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Hi Rahel! I'm glad your list brought to mind films I hadn't seen in years, like "About time" and "Anna and the King". And I also always confused "The prestige" and "The illusionist"... But... where are the Star Wars movies???

Quanti ricordi! Ma io non posso ancora lasciarmi prendere completamente da un film a causa dell'emotività e non posso vederli al cinema per lo stesso motivo e anche a causa dell'audio che mi rintrona. Alcune colonne sonore sono veramente belle e originali (cosa rara di questi tempi), tanto che le ho usate anche durante il mio lavoro di insegnante. Grazie Rahel e auguri!

Coincidentally i bought MIB in Bluray few days ago 😂

Happy birthday once more 🎉❤ I loved the recommendations! There are a lot of movies I haven't seen yet! But Top Gun is also the movie I have watched more times. And I know why: I felt in love with Tom Cruise 😅😅😅

I have recently rewatched Rear window and it is just perfect, you never feel bored!

The pictures of the robot🤭

Can AI Really Create Human Languages?

I hope you are enjoying this cinema-related series because I will double up this Autumn! I plan to release two videos per month about movies and tv shows. The remaining two or three videos will likely be about academia and language/linguistics. I'm still thinking of moving vlogs and other content to a second channel, after September 1st. What do you think? Thank you for sticking around!

I'm surprised most alien languages don't use frequencies outside the human hearing range.

Sembra un'oca facciabianca gigante!

Is there any tools to produce word pronunciation sounds? ( probably just feed it into any text to speech generator may do it not sure ) i am thinking to get some karaoke songs ( without the words but with a familiar tune, so your mind would go to the translations automatically ) the layer the conlang words over the top of the tune ( to fill the song with words in a fictional language ) i did some coding that would make a nice language ( it was simple just reverse all characters in the normal languages spelling of words, except for the first and last characters of the word so is still human readable without a dictionary or learning it off by heart a whole thing ) it even operated in a browser plugin for Firefox, for instance the word human is hamun ( still quite pronounceable in sounds, for a nicer language construction ) the problem with this mechanism is 3 letter words come out the same ( so i just added code to add the center letter again ) so that cat would be caat, dog would be doog, 'the' would be thhe, etc ( still keeping the human readability factor )

Thanks, Rahel. You asked if anyone has used Vulgarlang. I have the paid version and I recommend people getting it. The free version's pretty good too but you get more features with pro and can create more words. You can tell it what sounds and grammar rules you want or use a preset "give me a language like X" feature. You can also save languages. It took me a while to get used to it though and you have to do a lot of tweaking to get the language just right. Even then, I wouldn't rely on it entirely, I'd want to be more creative. It makes a great helper, though.

Quell'arancione dei sedili della metro mi hanno ricordato i vecchi bus di Trieste 😄

Thank you! Yesterday I suddenly felt the need to watch Criminal Uk (had watched only one episode), but I couldn't remember the name of the show😅 so thanks for including it in the video!

As usual, you are awesome! Keep it up dear Rahel!

Having just bought the first 5 series on DVD to watch them again, I find more time and attention can be paid to the background stories of each character. It's sometimes very, very moving, partly because the characters are so well portrayed by some fine acting, but also that the tension between two generations, that is, those whose nature was deeply affected by experiences in WW2 as with Inspector Thursday, and Morse, who is representative of the 1960s generation. On the second viewing, I noticed how often there are references to Thursday's traumatic and life-changing experiences during WW2. This adds a deeply resonating distaste in him towards evil and those who commit terrible crimes. With Morse, there are some enigmatic aspects to his character which come into relief more when watching it again. He clearly has a problem expressing his feelings towards women, and his mishandling of moments with Joan Thursday, when he could have reached for her, are really tragic. The wonderful bittersweet theme tune now takes on a much more poignant role than it did in the Inspector Morse series. His poor timing is crucial to losing her, and to her marrying a man she doesn't really love, simply for a secure, but more dull and conservative life. Joan is a tragic figure at the end herself, because she becomes 'middle aged' before her time, and actually more like her parents than she expected earlier, surrendering her daring and sparkle after the failure of her attempt to be different by running away from home. I was overwhelmed by this turn out of events, and moved, because it is all too believable. It's just a brilliant series and I think, takes the whole Morse project to a new level, beyond the original series.

