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Senator Farley Announces Student Displays On Historical Women To Be At Canal Days On July 8th
Last March, State Senator Hugh T. Farley (R,C - Schenectady) invited school children to create essays, poems, collages and posters on local historical women. These materials were complied into a display that traveled to schools such as D.H. Robbins Elementary School in St. Johnsville, St. Mary's Institute in Amsterdam and Park Terrace Elementary School in Gloversville. The exhibit will now be displayed on Saturday, July 8th, at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site as part of Ft. Hunter's Canal Days celebration. Hours of the exhibit will be 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"The children did a fabulous job with this assignment," Senator Farley said. "I am terribly proud of their efforts to honor local history and historical women, and am pleased to bring this historical display to a great historical place -- Schoharie Crossing."
Children created original works focusing on the accomplishments of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Kateri Tekakwitha, Rose Knox and other historical women.
Senator Farley's display will also include free booklets that contain biographical information on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- who both have ties to Montgomery and Fulton counties -- Lucille Ball, "Grandma Moses" Robinson, Harriet Tubman and Emma Willard, among others, all with strong links to New York.
"History buffs will enjoy Canal Days," Senator Farley said. "My table will also have several State and local history brochures and guides. Furthermore, the festival takes place in and around the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, which preserves several structures dating back to the beginning of the Erie Canal."


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A South Florida photographer was in the Big Cypress National Preserve early Monday when he captured these images of large and small alligators crossing a dirt road. Photographer Bobby Wummer says it was just after sunrise when more than a dozen gators started making their way out of a pond across a road and into a deeper canal. Although the video appears to have been taken at close range, Wummer says he shoots his pictures with a big wildlife lens, so he is certain not to disturb the reptiles. The bigger lens also allows him to stay a safe distance away from his dangerous subjects.
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2009 Domaine du Castel 'C' Blanc du Castel Judean Hills
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Anonymous wrote: (90 points)
April 4, 2013 - Monthly tasting club LTC 2013-04; A mixed set of white, red and sweet wines. (@ KvH): Almost the same (blind) note as last year. Not really sure what to think. The oak is still quite dominating, but one way or another it also gives you that luxury feeling. The minerals show, but the fruit is a bit overpowered. Give it some more years of ageing so the oak can integrate.
Gabriel Geller wrote: flawed
February 25, 2013 - While it has evolved, the reduction is still there and heavily so and personally this is not a wine that I can consider as drinkable. Light gold in color with on the nose blue cheese, mold and toasted brioche and much of the same on the palate along bitter notes of parsil and cilantro, with very low acid and a long finish.
Anonymous wrote: (90 points)
July 2, 2012 - Weekly tasting group #032; A mixed set of white wines. (@ CvR): Beautiful and complex bouquet with smoke, toast and caramel. On the palate minerals, tart lime, stone fruits and yellow fruits. See also previous mote.
Yagil wrote: (90 points)
June 7, 2012 - unique gasoil aromas and flavors, odd vintage - but very special
(like an old Riesling)
Anonymous wrote: (91 points)
April 13, 2012 - This is something special. The bouquet is loaded with toasted oak and minerals, flint stone and almost volcanic impressions. Same on the palate. Also concentrated and ok acidity. At first a bit difficult, but with more airtime and a little higher temperature the wine showed more nuances. Gives the impression of the more luxurious Burgundy wines. I guess around 2014 or 2015 this can be a great wine. 91+
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The Nova Renderer is a complete re-write of Minecraft's renderer. It's designed from the ground up to support shaders, rather than hacking them into Minecraft as the Shaders Mod does. Nova accomplished this by putting the renderer into a C++ shared library, which is loaded into Minecraft by a thin Java shim. This enforces a clear separation of concerns between the renderer code and the rest of Minecraft, allowing for a high standard of code quality.
Nova brings a number of features to Minecraft:
Shaders Mod compatibility
Nova is 100% compatible with Optifine Shaders. All features supported by Optifine Shaders are also supported by Nova.
Write shaders in GLSL 120 or 450
- One of Nova's primary goals is full compatibility with existing shader packs. This means supporting GLSL 120, even though Nova uses OpenGL 4.5 core which has no implicit support for GLSL 120. Nova solves this by including a GLSL 120 to 450 transformer to automatically upgrade GLSL 120 shaders into 450. Stick with the comfort of GLSL 120 or embrace the newest features in GLSL 450 - the choice is yours.
Render arbitrary block groups with arbitrary shaders
- The Shaders Mod pre-defines some shaders, each of which renders a pre-set group of blocks. Nova allows you to create shaders that render whatever bits of geometry you want. Need a shader that only renders water? Need to include chests in the entities shader? Wish you could render leaves, grass, and other foliage in shaders all of their own? All of this and more can be done with Nova.
Tessellation and geometry shaders
- Nova will include support for tessellation and geometry shaders. Using these, you can do things like subdivide water and lava so that ripples on them look nicer, or add fur to wolves and sheep to give them an authentic fluffy look.
Lighting shaders for emissive blocks
- Minecraft has many emissive blocks. In vanilla, and in the Shaders Mod, the Minecraft engine itself calculates lighting. Nova will add the option for a shader pack to specify a light shader that will be used for emissive blocks. Nova will render a deferred light using the lighting shader for each lit block, allowing for more complex lighting effects.
Shader storage buffers
- Nova will allow you to define shader storage buffers in your shaders. These are useful for passing data between shader stages without using a framebuffer attachment, or for keeping data across frames. You could, for example, keep an array with the log-luminance of the last few frames, which could then be used for dynamic eye adaptation. This enables more complex temporal effects of all sorts.
And that's just the features that are planned for Nova version 1! There's plenty more awesome stuff on the backlog for versions 2 and 3, off of it designed to enable more powerful shaders and more complex effects.


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Mac OS X version of AutoCAD due out in October
08/30/2010, 10:08 pm
Autodesk is bringing AutoCAD, its industry standard design software, back to the Mac in October. A free AutoCAD viewer app for iOS is on its way as well.
Apple-supported H.264 standard gains free license for Internet video use
08/26/2010, 08:08 pm
The MPEG Licensing Authority has announced that it will indefinitely extend royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users, erasing a key advantage of Google's WebM rival and cementing Apple's preferred H.264 as the video format for modern HTML5 video on the web.
