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Despite enjoying the lectures more, they actually gained more knowledge and skill from the active-learning session. It required more mental effort, which made it less fun but led to deeper understanding.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
He often mispronounces the first name of Vice President Kamala Harris, and during the 2024 Republican primaries, Trump took to referring to Nikki Haley as “Nimbra,” a corruption of her Punjabi first name, Nimarata
Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean • ‘The Former Guy’ Versus ‘Sleepy Joe ’ – Why Biden and Trump Are Loathe to Utter Each Other’s Name
An individual language is anything that is, or once was, the mother tongue of a group of human beings.
Bill Mayblin • Introducing Linguistics

Syntax and quirks of language #teaching
skepticism is “foundational to the scientific method,” whereas denial is “the a priori rejection of ideas without objective consideration.”[*]
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
face negotiators may orient towards self-face (one's own image), other face (the other conflict party's image) or mutual face (both parties' image and/or the image of the relationship).
wikipedia.org • Face Negotiation Theory
So, we’ve always known that some things that are pretty distinct from each other can interbreed and produce viable offspring occasionally, but they don’t do it commonly, so I don’t think anyone has trouble calling those different species.
Janna Levin • Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species? | Quanta Magazine
the tenuous relationship between language and reality; details the array of effects language has on our memory, attention, and reasoning; and describes how these varied effects power narratives and storytelling as well as political spin and conspiracy theories. Why should we care what language is good for? Enfield, who has spent twenty years at the
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