If AI and aliens spoke to each other, they would agree to destroy us. Then the world would be inhabited by xenomorph terminator. This is science.😆 Good video Rahel!

An alien race that is capable of FTL communication will NOT be using some bullshit caveman language for discourse between each other... Their communication will be over neuro-link and not via the same orifice they use for breathing and eating... Their language will be highly efficient and RARELY used. If I am a living creature capable of FTL communication, there's very little I need to learn. Almost everything - I could logically derive it myself faster than asking. Whatever is left of the alien language (for example for communication with machines) will be like our mathematical language, EG - Gödel's completeness theorem: (∀x. R(x,x)) → (∀x∃y. R(x,y)) For the aliens, the above will be as simple as "The letter O makes an O-sound like how your mouth does an O when you read the letter out". Their language will enable even more abstract and complex language, such that our minds cannot comprehend. Therefore, their language will be completely useless for communication between us and them. Like trying to talk to a bacteria...

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Un vero spettacolo!

La cosa più difficile è quella di non farsi sommergere dagli impegni e dalle continue richieste, salvaguardando i tempi di recupero psicofisico e la vita privata assieme alle proprie relazioni affettive.

Very useful tips! Thank you 🌹

What a beautiful trip! I loved it 🤩

Le parti nel bosco sarebbero da guardare e riguardare, ma la scena miglioree con la musica più apprezzabile e bella è quella con le anatre in fila! 😊

Sono d'accordo sulla validità di molti di questi film: alcuni sono bellissimi. Gli unici che non posso guardare sono quelli che mostrano scene truci e cattiverie. Beatrix Potter ha delle scene e dei paesaggi fantastici, oltre ai vari messaggi importanti che trasmette.

This made me realise that potentially any movie about african-americans can be consider inspirational considering what they had (and still have) to endure...

Premed education is fake. Calculus, physics etc are irrelevant to medicine. Premeds and medical students never learn nutrition, epidemiology, toxicology, stress management = the most important controllable variables in health. School becomes a guild barrier. School also is used to train people in a bogus pattern. Eg. to train a doctor to sell drugs, rather than to understand disease.

Il lavoro dei linguisti consiste ora nell'osservazione sistematica e nello studio dei vari fenomeni linguistici in modo da dare delle solide basi scientifiche alle loro ipotesi.

Well, it's not considered a perfect science because of empirical data. So you can propose multiple hypothesis with equal degree of certainty. Like for example, The "proto indo European language" exists because one guy, sir William Jones in 1786 kickstarted the argument because he refused to believe that Sanskrit, as elegant as it is, can be better suited as an information transfer medium (it has declensions for nouns so you can never confuse the subject, object, etc irrespective of the position of the words in the sentence) than Greek or Latin. On the other hand, i have so so many eastern linguistic scholars swearing on their very life that Sanskirti, Tamil and other languages developed independently. So yeah. Unless it's not mathematical, it's not a core science.

Ah, university...the real life dementor😬 Anyway, the reason you prefer e-books is precisley the reason why I dislike them😅 I noticed that I always check how long is a chapter before reading it and it is easier to have a sense of how much I've read/still have to read with a physical book Ps: I also noticed that I liked some podcasts because the experience of just letting a voice tell me a story reminded me of the audio tapes I use to listen to as a child 🤣

Bravo! This is a black and white. Most of us face similar challenge! Unfortunate. We even struggle with connecting to our beloved ones as time is the greatest challenge. Thanks for the suggestions as well.