Microsoft demonstrates compatibility features in Office 2011 for Mac
08/18/2010, 02:08 pm
Microsoft on Wednesday released a new video highlighting new ways that Office 2011 for Mac users will be able to work with data in Excel and new photo editing tools, all compatible with Office for Windows.
John Carmack shows 'Rage' 60 fps game engine on iPhone 4
08/12/2010, 09:08 pm
Speaking at QuakeCon, id Software cofounder and video game luminary John Carmack demonstrated the company's id tech 5 gaming engine running a Rage-themed demonstration on iPhone 4 at an impressive 60 frames per second.
Microsoft to launch Office for Mac 2011 in late October
08/02/2010, 10:08 am
Microsoft announced Monday that Office for Mac 2011 will arrive at the end of October with a lower price per installation for all editions, starting at $119.
Security experts release software to attack Android phones
07/30/2010, 07:07 pm
A tool for attacking devices running Google's Android operating system was released by security researchers today at the Defcon hackers conference in Las Vegas.
Millions of Android users hit by malicious data theft app (u)
07/29/2010, 12:07 am
An app distributed by Google's Android Market has collected private data from millions of users and forwarded it to servers China, validating Apple's uniquely strong stance on mobile security in the iPhone App Store.
Microsoft officially unveils key Office 2011 for Mac features
07/28/2010, 01:07 pm
Microsoft has added official notice of a variety of key features in the upcoming release of its Office 2011 suite for Mac users.
Apple plugs autofill vulnerability with Safari 5.0.1
07/28/2010, 10:07 am
In addition to activating extensions, Apple's latest update to the Safari Web browser also plugs a potentially dangerous security hole that could allow hackers to obtain a user's personal information.
Apple releases Safari 5.0.1 with Extensions, launches gallery
07/28/2010, 08:07 am
Apple on Wednesday released Safari 5.0.1, the latest version of its Web browser, with Safari Extension enabled. Users can also download Extensions through the newly launched gallery.
Apple tightens iPhone App Store security
07/27/2010, 03:07 am
Responding to piracy problems in the iTunes App Store, Apple has instituted stronger security measures to protect users' accounts.
Apple's new Xcode 4 could portend new HTML5 development tools
07/26/2010, 10:07 pm
Apple's newly minted Xcode 4 integrated development tool reflects a strong investment in building software designed to create new software, particularly for the iPhone and iPad. Developers say it could also signal a new push into Adobe's territory, if Apple delivers a similar development environment aimed at building HTML5 web content.
OpenGL 4.1 specification released and ready for use by Apple
07/26/2010, 03:07 pm
The Knronos Group released its latest OpenGL 4.1 specification today at the SIGGRAPH conference, introducing tighter integration with mobile OpenGL ES and OpenCL APIs and expanding its core capabilities to unlock graphics performance on both Macs and PCs and on iPhones and other mobile devices.
64-bit iLife '11 said to arrive in August with a 'mystery' application
07/26/2010, 10:07 am
Apple's iLife '11 suite will launch in August for $79, with all included applications being 64-bit, including a new "mystery" addition, a rumor suggests.
HP's webOS 2.0 to take on iPhone 4, iPad later this year
07/23/2010, 03:07 pm
After making comments to the contrary this summer, Hewlett-Packard is now positioning its acquired Palm webOS as a competitor to Android and iPhone 4, as well as Apple's iPad, relegating its Windows 7 Slate PC offerings to a business tablet niche.
Security researcher demos autofill exploit in Apple Safari
07/22/2010, 03:07 pm
The autofill feature found in Apple's Safari Web browser could be used by a hacker to illegally obtain a user's personal information, including their name and e-mail address, a security researcher has discovered.
Apple opens new iPad-like MobileMe Calendar beta
07/21/2010, 11:07 pm
Apple has launched its new beta V2 update of the MobileMe web-based Calendar, sending users announcements that allows them to opt into the new program, which brings shared calendaring and an iPad-like appearance.
Mozilla releases first beta of Firefox 4.0 for Mac with crash protection
07/06/2010, 07:07 pm
Mozilla Corporation on Tuesday released the first external beta of Firefox 4.0 for Mac users, the latest version of the firm's popular web browser built atop its new Gecko 2.0 layout engine.
Death Grip hysteria may end Monday with iOS 4.01
06/25/2010, 06:06 pm
Reception issues observed by new iPhone 4 owners, derided as the "Death Grip" by bloggers, appears to actually be a software issue that an iOS update is expected to resolve early next week.
Valve releases Counter-Strike: Source for Mac
06/23/2010, 03:06 pm
The No. 1 online action game in the world, Counter-Strike: Source, is now available for Mac OS X via Valve's Steam distribution platform, and is free for those who already own it on Windows.


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A groundbreaking guide to the surprising source of good health
Genetics and lifestyle are thought to be the two most important determinants of good health. But that is not the whole story. We have a second genome, our gut bacteria, that sets the dial on our bodies. Unlike our DNA, we can influence the gut bacteria, or microbiota, to optimize all aspects of our health.
In The Good Gut, noted Stanford researchers Justin and Erica Sonnenburg, who are doing cutting-edge research on the microbiota, investigate how the trillions of microbes that reside in our gastrointestinal tract help define us, affecting everything from our immune response to our weight, allergic reactions, aging and emotions; how they are under threat from the Western diet, our antibiotics, and our sterilized environment; and how we can nurture our individual microbiota.
This is urgent news. The recent change in our gut microbiota is linked to the alarming increase in obesity and autoimmune diseases. Our intestinal microbiota play an important role in the prevalence of predominantly Western afflictions, such as cancer, diabetes, allergies, asthma, autism, and inflammatory bowel diseases. These gut bacteria are facing a mass extinction, and the health consequences are dire.
How can we keep our microbiota off the endangered species list? How can we strengthen the community that inhabits our gut and thereby improve our own health?
Your prescription for gut health is unique to you, and it changes as you age. The Good Gut offers a new plan for health that focuses on how to nourish your microbiota, including recipes and a menu plan. Drs. Sonnenburg look at safe alternatives to antibiotics; dietary and lifestyle choices to encourage microbial health; the management of the aging microbiota; and the nourishment of your own individual microbiome.
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Match Fishing
There are currently two waters at Sumners Ponds that can be used for fishing matches.
