body.Ā
By the way, itās the first time Iām formatting a tips/guide post like this, so I apologize that I couldnāt be more concise.
Iāve spoken to a licensed professional counsellor as well as to some professionals who have been working from home for a long time, and some of the advice above is from them. Iām also sharing from my own experience as someone who used to be very productive and an (ex-)overachiever, and still attach a lot of my self-worth to grades and other tangible accomplishments. I hope these slides can help you. In case itās hard to read, Iāve included it (reworded) in text form if youād like to read more.Ā
Keep reading
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Mutual Intelligibility Resource Guides for teaching or self-teaching the International Phonetic Alphabet
Weāve made two guides to the teaching resources available for the International Phonetic Alphabet as part of the Mutual Intelligibility project.Ā
IPA Charts
Interactive IPA Chart
A free, web-based IPA chart. Each symbol is clickable and plays the corresponding phoneme. Good for an introduction to IPA or phonology in general.
IPA Lab Audio Illustrations
A far more detailed and complete IPA chart showing more phonemes and diacritics with detailed descriptions at the bottom of the screen for each symbol you click on. This would be good for a more complete and technical look at phonology and the IPA.
OSU Interactive IPA Chart
6 separate interactive IPA charts for specific phonemes found in these major world languages: Chinese, English, Indian, Korean, Spanish, Turkish.
rtMRI IPA charts
Each clickable phoneme or word corresponds to an MRI of someoneās oral and nasal cavities while they say that phoneme/word.
Introduction to IPA Consonants
The Art of Language Invention, Episode 21: Ejectives and Implosives
A short explanation and demonstration of implosive consonants. May be of interest to English-speaking students who have rarely, if ever, heard these before. Length: 7m32s total; timestamped at implosive section - section 4m40s. Captions: auto.
Vox: Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs in English
A less technical but professional, detailed look at a common question about speakers of Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean who learn English as a second language. Includes an interview with Eleanor Lawson about using ultrasound to study phonology. Length: 8m56s. Captions: human-edited.
NativLang: Weird Phonemes - pronouncing the worldās rarest sounds
A short animated crash course in phonemes (almost all consonants) that English speakers are likely unfamiliar with. Length: 5m54s. Captions: human-edited.
Podcast: Lingthusiasm Episode 6: All the sounds in all the languages - The International Phonetic Alphabet
Section: Origin of the IPA symbols (9:16-11:50)
Section: Format of the IPA consonant table and mouth position (16:18-19:45)
Making Flaps Vibrate In Your Throat: Voicing
This Tom Scott video is an explanation of voicing only, but itās short and very engaging. Length: 3m18s. Captions: human-edited.
The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Donāt
This Tom Scott video is a nice introduction to the IPA chart as a whole and the grey āarticulations judged impossibleā area. Length: 6m30s. Captions: human-edited.
Introduction to IPA Vowels
ArticulatoryIPA YouTube Playlist
A collection of animations and ultrasounds that depict people pronouncing various phonemes. Captions: weāre not exactly sure how one would caption this.
Essential of Linguistics: 2.8 Diphthongs
A short technical video about diphthongs with mini-quiz below; dry but informative. Length: 3m00s. Captions: human-edited.
Aaron Alon: What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?
A fun look at the relationship of English spelling to its phonology, mostly focused on the (in)consistency of our vowels. Breaks each vowel grapheme down into the different IPA symbols itās likely to represent in English. Length: 4m05s. Captions: auto.
NativLang: Intro to Phonology: Consonants & Vowels
A short animated explanation of phonology in general. Length: 3m30s. Captions: human-edited.
Tech Tips
TypeIt: IPA Phonetic Symbols
An easy-to-use website that lets you easily type IPA symbols (either full IPA or language-specific subsets) into a text box, which you can then copy-paste elsewhere as needed.
How to Type the IPA on your phone (iOS or Android)
Several good free IPA phone keyboard options, reviewed.
