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chevkodama22

Amazon Self Publishing: 9 Steps for First-Timers [VIDEO] - 0 views

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  • chevkodama22 on 20 May 22
     
    If you want to publish a book on Amazon.
braydenhee19

Amazons Plan to reach 500 Million Indians: Speak their language - 0 views

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  • braydenhee19 on 09 Oct 18
     
    Only ten percent of Indias population know how to read english, Shopping online in english can be discouraging if you cannot read the language. Amazon looking to cash in on these discouraged people have made their site viewable in Hindi. By doing so Amazon believes they will gain more customers from the fastest growing nation which means more money.
victoriamak15

Language Game Inspired by Noam Chomsky's Linguistics | Big Think - 1 views

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linguistics chomsky game app technology

shared by victoriamak15 on 10 May 15 - No Cached
  • victoriamak15 on 10 May 15
     
    Some game modes: Try to created the longest sentence. The longer the sentence, the higher the score. Timed feature to test ability to construct nonsensical phrases under pressure. App called Sleep Furiously. Available from Apple, Google and Amazon
blaygo19

Amazon's Plan to Reach 500 Million Indians: Speak Their Language - 0 views

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  • blaygo19 on 29 Nov 18
     
    Amazon wants to increase their number of users in India because of their giant population. However, most of the population doesn't speak English so Amazon's going to break the language barrier.
Lisa Stewart

Study: Math Skills Rely on Language, Not Just Logic | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

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  • Homesigners in Nicaragua are famous among linguists for spontaneously creating a fully formed language when they were first brought together at a school for the deaf in the 1970s. But many homesigners stay at home, where they share a language with no one. Their “home signs” are completely made up, and lack consistent grammar and specific number words.
  • Over the course of three month-long trips to Nicaragua in 2006, 2007 and 2009, Spaepen gave four adult Nicaraguan homesigners a series of tests to see how they handled large numbers. They later gave the same tasks to control groups of hearing Nicaraguans who had never been to school and deaf users of American Sign Language (which does use grammar and number words) to make sure the results were not just due to illiteracy or deafness.
  • When asked to recount the vignettes to a friend who knew their hand signals, the homesigners used their fingers to indicate the number of frogs. But when the numbers got higher than three or four, the signers’ accuracy suffered.
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  • Oddly, the homesigners did use their fingers to keep track of objects, the way children use their fingers to count. Spaepen thinks the signers use each individual finger to represent a unique object — the index finger is the red fish, the middle finger is the blue fish — and not the abstract concept of the number of fish. “They can’t represent something like exactly seven,” Spaepen said. “What they have is a representation of one-one-one-one-one-one-one.”
  • Ryan Catalani on 09 Feb 11
     
    "Psychologists had already suspected that language was important for understanding numbers. Earlier studies of two tribes in the Amazon - one that had no words for numbers greater than five and another whose counting system seemed to go "one, two, many" - showed that people in those tribes had trouble reporting exactly how many objects were placed in front of them. But in those cultures, which don't have monetary systems, there might be no need to represent large numbers exactly. The question posed was whether language kept those Amazonian people from counting, or a lack of cultural pressure. To address that question, Spaepen and colleagues turned to Nicaraguan homesigners, deaf people who communicate with their hearing friends and relatives entirely through made-up hand gestures."
Lara Cowell

Can the Book Survive in the Digital Age? * Trojan Family Magazine - 2 views

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  • Lara Cowell on 02 Mar 22
     
    Three University of Southern California professors offer their thoughts on whether print media and traditional books will survive this digital age, or whether they will become obsolete. "Today, practically anyone with online access can blog or tweet to a worldwide audience. This has both democratized writing and, in some ways, devalued it. At the same time, the rise of digital books and online mega-sellers like Amazon means more writers can self-publish their books, and readers can order books instantly with the push of a button. But authors are getting a smaller piece of the economic pie. Then there's the halo effect of social media. Some authors build strong followings on Twitter and Facebook, which bring writers closer to their readers-turned-fans. In this swirling media landscape, what will happen to the book as we know it?"
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