The Match Lake, set on its own away from the campsite, this 3.5 acre lake provides prolific fishing with Barbel, Chub, Carp, Crucians, Tench and Roach. This lake has a very good reputation and is very popular among match fishermen and day ticket anglers.
Our two acre Ribbon Lake which is, as its name implies, a meandering ribbon of water with islands to fish from. This lake is well stocked with silver fish such as Barbel, Tench, Chub, Bream and Crucians.
Partial use of lake: £8.00 per angler - £30 deposit required when booking.
Exclusive use of whole lake: £195.00 - £60 deposit required when booking.
For current offers and discounts click here.
Night Fishing & Membership
Anyone wishing to fish after dusk, will need to become a member. Currently night fishing can only take place on the Sumners Lake by booking one of the night swims. These must be booked in advance by contacting reception on 01403 732539. There is an additional charge for members of £10.00 for a night session. Guests are permitted at an additional £25.00 for a night session. For more information and costs you can download the membership pack here.
Membership at Sumners Ponds can be very beneficial especially if you are a regular visitor. If you become a member of the fishery all you day time fishing is paid for for a whole year from the date that you apply. Members can fish from 6am when the mornings are light enough until dusk or 9pm, which ever comes sooner.
Please note that we care for the well being of our valuable fish stocks and you must be sure to have read the rules and have the correct equipment. Our staff are happy to advise you and most experienced fishermen are happy to give advice.


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wow I absolutely love this decoration! this inspired me to host my own friends giving for sure! Thank you so much for sharing love. The Urban Outfitters lights are awesome.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite Holidays because It's such a beautiful reason to get together with family. I know, I know… we should be giving thanks all year long duh! It's still nice to have a special day wehre you come together and be thankful for every little thing we are blessed with. Enough of my cheezy self though…. Let me talk about how much I love hosting people at our house !
John and I live in a beautiful 1920s craftsman home which is old but charming. We have a really big yard, which (full disclosure) is mostly a mess because it's way too big for us and our dogs just own it pretty much. We also have this cute little area in the back (our hang out spot) where we always invite our friends over to BBQ and hang out. Considering it still feels like Summer here, I decided to host a last minute outdoor Friendsgiving dinner this past weekend. You might have caught me talking about it on snapchat where I couldn't find a good table cloth! I ended up finally using one of our favorite blankets that we normally have on our bed just because it looked way cooler. Afterall, thats what washers are for.
This was the perfect excuse to bust out my new lights Urban Outfitters sent me. I hung them everywhere to get really mood holiday vibes and put a couple squash and pumpkins I had in my kitchen as part of the centerpiece. I didn't have much time as this was a very last minute plan (ehem.. as in, I invited my friends the day of.. hehe). I asked them to each bring over one piece of food (potlock style) and it all worked out quite smoothly. I'm surprised everyone showed up being that I let them know the day of! Anyway, hope this gave a little dose of inspiration for those of you looking to have a friendsgiving dinner. Ps these lights are super affordable over at Urban Outfitters here. xx F
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wow I absolutely love this decoration! this inspired me to host my own friends giving for sure! Thank you so much for sharing love. The Urban Outfitters lights are awesome.
Omg these pictures make me want to host a Friendsgiving dinner! So cute! Love those lights xo, sharon
What an amazing set up and I love how cozy and warm it feels. I am obsessing over those side tilted glasses and of course the lights! Such a lovely dinner amongst friends! It is inspiring me to maybe host one of these myself…maybe next year. =) xoxo, Christine
Friendsgiving! What a lovely idea! There are so much to be thankful for, so why not have a Friendsgiving to celebrate that and judging by your pictures you had a great time as well and I love your crazy ideas such the one about the bed linen, haha. 🙂
Girrrrl, I was drooling over your setup when I saw your Snapchat on this! But you photographed it even more beautifully (of course). UGH. I wish I was this cute! Best Friendsgiving setup EVER ♥
I love this, it's like glamping! It would be so fun to get together like this with friends for thanksgiving 🙂
I am loving your Thanksgiving decor! So pretty. Usually we host dinner at my sister's place but this year we'll be travelling so it'll be less traditional,but tons of fun. Have a great celebration and dinner!
I want to come over for Thanksgiving haha! I love that tablecloth and those tilted glasses. Such a beautifully set table.
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I love the little bits that you've got in this post and it really gives off a great homey vibe!
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I'm loving the holiday stuff! Those pics are amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Wow.. these are so beautiful and will make the best presents. Thanks for sharing beautiful.
These pictures are stunning and I absolutely love your décor. As matter of fact, I was invited to a Friendsgiving event this Sunday but due to our travel schedule, we won't be able to make it. Thanks for sharing!
I love this little outdoor nook area, it's so perfect for some al fresco dining!
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You just set the bar high for the Friendsgiving I'll be hosting next week. LOVE your decor style.
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I have been reading up on the story of how Glass Gem corn was produced, and its really neat that the guy who developed it is part Cherokee. What i would like to know is if anyone knows what type of corn Glass Gem is? Sweet Corn, field corn, or strictly ornamental? Thanks!
Glass Gem Corn, what type is it?
I have been reading up on the story of how Glass Gem corn was produced, and its really neat that the guy who developed it is part Cherokee. What i would like to know is if anyone knows what type of corn Glass Gem is? Sweet Corn, field corn, or strictly ornamental? Thanks!
It's flint corn.
ah so then it would be ornamental like your typical Indian corns in the markets then, huh?
with that many a range of colors, you could easily use it as easter decor just as well as autumn decor, LOL!
It's mostly bred to be ornamental, but they are all edible. Just not sweet. Your cornbread might turn out gray using this stuff though. :)
i also read somewhere that it could be popped like popcorn, but the expanded insides would not be big like actual popcorn cultivars
It certainly looks like glass!
It looks like it to me. Your field corns are dent or flint with most being dent. Dent corn has a "dent" in the top of the kernel when it is dry, flint corns don't. Flint corns are also harder. Pop corn is a sub class of flint corn. None of them are different species as far as I know and Sweet, Dent, Flour, Pop and Flint corns will all cross with each other.
