Skip to main content

Home/ Words R Us/ Contents contributed and discussions participated by micahnishimoto18

Contents contributed and discussions participated by micahnishimoto18

micahnishimoto18

Linguistics professor sheds light on evolution of "Spanglish" - Highlander - 0 views

  •  
    This evolution of the Spanish-English hybrid known as "Spanglish" really hit home. Especially considering how migrant workers adapted to language differences here in the early 20th century in the form of Pidgin, similar events took place in the states bordering Mexico.
micahnishimoto18

A Reprise for a 19th-Century Language Based on Music - Atlas Obscura - 1 views

  •  
    This article talks about a theoretical language, proposed in the early to mid 19th century, called Solresol. It's basically a language that uses colors and twelve notes of the chromatic scale as the basic words, and each combination of notes and colors means a different word.
micahnishimoto18

Which Came First: Music or Language? | Psychology Today - 1 views

  •  
    This article challenges the belief that music stemmed as an unimportant byproduct of language used merely to entertain us. Music and instruments was recently discovered to have a deeper history, and meaning, than many of us thought, and it forgoes the old belief that music did not affect (or negatively affected) the survival and fitness of individuals in the past.
micahnishimoto18

Is the Hawaiian Language Dead or Alive? - Honolulu Magazine - November 2013 - Hawaii - 2 views

  •  
    This article really perplexed me at first. We always talk about how we have to save Hawaiian, and yet, according to this article by the Honolulu Magazine, there are much more keiki speaking 'Olelo Hawaii than in the 1980's. We have made a great leap forward regarding the spread of Hawaiian language and culture, but this article delves into whether this spread is enough.
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20 items per page