Read the full consonants guide or vowels guide, or subscribe to the newsletter for all teaching resource compilations.Ā
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This studyblr may be dead but there's nothing like Sunday's night study session.
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Languages of Europe
Polish (jÄzyk polski)
Basic facts
Number of native speakers: 40 million
Official language: Poland, European Union (EU)
Minority language: Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Language of diaspora: Australia, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States
Alphabet: Latin, 32 letters
Grammatical cases: 7
Linguistic typology: inflectional, pro-drop, SVO
Language family: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic
Number of dialects:Ā 8
Longest word: konstantynopoliĀtaÅczykowianeczkĆ³wna (unmarried daughter of an inhabitant of Constantinople) - 36 letters
History
10th century - Polish began to emerge as a distinct language
1270 - earliest known sentence written in Polish
1500-1700 - Polish was a lingua franca in Central Europe
The oldest known example of written Polish is a single sentence attributed to a Czech speaking to his Polish wife recorded by a German monk in an otherwise all Latin text, the history of a Cistercian abbey in the Lower Silesian region.
Writing system and pronunciation
These are the letters that make up the alphabet: a Ä
b c Ä d e Ä f g h i j k l Å m n Å o Ć³ p q r s Å t u v w x y z Åŗ ż.
There are four diacritics: tail (Ä
, Ä), acute accent (Ä, Å, Ć³, Å, Åŗ), bar (Å) and dot (ż).
Of particular interest in the Polish sound system is the contrast between two groups of sounds that seem to be identical to non-Poles. For example, the letter combination sz and Å both sound similar to English āshā. The difference is that sz is a palatal retroflex while Å is an alveo-palatal.
Grammar
Polish has a very rich system of prefixes and suffixes, and the latter often cause changes to both consonants and vowels.
The number of genders in Polish has been and continues to be a matter of debate. There are three or four genders in the singular and two in the plural. The reasons for this are that the traditional masculine gender seems to be breaking up into two separate genders: animate and inanimate. There are seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, vocative).
Adjectives agree with nouns in terms of gender, case and number. Attributive adjectives most commonly precede the noun, although in certain cases, the noun may come first.
Verbs are of imperfective or perfective aspect, often occurring in pairs. Imperfective verbs have a present tense, past tense, compound future tense, subjunctive/conditional, imperatives, an infinitive, present participle, present gerund and past participle. Perfective verbs have a simple future tense, past tense, subjunctive/conditional, imperatives, infinitive, present gerund and past participle.
Dialects
Polish dialects include Greater Polish (wielkopolski), spoken in the west; Lesser Polish (maÅopolski), spoken in the south and southeast; Masovian (mazowiecki), spoken throughout the central and eastern parts; Silesian (ÅlÄ
ski), spoken in the southwest; Kashubian (kaszubski), spoken west ofĀ GdaÅsk; Goral (gĆ³ralski), spoken along the border between Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia; Poznanski, spoken in PoznaÅ, and the Eastern Borderlands dialect (kresy), spoken in the northeast and by Poles living in Lithuania and Belarus.
Silesian and Kashubian are considered to be separate languages by some people.
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what to do when everythingās a mess
Wash your hair. Donāt worry about all those articles online about the best haircare products of 2019 and whatnot, get in, wash it like you usually do, get out. Leave it to air dry, itās less work for you.
Brush your teeth. Even if you brushed them this morning and are probably going to brush it tonight, do it anyway. Especially if itās exam time, all that tea or coffee youāre most likely downing (props to you if you only study with water) probably makes them feel kind of gross.
I know most of these lists tell you to run a bath, but letās face it, for those of you who even have a bath in the first place, the thought of filling that tub and sitting there in complete silence for a couple hours seems like a trek. And ironically exhausting. So instead, just brush your hair, take a nap (set a nice soothing alarm) and once youāve gotten out of bed, wash your face or at least splash cold water on your face.
