99% is closer to 0% than to 100%
Graphemes never mean
A living thing is not necessarily aware that it is in a medium
Inhale until your lungs are uncomfortably full
Native Spanish-speakers struggle with English because the graphemes and phonemes don’t correspond one-to-one like they do in Spanish
Things never touch
Don't let anyone else read this
Explain why the ending of “canoe” sounds just like that of “zoo” but different from that of “toe”
The concept of alphabetization is absent in Chinese; characters are grouped by their primary brushstroke and ordered within that group by number of brushstrokes
We put larger spaces between words than between letters to differentiate which sets of letters comprise each word and to discretely identify each word from the others in a text
This is not what you see
As in the example of the anglerfish, many animals have been given names that relate their behavior or characteristics to those of humans, often inaccurately so
If one decided subsequently to spell “differentiate” with a starting s instead of a starting d, people would be thrown briefly but then assume an error had been made and they’d disregard it
You are surveilling this
Comprehend these four words
In order to record a complete taxonomy of the animal kingdom, every unique individual must be identified as such
Every sixth word can be removed from a text and the meaning is not substantially interfered with
The faces of born-blind people look different from those of the sighted
Written language is an agent of isolation
Remove all the vowels from this
The chickadee is named after an approximate conversion of the sound of its call into English, although birds routinely add two or more dees to their calls and drop the middle a entirely
99% is 0%
You can't even touch yourself
Jul 8, 2008
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or: you're constantly touching yourself.
Just. Excellent.
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