There we go Doug9345 - thanks for the info. Apparently my ornamental corn is flint which is a totally new term for me. No dent. Very rounded little kernels. I grew Japenese hull less popcorn beside of the one row of ornamental corn and even though the popcorn was mostly white, it had a few scattered dark purple kernels on the ears. Now I'm wondering if that was because of the ornate corn or no? Since you seem so knowledgeable about corn, can you tell me: The Japanese hull less is wonderful and dry enough I have been popping it. Do you think I can save seed and expect good results from it as far as popcorn is concerned?
i would definitely rule in a cross since you planted the two types so closely. Corn pollen can be carried VERY long distances by wind, which is why most folks say make sure other corn plantings are at least 500FT away from each other.
Are you talking about saving it as seed or popcorn. It popping for you so it's good for that. As far as seed I'd pick out the purple ones and same seed from as many different plants as I could.
Yep, corn is all the same species. There's just an enormous amount of potential genetic diversity in it.
O.K. Doug9345 - Good idea. I'll save some popcorn for seed and pick out the purple ones. Think I will go a step farther and save the purple ones for seed as well, but plant them in another area. Will be a good experiment. Enjoyed your feedback - you seem quite knowledgeable on the corn.
I have fresh glass gem corn seed if anyone wants send me a d mail with your address
Glass gem is popcorn-I keep thinking its sweet. The other looks like Ruby corn, only more transparent! I don't remember which corns were used as crosses, but I don't think the color will grow true...
Flint and Dent, field corns. Flour, Parch, and Pop, Sweet and Candy, So many names to choose from!
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Friends with Boys Paperback
by Faith Erin Hicks
A coming-of-age tale with a spooky twist! Maggie McKay hardly knows what to do with herself. After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and rough-housing with her older brothers, it's time for Maggie to face the outside world, all on her own.
But that means facing high school first. And it also means solving the mystery of the melancholy ghost who has silently followed Maggie throughout her entire life.
Maybe it even means making a new friend one who isn't one of her brothers.
Funny, surprising, and tender, "Friends with Boys "is a pitch perfect YA graphic novel full of spooky supernatural fun."
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- Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
- Publication Date: 28/02/2012
- Category: Comic strip fiction / graphic novels
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For Maggie, a lot of stuff is changing. Not only is she starting her first day of high school (also her first day of public school ever since she was homeschooled before), but her mom's left the family and her dad's got a new job. Her brothers are fighting and she's being haunted by a ghost. It's a lot for a girl to take. But as Maggie learns to navigate the crowded halls of high school, she'll also start to figure out that you have to move on with your life and take the changes as they come. I was attracted to pick up this book because I'm interested in reading more stories about homeschoolers. Maggie is NOT a girly girl. She's much rather run around with her brothers, but in high school she'll have to start making her own way. Soon she learns that there's more about everybody than meets the eye and the decent people are the ones who embrace differences instead of making fun of them. Expressive art combines with a relatable storyline to make a graphic novel that many teens will identify with.
Review by zzshupinga
Maggie McKay is a bit lost at the moment. See she's entering high school for the first time. Which would be bad enough, but Maggie has never been in a traditional school before. She's only been home schooled with her older brothers by their mother...who by the way has left the family for pastures unknown. So now Maggie's facing the real world for the first time, without her mom there for support, and to top it off her brothers seem to be busy with their own lives and forgetting about her! And oh yeah, there's a silent ghost that follows her around. So Maggie has to face the real world for the first time, attempt to grow up a bit and find her own place in the world and in her family. Along the way perhaps she'll make a new friend (one who isn't an older brother) and solve the mystery of the quiet ghost who has followed Maggie her entire life.I've been following the webcomic release of this book for some time now and I've really enjoyed it so far, in part because the author's commentary provides such great insight. And...in some ways I really wish the book had the commentary because it describes so much of what the author is really thinking and it's just nice to be able to read that part of the creative process. Alas the book does not have this, but I'm still excited to have this review copy. Faith accurately captures that feeling of confusion, of hopelessness when entering high school and does a fantastic job of making the characters feel real. You can easily identify them as someone that you may have come across in your own school and identify with that sense of confusion, of loss, of discovering who you are. It's a good coming of age story and it's nice to see how Maggie grows and changes during the pages of the book as she finds her place in the world at large. And in her family. And I love the other characters in the story, especially Lucy. She's so energetic, so confident in who she is and what she is that I love seeing her on the pages of the story. What really stands out to me though is the fact that Maggie and Lucy are both strong female characters. They're completely grounded in reality so they have their faults, but they don't ever fall into that "woe is me, I'm a girl and can't do anything mode." I really like the artwork in the book. Faith has a way of capturing the characters perfectly. They have a lot of depth to their expressions so that even without the words of the story you can tell what's going on. I get lost looking at the expressions sometimes while reading, because it is just so pitch perfect. Faith also has a way of capturing the feelings and movements of being in high school. That sense of being crowded and all alone at the same time. And that sense of relief at finding someplace to be yourself. And I love the maps that Maggie draws to find her way around the school and identifying the places not to go, like the makeout corner. It almost feels like maybe this is part of a series as there are a couple of questions left unanswered, such as where is Maggie's mom and what's the story with the ghosts? Even if there are no sequels this is a good coming of age tell with strong female characters and I give the book 4 out of 5 stars. A review copy of this book was provided by Gina at FirstSecond
Review by ElizaJane
Reason for Reading: I enjoy the author/artist and was intrigued that the book was about homeschooled teens.The author is obviously writing from her own life seeing as she was homeschooled until high school and has three brothers. This is the background of the main character in the book, added to Maggie's life is that her mom has just skipped out on them without her really knowing why and Maggie has been haunted by a 17th century ghost since she was about six. I really enjoyed this book. I think it gave a fairly accurate portrayal of homeschool life though Hicks did treat it like it was the 1990's, not now when it has become pretty much mainstream. (I was homeschooled for high school in the '80s and have been homeschooling my children in one way or another for the last 19 years.) The title is a little deceptive as I thought we might get into dating and stuff, but it refers to sisters being friends with their brothers and I really appreciated this theme. I don't have any brothers but I really envied the close relationship Maggie had with hers and how the relationship between Lucy and Alistair developed also. The book deals with other typical teen subjects such as being new to a school, dealing with bullies, how to make friends and what it's like when your brother is popular but you are not. Hicks artwork is as expected and truly measures up to her other work making it a delight to look at. The only problem with this could be that she draws her characters very similar and the main two females in this book are almost identical to the two females in "The War at Ellesmere" with different hairdos. I loved the characters, the story about the teens at school, the family dynamics, etc. but the bit about the ghost haunting was an oddity. It stuck out at first and didn't seem to fit in with the rest but eventually it came together and found a place within the larger scheme of things. Only, while I was happy with the way things ended for the humans in the story, the ghost ending was rather abrupt and left many unanswered questions. These kinds of endings bother me, but it does give one thoughts to ponder. Taken as a whole, this is my favourite book by Faith Erin Hicks so far and the small irritations I had with it don't amount to the lessening of my enjoyment, so I'm sticking with the full 5 stars.
