There is no exact synonym for (the old-fashioned) disinterested, for example. In such cases, keeping a "legacy" sense in circulation is laudable activism in pursuit of semantic sustainability—as if you found some members of a near-extinct species of mollusk and built a welcoming environment in which they could breed.
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Lisa Stewart
Talk Therapy Can Be Potent Medicine - NYTimes.com - 9 views
Disinterested or uninterested? How long we should cling to a word's original meaning. -... - 3 views
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Semantic Sustainability
The Pitcher with a Thesaurus in His Locker : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 5 views
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The baseball season is in full swing now,
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Pitching in today's home opener at Citi Field is R.A. Dickey, who has emerged as a fan favorite, not just for his way with a knuckleball, but for his way with words
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Who plays baseball/softball in Words R Us?
The Bountiful Lexicon of Baseball - 2 views
YouTube - On neuroplasticity (part II) - 1 views
YouTube - On neuroplasticity (part I) - 2 views
Whale Songs and Elephant Loves [Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media] - 1 views
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wonderful radio interview with the woman who first discovered the songs of whales and is now researching how elephants communicate outside of human auditory range
"Verbing" Nouns - 0 views
Articulation - 4 views
The Future of Children - - 16 views
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They found that adolescents who spent more time listening to music with degrading sexual content were more likely to initiate sexual intercourse and to progress in their noncoital activity than those who spent less time. That finding held up even when researchers took into account eighteen other predictors of sexual behavior.112
YouTube - Silbo Gomero - 4 views
Speech and Music Perception - 6 views
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This is a powerpoint by a UCSD professor clearly comparing music and speech both in terms of syntax and tones. Most of it is pretty technical, but it's interesting.
phonoloblog - Whistled languages: phonology and Unesco - 2 views
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In some sense, whistled languages use the phonology of a spoken language, such as Spanish in the case of the most well-known instance of this type of language, Silbo Gomero from one of the Canary Islands, La Gomera. Yet they implement this phonology in a radically different way — by whistling rather than moving organs in the vocal tract.
The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Volume II: Philadelphia, 1726 - 1757 -- Pennsylvania... - 1 views
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Published by Benjamin Franklin in his newspaper, this list of more than 200 slang terms for drunkenness was probably not compiled by Ben Franklin, as is widely reported on the internet.
North Korea's Digital Underground - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views
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these new media organizations are helping to create something remarkable: a corps of North Korean citizen-journalists practicing real journalism inside the country.
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Lisa Stewart
High School English teacher at Punahou School, 1990-present.