CLEAN clean clean clean CLEAN. Easier said than done, but at least start by clearing one messy component of your area; it could be your floor, your desk or your bed. You donāt need to clean and re-organise your entire room marie condo-style for you to actually have a reason to take the time to clean in the first place. A little goes a long way, and you donāt ALWAYS need to do the hard yards ya know.
I would say read a book, but sometimes your brain is melting or buzzing so it canāt really focus on anything lengthy. So instead, find someone reciting a poem online, and just listen to it. I recommend Jeremy Irons and his voicing of tons of T.S Eliot poetry, or Allen Ginsberg reciting his own poetry (Howl is a classic).
If youāre one of those people who drowns their sorrows by listening to music, donāt listen to music!! Donāt reinforce your pain!! So to that I say, listen to a podcast. If the classic podcast genre of true crime is a little too stressful and youāve already cried twice today, listen to interviews with actors, screenwriters and directors. It can be really refreshing to listen to people you already enjoy the content of talk about their work. I recommend Awards Chatter and Happy Sad Confused.
Stop staring at screens! Just physically sit outside for a bit, you donāt need to go for a jog or do a general workout, justā¦sit. People-watch, try and memorise the exact scene in front of you, from the mis-en-scene to all the colours and sounds and the way the sunlight feels on your eyelashes. Write it down if you want to, you could even denote a single notebook to your little outdoor descriptions. Or just write on a napkin. To each their own.
Have you eaten today? And I mean something hearty, something that isnāt primarily made out of air and salt. Something that falls under the umbrella of snack does not count; meal is more like it. If not, eat. Preparing food might feel exhausting, but soās going a relatively long amount of time without something nutritionally substantial.
If youāre feeling emotionally heavily, get out a notebook or even just a scrap of paper, a pen and cry until your eyes are as blurry as can be. With tears down your cheeks, scribble out how youāre feeling. DonātĀ bother with how neat or messy it is, whether the sentences even stay on the lines, itās not about being aesthetic. In fact, itās about being as messy as possible. Let all of it out, and let is act as a physical manifestation of whatās going on in your head. Donāt fight it or deny it, relieve yourself by both constructing and understanding yourself.Ā
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Polish words for noun and verb are literally āthingerā and ātimerā. Pretty self-explanatory.
something i really like about japanese linguistics is the direct translation the parts of speech have with their purpose:
for example: adjectives are å½¢å®¹č© (keiyoushi) which literally breaks down intoāform å½¢ +contain/appearance 容 +part of speech/word č© ā or more conciselyĀ āmodifying 形容 + part of speech č©ā
adverbs areĀ åÆč© (fukushi) which is literally the āvice/assistant + part of speechā as the 2nd in command to verbs
verbs are predictable, even before confirming the definition of the kanji i knew it would directly mention movement.Ā åč© (doushi) =Ā āmotion + part of speechā
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āI don't know if you heard, in one hour and a half I'm going to ask you what you've learnt. Have fun!ā
So I'm now cramming automata theory in my faculty chill out zone. (It's totally empty for once!)
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People donāt hate math. They hate being confused, intimidated, and embarrassed by math. Their problem is with how itās taught.
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I had a library tour recently. From top to bottom:
Introduction to linguistics
Grammar of Polish language
Numerical methods
Shell scripts
As you can see, I'm quite flexible, lol. No clue when I will find time for it.
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Ah yes, big news
05ā¢03ā¢2019
I got accepted as an intern in natural language processing research project. They said I got it because of my interest in linguistics and some text processing skills. Woohoo!
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28ā¢02ā¢2019
Note making at the library.
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Today is International Mother Language Day
Today is a day to celebrate our native languages. Today is a day to fight the oppression based upon language. Today is a day to honour those who have fallen due to their struggle to speak their mother tongue.
On February 21, 1952, students in Dhaka, Bangladesh, protested against oppression of the Bengali Language. Those students were massacred by the ruling Pakistani police. In honour of that blood-smeared day, we move to encourage linguistic diversity and awareness of linguistic traditions.
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