Review by kmartin802
I liked this graphic novel about a young girl adjusting to some big changes in her life. Maggie McKay is starting her first day of school at the start of ninth grade. She had been home-schooled by her mother along with her three older brothers. When the story begins, her mother is gone, maybe left to find herself, her father has accepted the job as chief of police and gotten a haircut, and Maggie is going to school for the first time. Her brothers are there but are busy with their own thing leaving Maggie a bit lost and lonely. She makes friends with Lucy, who believes in ghosts, and Lucy's older brother Alastair. They are all sort of outcasts together. There is some tension between Alastair and the Big Man on Campus - Matt - who is the leader of the volleyball team and some tension between Alastair and Maggie's oldest brother Daniel.Adding to the adjustment problems is the fact that Maggie sees a ghost and has seen her for years. From Lucy she learns that the ghost is the wife of a ship captain whose ship vanished. The woman lost her husband and all three of her sons. When the ship reappeared, everyone was gone. There was nothing left but the captain's prosthetic hand which is now housed in a local museum. Lucy and Maggie want to see if they can find out what the ghost wants so that they can lay her to rest - but Lucy would really love to see her first.The story is well-drawn in a sort of manga, anime sort of way. The characters all seem to have big eyes and pointy chins. The color palate makes most of the characters look sort of scruffy. There are lots of shades of gray along with the black and white. The story is very clear and understandable and easy to follow for this graphic novel novice. I thought that the author/illustrator got quite a lot of character development in despite the relatively small amount of text in the story. I recommend it for fans of graphic novels who want something that doesn't involve any sort of superhero.
Review by BrittDonohueWhite
Easy to read and enjoyable story of a girl trying to make her way in the world of high school.
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This whole article is a mess.
First, there are problems with organization. For example, the last paragraph begins, "/p/ has quite a similar symbolism because the process of making the sound /p/ is identical except that /b/ is voiced, and /p/ is unvoiced." /p/ has a similar symbolism to what exactly? The previous paragraph (and in fact the entire section) was about Ramachandran's ideas on metaphors. And the section is entitled "Relationship with Neuroscience".
Second, the tone is as far from encyclopedic as possible. It's more of a fan page for Margaret Magnus's pop-science book "Gods of the Word" than an article. Here's a good example: "The sounds of these words, evoke images, and images have an emotional impact, and every advertiser knows that emotions determine behaviour! Prozac was originally called Fluoxetine before the marketing guys got hold of it...."
Third, the article is extremely POV, being nothing but Magnus's ideas, and all of the support she's found for those ideas in historical and modern times.
There clearly is something to phonosemantics. Nobody disputes intra-language iconism in Japanese, Yoruba, etc. Nobody doubts that the pook/pak/peek experiments show at least some inter-language iconism.
However, this quote from the article is another story: "/b/ forms blunt bulges, whereas /p/ tends to precise points; /b/ blows up, whereas /p/ simply pops". It certainly sounds cute, but it means very little, and what it means is wrong. Think about "pan" vs. "ban" or "lap" vs. "lab". How precise is "plateau", how blunt is "bristle"? (It's also a possible copyvio from Magnus's book and/or site, but I haven't checked that.)
The real problem is that there's no established consensus out there. Linguistics as a whole is a pretty young and under-manned science, and this is at best a nascent sub-speciality of minority interest.
Do a quick search on sci.lang or LINGUIST for works like phonosemantics, iconism, ideophone, phonesthetics (there's not even a consensus on the terms...) and you'll see that almost everyone making strong claims disagrees with almost everyone else. And the quality ranges from the plausible scholarly speculations of John Lawler to the usual cranks trying to prove that their national language is descended from Sumerian. To an outsider, it's hard to tell what to believe.
Wikipedia should have an article on phonosemantics (or some other related term). But this--or anything else pulled straight from "Margo's Magical Letter Land"--is not it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk • contribs)
- I couldn't agree more! There are many problems with this article, and to be honest I wouldn't know where to start fixing them. It says that many of the phenomena aren't universal, yet happily goes on giving English examples. It cites Plato's Cratylus crudely out of context, without the crucial part of Socrates admitting that his theory is problematic as there are innumerable counterexamples. The tone is far too colloquial. The section 'Application of Phonosemantics' is simply original research (I will remove it in a minute, see WP:CITE). It looks like the part on Japanese phonosemantics has been copy-pasted from another article without any regard for structure or flow, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are copyvios to be found in other parts of the texts.
- There are a few useful things, however, especially on the history of phonosemantics. Merging the useful material into Phonosemantics and redirecting this one might be the start of a solution. — mark ✎ 16:17, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
- Certainly, the article needs work. Overall, however, it is a much better treatment of phonesthesia than we might have feared. I really think you are being a bit harsh with Magnus, dear 126.96.36.199, though I tried to tone down the plug for "Gods of the Word." The fact is that phonesthesia has long been a taboo subject in circles traveled by serious linguists, which has harmed scientific endeavor in this field, creating a situation in which an encyclopedia must make an extra effort to maintain NPOV. I have read that book and really do not think calling it "pop science" is fair or justified, though many 'official' linguists who have their own positions to defend would certainly agree with such a judgment. In this case, the scholarly consensus itself may reflect substantial bias. That is what Magnus' popularization stems from.
- With time, we ought to be able to improve the treatment of this subject in Wikipedia. In my own view, the concept of the phonestheme deserves separate treatment from the many issues of sound symbolism generally. With hopes of further improvement to come in the future, I have at least taken the step of linking to the other article, to which I added a minor item, a couple of (initial) references, and some internal links.