Dear Rahel-Thank you very much again for your TH-cam video and reflections regarding the two scholars. I truly appreciate the insights, points, and tributes to these exemplary academics. I can attest to the contributions of Professor Yvonne Treis , who works extensively with Africans (Focus in Ethiopia), showing ease, commitment, and care in her connection with the local community. She collaborates closely with research assistants in Ethiopia, who are well-trained under her guidance. As her assistant, I know she approaches the research assistants and the community with care, respect, love and highest possible professionalism! Professor Yvonne is not only deeply connected to her research topics but also to the entire community, earning the affectionate title "Faranjichchúta Kambaatichchuta," meaning "White or Western Kambaata." Indeed, her collaborations are deeply rooted in community engagement, dedication, and respect for the local relationships. I agree! This is how research should be conducted. Thank you for doing this, Rahel. I am proud of you.

Hi Rahel - it's great to get your ongoing reflections on the work we're doing! I don't know if he'd identify himself as a fieldworker, but I draw a lot of inspiration from the work of Miami linguist Wesley Leonard. Here's a link to a video I find myself returning to again and again: <th-cam.com/video/2Oqye0gvCdA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9H7i5TEttdi96n-T>

Dr. Doolittle? Maybe also Tomb Raiding Movies like Atlantis are more common than you think.

Da giovane ascoltavo solo la radio e trasmettevano anche sceneggiati a puntate, ma ora mi sarebbe difficile ascoltare un audiolibro, non potendo mettere il volume giusto per me, dato che disturberebbe altre persone. Preferisco tenete in mano un libro rilegato in brossura, cioè flessibile, con la possibilità di leggere e rileggere i passaggi più interessanti o quelli letti distrattamente: mi piace gustare un libro con la mente e con le mani. Gli apparecchi per leggere gli ebook sono duri e per me poco maneggevoli. Anch'io mi rilasso e mi addormento facilmente mentre leggo, a meno che non si tratti di un romanzo che mi coinvolga emotivamente nelle vicende dei protagonisti.

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials

Ci vorrebbe la ricetta della torta ...

My kids father is Dominican, Peruvian and Latin from Spain. From my grandmother's im aniyvwiya, siska, Shawnee and the very last of the monetone native American tribes. From my grandfather's im Basque from Spain, black Irish, Egyptian, olox from Russia and German. If you ask my kids what they are they'll say American keep pushing they'll just answer proudly White look at my skin I speak English! They know their culture but have no interest because when they claimed it when they were learning their languages singing their songs they were accosted as white girls accused of appropriating culture. What most people fail to understand is white isn't a race it's the direct result of having a highly diverse blend and being denied the right to know your history and culture because of their biases. Go to a pow wow wait for the regalia gear to start coming off at the end you'll see white bases with farmer tans on everyone

Dear Rahel, thanks for sharing such a thought proving perspective. We also face worse here, unfortunately! Painful! Thanks indeed. Keep shining. You have numerous talents!

I think that Gattaca, In Time and Anon are very brilliant. Amanda Seyfried stars in two of these movies. Coincidences? I don't think so... 😆

That's what is made for explicitly.

I don't find it controversial I find it correct.

Dude. It's been that way for over two thousand years.

Dipende anche dai singoli insegnanti, soprattutto da quelli che cercano riparo alla propria inadeguatezza nascondendosi dietro alla massa dei colleghi, oltre che da qualche infelice normativa tendente ad eliminare le differenze tra le scuole e tra le classi della stessa scuola.

Trieste is a fabulous city, the meeting point of Italian, Austro-Hungarian, West Balkan Slavic and other cultures. Maybe this is only my experience, but it seems to have the friendliest and most welcoming citizens in all of Italy.

That is super cool! I loved the beautiful images you have got and the peaceful atmosphere of the video!

Proprio così...

Ah, Il prigioniero🤣che ricordi! Comunque molti di questi non li avevo mai sentiti nominare, peccato perché sembrano interessanti

Solo lì la luna ha questi colori incredibili!

A me le idee vengono più facilmente se cammino fuori di casa, magari nella natura, e poi scrivo un po' di parole su un foglio già in parte scritto o disegnato. Solo dopo fisso le idee sul quaderno bello. Certe volte un foglio bianco svuota il cervello ...