Lorindol

@Lorindol@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get good.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are correct. I majored in educational psychology and this language development in children has always been a special interest of mine.

  Baby talk is like beacon to the baby, it tells them that “This is for YOU, pay attention!”. The baby hears and learns the intonations, patterns and the rhythms of the language. It’s importance cannot be downplayed.

  A toddler can learn ~50 new words every day, so using normal speech is naturally important as well. But there is no need to try to overdo it. The mind of a small child is a massively powerful and superfocused “learning machine”, although it isn’t often apparent in their behaviour ;)

  Reading to children is especially beneficial to language development. It enriches the vocabulary and introduces common patterns and rhythms of expression. And the pictures in books help to create connections between ideas and words.

  The pace of language development is highly individual and forcing it is most likely useless. Children will learn what they can, at their own pace.

  Every one of my own children were able to use polynomial sentences and past and future tenses before they were three. We never tried to accelerate their learning in any way, they just picked it up. On the other hand, my friend’s kid did the normal baby talk phase and then remained completely mute until the age of four. One day he just opened up and said to her mom in a clear voice: “Mom, could you give me some milk, I’m thirsty.” And he spoke normally ever since.

  One advantage of quick language development is it’s effect on memory. A child that learns complex language skills early is more likely to form lasting memories of their early childhood. It may be that the memories can be stored more effectively and recalled more easily when the child is able to bind the experiences to words that can be used to express them.

  This is a very fascinating subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorblindness check!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remain baffled by this. But since I can barely differentiate red and green in optimal lighting conditions, it does not come as a surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul Giamatti Boards ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish they had left the 32nd century as a “Discovery - only”. After the jump to the future it felt like the show had no stakes. Everything felt disconnected.

  It feels like an easy excuse for the writers to pull just about anything out of their asses, “because it has been so long” and “tech has evolved exponentially”.

  SNW proved that there was a lot more to explore even in the 23rd century. So much could have been done with the fallout of the Dominion War in the 24th.

  But it’s all up to the writers. If they’re good the show can be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Leaf blowers in small yards are pointless, agreed. I would never use one in the suburbs.

  But I do own one and I use it at my family’s farm, for one day every autumn. It would take 3-4 days just to rake the leaves, with the blower I can easily create large piles here and there. Then I gather all the piles and take them to my leaf compost heap.

  Before the blower this used to take a full week. Now I can clear all the lawns in just two days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ant smell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I do have severe deuteranomaly. Diagnosed when I was 6 years old.

  I’ve read quite a lot about this, there are many cases where red/green blind people have exhibited abive average night vision.

  I was also very good at spotting camouflage, since the patterns were designed to fool people with normal colour vision. The only time my colour blindness was a disadvantage was in a contest between regiments, I had to direct artillery fire as fast as possible and the targets were big red boxes in front of the treeline.

  Our lieutenant lost his shit when he realized that he had a colour blind forward observer. We still won the contest, my squad handled the measurements impeccably and I verified them on the map. There was discussion of transfering me to other duties after this, but when I asked “Sir, how many big red box targets are there are in real war?” they quickly dropped the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ant smell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  During my military service I also discovered that I had exceptional night vision. I never stumbled in the dark forest and I could even read maps when others couldn’t see shit. I didn’t pay much attention to this quirk, but my commanding officer realized this and put it to good use. The following overnight recon patrols on foot and skis felt endless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your description fits my brother perfectly.

  He has very little curiosity, hasn’t read more than 3 books in his entire life, strongly dislikes all forms of art (except shitty movies and TV-shows), isn’t capable of analytical or critical thinking and hasn’t got a clue how the political system works.

  He apes the attitudes of his spouse and friends, so much that I’m not sure he even has any opinions of his own.

  Yet this doesn’t bother him at all. He’s very happy being oblivious and he makes more than twice as much money per month than I do with my master’s degree. He is very good at what he does and I’m happy for him.

  It would still be nice to be able to have a real conversation with him, instead of just stating the factual matters or laughing at some dumb jokes. If we both didn’t share such a strong resemblance of our dad I’d assume that my mom had an affair, beyond our appearance we have almost nothing else in common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨plaine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And you also need to reverse the polarity of the shield extangulator before doing so!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon Connections: LDS 4x07 - A Few Badgeys More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This was my interpretation as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unions work. That's why the corporations don't like them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same thing in my country. The percentage of union members has been in steady decline for years, mostly due to years of right-wing paid propaganda that has had an alarmingly great effect on the younger generations.

  Another reason is that since the unions did such great work in the years after WWII, the working conditions in most workplaces are pretty damn good. Therefore many assume that “union membership is useless for me, why should I pay anything for something I already have?”

  The unions are slowly losing their power to defend the workers due to this idiocy. Many of the unions have been poorly managed and haven’t done their work defending the workers as efficiently as they should have, this cannot be denied.

  Right now our right-wing government is planning new labour laws that would break the peace between the unions and employers that has lasted for decades. A peace that has brought us such prosperity our grandparents couldn’t even dream of.

  But no, the rich just must have more and more.