- I may not have enough experience as a wikipedian to fully grasp the point you were making, Mark, about merging some articles but I do concur that reorganizing material now in various different Wikipedia articles would help with the reorganization of this one. Bibliography for this subject is extremely problematic but is something I could help with (although I'm not sure how much detail would be appropriate in a generalist reference like Wikipedia).--Ph7five 14:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
- I wrote the original article in the early days of Wikipedia when standards were not so high, and I'm sorry that people have not found my efforts up to scratch. It was a case of having to start somewhere and someone having to start - I was the one committing time and energy back then so that you'll would have something to complain about! Please let everyone note that my main source was Margaret Magnus' PhD thesis, particularly her extensive literature review, not her more popularly oriented book. Please note also that at the time she, in a letter to me, approved of my use of her material: "cool" was her adjective. (Perhaps she was just being kind?) Magnus has showed that initial word sounds in monomorphemic words are very closely correlated with 'meaning' for that word - e.g. words beginning with /m/ do fall into a very small no of what Lakoff would call "basic level categories", and when compared with other phonemes there is very little overlap of categories represented - well outside what a random (ie arbitrary) distribution would suggest. I've repeated some of her experiments for the whole of the Oxford Concise ed, 10,000's of words, and can confirm this. I have yet to see any serious effort to show how or why her reasoning is flawed, or an attempt at an alternative explaination for the considerable data that she amassed during her research. Meanwhile the University of Trondhiem apparently did not consider Margaret's research to be "junk science" since they granted her a PhD on the basis of it. Please do fix up my poor writing by all means. mahaabaala 20:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
- There is nothing here on the commercial uses of sound symbollism which is a shame. While the academics fiddle the marketing departments of large multinationals have realised that this is a real phenomena and now use the research to design product names and pay big bucks for it. mahaabaala 20:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
I wrote the part on Japanese phonosemantics myself (section "Phenomimes and psychomimes"), and it certainly isn't a copy-paste from anywhere. I agree that I had a hard time finding a place for it in the article. Please feel free to move it where you think it belongs, and edit it if you think it's wrong. Other than that, I agree, the article is not the best around. — AdiJapan ☎ 16:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
- I have in my last few edits pruned a lot of nonsense and I have tried to do away with the uncritical endorsements of Manske as much as possible. I have also put the Cratylus thing right, noting that Socrates conceded that "My first notions of original names are truly wild and ridiculous" after being faced by an overwhelming number of counterexamples. There is still very much to be done. Phonosemantics is an intriguing phenomenon, well worth a good article, as our anonymous editor above points out. I'm not sure if I have the time to do something about it in the near future; I surely hope others can help out and to that end I'll put up a notice at Wikiproject Languages. — mark ✎ 19:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
- Yes my own understanding of the text has come along since I first used that quote. However there is a lot of humour and wisecracking in the dialogue. The more honest accounts admit that they are not sure when Socrates is being serious, or when he is being self-deprecating, or when he is denouncing his own statements. Overwhelming is surely an overstatement. A number of counter examples are offered and show up a possible weakness in the method, but Socrates does not completely abandon it - he steers a middle path between naturalism and convention. You seem to suggest that he takes up an extreme position, when the dialogue in fact concludes nothing and Socrates adopts no position. It is quite possible to elucidate a word based on similar sounding words as Socrates, and his Indian counterpart Yaska do. It does actually work. What you can't do is assume that every word with a similar sound is related. The problem lies in an assumption that everyone seems to make which has two aspects: One that "things" are unitary and not complex, or that something complex has a simple 'essence' to which a word can refer; and two that any given word/sound only has one meaning. Personally I see protestant preocupations with canons and singular truths and ideal languages in this, and find it frustrating that contempoary linguists still seem to see things as having an 'essence' that a word corresponds to even when they think of the word as arbitarily chosen. I think Lakoff has showed the way forward: things are complex and their membership of categories is complex; and names tend to correspond to how we interact with things; and are frequently metonymic, with the name relating to that part of a complex thing which most stands out for us, or with which we interact most strongly. Take this into account and Socrates' method is not only useful, but fun. mahaabaala 20:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Sound symbolism applied in literature[edit]
There is not much in the article at present about sound symbolism (in many cases, before the modern formulation of what sound symbolism is) in literature. Poets especially have made much use of sound symbolism, e.g. Arthur Rimbaud, Stephane Mallarme, etc. I don't plan on discussing this in the article until I have references however. I remember for example a literary critic pointing out that Rimbaud's heavy use of the voiceless velar plosive in the first 5 or so sentences of his prose poem Villes was meant to give the impression of the clashing and dissonant sounds of the modern city. Alexander 007 08:48, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- See John Michell. Euphonics : a poets dictionary of sounds. Frontier Publishing, 1999.
Sound symbolism and synesthesia[edit]
As Ramachandran's co-author, I may not be the most impartial commentator, but I am certainly knowledgable about our attempts to link synesthesia with sound symbolism. I am quite happy to help work on the Relationship with Neuroscience section. I have been working mostly on the synaesthesia page recently, but added some mention of the links with other phenomena, including the kiki/bouba example. Note that this phenomenon was originally noted by Wolfgang Kohler (using the words takete and maluma) and expanded by Lawrence Marks. Subsequent to our 2001 article, follow-up experiments have shown that children as young as 2 1/2 show the "kiki/bouba" effect (Maurer et al., 2006), and that the effect can be replicated in more precise reaction time studies (Westbury, 2005). Edhubbard 23:45, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
What about people who do no speak Indo-european languages? mahaabaala 20:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
The bulk of sound symbolism is largely discredited by the vast majority of linguists. The article should begin with the fact that outside of onomatopoetics, trained linguists don't believe in it. This is junk science for the most part and it should be reported as such.
(The author of the above lines didn't sign them.)
On the contrary, there is a slowly growing body of evidence in favor of it from respected scientific sources. I'll agree that the vast majority of linguists "discredit" it-- but that doesn't mean much to me. The flat earth theory held wide sway at one point too. It would be worthwhile to give readers a sense of how controversial these findings are, and how they contradict established linguistic principles (Saussurian arbitrariness of the sign, etc.). I've done [of course unusable] original research in which participants agreed on the meanings of pseudowords with p<.001. Doesn't seem like junk science to me.
Some possible sources: Brent Berlin's Ethnobiological Classification, Bolinger's "The Sign is Not Arbitrary," Janice Nuckolls' "The Case for Sound Symbolism."
