Can you think of any examples when you have filtered the words that come out of your mouth? They were not the first instinctive words in your mind? remember the test in class?
S*x
Sh*t
F**K
Six, Shot and Flak. Naturally!
This is a great reminder that we not only filter by perception (input) but by Language (output) as well. Thinking about interview techniques is another good way to recognize the way we filter our natural instincts with language. So, any examples of your own?
Reflecting on this weeks class. What did you make of our role play. I did some more reserach on the Tarara boom de ay theory. i think the original word hails from the Philippines, but its not a well known theory. Some housepoints available for anyone who can strengthen/ source this theory. I felt this theory was worthwhile and provokes another question. Why dance? I hope language originated from a state of celebration rather than necessity. Do you and does it matter in any case?
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6 years ago
in spanish it would be CA--ON the first word that will come to any spanish speaker's mind would be CABRON which is (pardon me) "muther fucker"
ReplyDeletebut what I really meant there is CARBON which is coal :)
as well as CA-ON people would think it's CAGON that means "wimp" but what I meant was CAJON which means drawer
ReplyDeleteThere is one really known funny riddle in Russian language about that.When, for example, I ask any Russia people give me a name of any word which consist of 3 letters and has "у" in the middle(it`s Russian letter)the first word which everyone will think about is "хуй"-means dick,but the actual word is "душ"-means shower ;)
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the e mail that did the rounds a few years ago. Have you seen :
ReplyDeleteFrom Cambridge University. (allegedly)
Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!
Psas Ti ON !
Does this still work for second language? I'm gonna post this on the blog!