What I think is important is that etymology need not be entirely linear. If language speakers are aware of the sounds of their words along with their meanings, then some sort of Bolinger-style "associative lexical influence" can play into the evolution of the lexicon to develop clusters and phoneme-sememe correlations.
Hope this is helpful/convincing. Starvingpoet 07:48, 24 January 2007 (UTC)starvingpoet
- I think the article does need a (brief) discussion of the fact that most mainstream linguists don't believe in this, though mainly to refute mainstream linguistics rather than to disprove sound symbolism. Linguistics for quite some time (and particularly in the past 50 years or so) has been obsessed with various theories of meaning that just ignore many philosophical issues of how meaning comes into being. Can a gesture or even basic body language have meaning? Can abstract visual art have meaning? Can music have meaning? Much philosophical debate in the past century has tried to classify these things in one way or another, but frequently the issue is a lack of imagination on the part of the theorists about how broad meaning can be. The fact is that things can often mean something (in a vague and nonspecific way) even if you couldn't write a specific lexical meaning down in a dictionary definition. And they can have a vague meaning that is context dependent to varying degrees (as most words/utterances are). If we're willing to accept a broader and more abstract kind of meaning, clearly the use of sounds and phonemes have enough patterns that we can say some of them have this kind of vague meaning.
- Anyhow, the fact that there is little "scientific" evidence for most of this is because cognitive linguistics has been operating since its inception on the principle that such kind of meaning doesn't exist. As Starvingpoet points out, though, slowly but surely some cognitive scientists are catching on (even faster than most linguists).
- But there does need to be a better discussion of how this all relates to mainstream linguistics, as well as a disclaimer pointing out that one could take either view too far (i.e., sounds can have some form of meaning, contrary to popular linguistic theories, but those forms of meaning also aren't going to be some sort of universal and specific meanings valid for all times and places). Just my thoughts....126.96.36.199 13:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
has a redirect to this article, but it isn't mentioned here. someone who is willing to explain that term? --220.127.116.11 21:36, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
sounds phonemes arent arbitrary[edit]
There is a great unknown thinker from Ipolyság Hungary currently Sahy Slovakia Balla Zoltán who attended Prague University in the thirties so he would be close to a hundred if still alive. He was an MD. Unfortunately my uncle stole my copy of his ouevre bequethed by my father who pretty much ridiculed his weird theories of carcinogenesis....something to do with muscle contraction causing the generation of carcinogens ........think of colon spasm and ca of the same....and even more lunatic theories of sound letter ie phoneme and grapheme concordance with meaning. Both knew Hungarian German Czech Latin Greek with a smattering of Russian English French Italian. The book of Balla whom my father considered one of the great intellects and original thinkers he ever met despite his odd theories has impressed me so much that unconsciously over the years I have totally internalised his theories so now I dont know what is his what is mine what I have discovered independently- I do not wish to subvert falsify his theories nor steal from his thunder but what follows is an amalgam of what I heard as verbal suggestion from my father who while he knew more languages than I perfectly he was a professor of silviculture but obviously widely read and cognisand of literatures in half a dozen languages or the book of Balla Zoltán his fellow student in Prague. A shameless and unapologetic proviso. No one in these linguistic wars mentioned the underlying Gestalt or Weltanschauung. Balla and my father myself and the thieving uncle all shared the same world view. But I will not pretend to explicate their views, this is mine. We or rather I do not know if there is a God, but we err with Pascal. I think that there is order in the Universe though it might be hard to discern. Newton Mendeleyev and Darwin agreed though for superficial what we call contemptously scientism they destroyed old shibboleths but their universe is more ordered than previously. So we look for connexion context structure meaning form rather than meaningless random chaos whether in physics medicine forestry musicology or finally in linguistics. This of course gets heavy as chaos itself is self replicating non random and self organising whether by fractals or apoptosis. I cannot obviously get into cosmology evolution or even the periodic table. Sorry for all those on the scientism side even the elements are not random but fall into a beautiful periodic table. People who deny the meaning of vocables are akin to petrologists who might deny the existence of elements in rocks.
We will start with simple examples. i or the letter or grapheme i or
the sound i actually MEANS small pointed point thin needle. Hungarian itt means here ott means there itt ott here there the sound i means small pointed local here whereas ott with o means round far distant circular. No history of languages suggests any connexion between Hungarian and Latin yet the LATIN OF COURSE IS HIC and huc ubi or in other languages tam la da there etc. Here and ici both show the i. The simple single phoneme explication gets extraordinarily complex, take the Hungarian levél which means both leaf and letter and the French lettre and feuille and the Latin littera and folio and the Greek phyllis transposing the L AND THE F. As my knowledge of other languages is shaky and limited I have to stop there. Levél leaf feuille folio phyllis. While it is remotely possible that a nearctic language existed before the genesis of the IndoEuropean and FinnoUgric language families from which arose the L.F or F.L cluster or morpheme it is much more plausible that these hominids imitated the idea with their tongue and sound produced the ideas involved. F means light flighty frothy fair smoke like thin evanescent slight flimsy weak frilly, L of course means long thin linear flat lip flip lilting lily... more of these later.... So l.f or f.l actually means a flat weak object, a leaf a folio a feuille. To poets this of course is a joke, they always knew this and the trouveres troubadours who found the mot juste found exactly this, the phonological correlate of image thought and idea even of emotion. Now to our Bard's a rose by any other naME WOULD SMELL AS SWEET. wHICH OF COURSE IS Nonsense and is an example of authorial fallacy. Shakespeare isnt enunciating a general law of linguistics but is demonstrating the distress of Juliet as to why Romeo has to be the enemys son, ie he could be called Joe Bloe or rather Giovanni Bruni say. Then of course we would have no play by those names. So let us follow the techniques of linguistics and compare doublets. Take ROSE actually MEANS a fragrant round circular beautiful red flower. R is red. O is round circular perfect beautiful. S is odoriferous smelly or Z of course. So a rose by any other name of course wouldnt be a rose. Now take lily. We already know that L is linear long thin but it is also lilac blue white flat thin. i is of course pointed pin peak. So lily is a delightful thin long stemmed linear flower usually white blue or lilac.
Rose is a round sweet smelling red beautiful flower. The actual name and the graphemes say so.
l is a long linear letter. o is circular perfect round rolling spherical
That should be all for now. There are a myriad other examples we havent even scratched the surface. The poets have already delved into the depths.
littera and Greek phyllis transposing the L and F
but back to Cratylus de Saussure and Balla.
i is by its sound but also graphemic feature ie single dot means point small here
l is obviously long thin flat platte plate lip line linear in sound and writing
o is round perfect circular both in shape and lip muscular contour
ball globe bubble boule lob bulge need we go on?
The obvious glaring fact that the vast majority of words in any language cannot be so simply analysed need not detain or discourage us for it is not language which is meaningless random noise and chance script but that our understanding is rudimentary. A monkey doesnt comprehend embryology a dog evolution nor a crow geomorphology, which of course doesnt mean that they are wrong or unreal.
There is no pseudoscience here, you can either observe the same phenomena or not. If they are unreal irrational or meaningless then they are drivel, if on the other hand they are repeatedly observable and systematic then there is a real phenomenon first to be observed analysed proven or disproven finally to be incorporated into genuine knowledge.
As a minor afterthought zoologists have recorded and analysed the distress calls of mammals and birds and found the same pattern of descending ascending sounds notes and rhythms to signal grief joy distress alarm and reassurance.
And the same or similar musical intervals in dirges or funeral masses and lugubrious music of Mozart or Beethowen or genuine folksongs. So grief transcends not only languages but species.
And phonetic meaning languages.
Alexander Sándor Jablánczy firstname.lastname@example.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.108.40.206 (talk) 08:43, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
This article is very POV. Given that languages often have many, many words (English at around a million), a much lesser number of phonemes, and there are only so many concepts to express, it's not surprizing at all that couincidences will be found. House, home, and hut mean the same. So what? Home, how, and hair do not. Homophones are a fabulous counterexample. 126.96.36.199 (talk) 22:08, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
I was going to go the opposite direction and point out contrary to house, home, hut and hovel are abode, dwelling, demesne and residence. Theo in Greek and Teo in meso-American languages have similar sounds and identical meanings, but outside of "Gods from Outer Space" types, I don't think anyone thinks that more than a coincidence. And much of what is used as evidence here seems to fall into the same category of either cherry picking examples or simple coincidence. Or a bit of both. 22.214.171.124 (talk) 19:31, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Sound symbolism used in advertising[edit]
I certainly don't have the expertise to write about this, but if someone else does that would be great. I heard about a company, I think called Gap, that uses sound symbolism to come up with names for products. Most significantly if I remember correctly they came up with Dasani, the water brand from Coca Cola company. They have study groups that they give nonsense words to ask how it makes them feel, and there does seem to be a definite consensus about what words mean, for example if words sound like they describe something big or something small or something smart. I don't remember if this is cross-linguistic, which would be very significant, or if it is based on knowledge of other words (like teeny is smaller than tiny, so words with the first vowel sound smaller than with the second). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 04:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
- True, we need to add sth about advertising and companies. I recently edited Altria to add this (addition in bold):
- Philip Morris completed its rebranding to Altria Group... The name "Altria" is claimed to come from the Latin word for "high" and was part of a trend of companies rebranding to names that previously did not exist, Accenture and Verizon being notable examples,[1] though linguist Steven Pinker suggests that in fact the name is an "egregious example" of phonesthesia - with the company attempting to "switch its image from bad people who sell addictive carcinogens to a place or state marked by altruism and other lofty values".[2]
- Maybe I'll add it here... but please, it'd be great if others could expand the section. Malick78 (talk) 11:24, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
- Errrrr, what exactly does the Altria example have to do with sound symbolism?! The association of "Altria" with "altruism", even if perhaps not fully conscious in everybody who makes it, is based on the arbitrary meaning of "altruism", not any of the sounds/phonemes in "Altria". I think this example is plain wrong. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:23, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Hmm, I think Florian has a point, although I fear I don't quite get it. Pinker's example seems perfect to me... the epitome of egregiousness, even...
however, referring to phonesthesia and not to sound symbolism, :-(((
Word-initial "altr-" is basically a hapax in English, at least for those of us who do not use "altricial" (completely different root) all that often. Thus, the coinage of "Altria" is especially felicitous (from the Philip Morris point of view) because it essentially creates an alliterative phonestheme with two or three members: "altruism" (with its derivatives), possibly "altricious," and the new brandname. Thus, I gratefully take Florian's point as evidence that we have created a problem in simply redirecting "phonesthesia" to "sound symbolism." I'm not happy about this because it would seem to open up a Wikipedian wormcan but -- at least to my mind -- it shows there is work cut out for us. I would like to hear others' opinions. - phi (talk) 15:05, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- I don't think altr- can be analysed as a phonestheme. It may not be a morpheme, but there is no basis of words starting in altr- with somehow similar or related seeming meanings to analyse it as a phonestheme, either. You say altr- is basically a hapax, and this demolishes your own point because a hapax cannot be a phonestheme virtually by definition if you consider the way phonesthemes are determined. There is simply no basis to associate anything in the way of even the vaguest meaning with an isolated singleton. You'd need at least two words with the supposed phonestheme. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 22:22, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- Moreover, I think altr- is too complex for a typical phonestheme. If you consider the examples given in the article, most of them are single phonemes or groups of two consonants, i. e., less than a syllable, even. I'd describe Altria simply as a more or less subtle allusion to the word altruism, evoking a positive, friendly, "humanistic" air. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 22:31, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- Hmm, I think Florian has a point, although I fear I don't quite get it. Pinker's example seems perfect to me... the epitome of egregiousness, even...
- Errrrr, what exactly does the Altria example have to do with sound symbolism?! The association of "Altria" with "altruism", even if perhaps not fully conscious in everybody who makes it, is based on the arbitrary meaning of "altruism", not any of the sounds/phonemes in "Altria". I think this example is plain wrong. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:23, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
"Relationship with nature" Section[edit]
The "Relationship with nature" section looks like someone's pet theory and, frankly, metaphysical tosh.
Thirteenangrymen (talk) 09:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
- ^ "Altria Director Discusses Rebranding Company, CNNfn". Finance Wire. November 11, 2003.
- ^ Pinker, Steven (2007). "The Stuff of Thought". Penguin Books. p. 304.


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