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My noetic bounce is about human miscellany — history, philosophy, language. Naturally, the bounce is to suggest a relaxed perspective on ball games, also when the name is tee ball or smaller, thus to increase probability for slip or slide. It does not take a guru, to bounce. The site has a linguistic mirror, Moja noetyczna piŁeczka.

BOGEYMAN IN THE TONGUE BOX

A computer program is now able to predict psychosis simply by observing language patterns, and with 100 percent success. Humans have been only 79 percent successful with that, says a report by RT News, an autonomous nonprofit by “TV-Novosti”. There is also news from America.

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COMMON SENSE

Thomas Paine wrote his Common Sense to talk Americans into independence. He did pretty well. Things would not be going as well with the American Heritage dictionary, to derive common sense from “common feelings of humanity”: Mr. Paine, though erudite, never chanced to persuade king George into trying American shoes.

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The absolutely basics about the USA

Washington state got its name after George Washington, the first American president. The state is the only American state named after a president.

George Washington remains a very prominent figure. He fought for American freedom in the Revolutionary War against England. He was President in years 1789-1797, after the War.

Language form

We always need to know the language and the context, to see what the language form denotes: a picture of a cat is not a cat.

The American bald eagle

Not everyone was happy with the bald eagle as a national symbol. Benjamin Franklin wrote in one of his letters,

For my own part. I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country.

Colors can help read and learn

Some verb forms can work as head verbs as well as auxiliaries. Our head verbs can head verb phrases. They tell the activity or faculty. Auxiliaries always require another verb. We can use a simple color code, to tell head verbs from auxiliaries easy.

1.2. Mind practice

In the beginning, we might feel it is really an effort to “discipline” ourselves and consciously direct thinking. It is essential that we try. “Saying” or “writing” in our thoughts before we say or write out can make our thinking and speaking habits stronger.

Grammar is always a project

To manage own language skill, we need own brain logic. For speech and language, this logic produces finite sets as projects, not as programs.

Feelings!

Human brains need to be live structures for grammar, and these have simultaneous processes. When we use the Present Simple, our paths for the Perfect Progressive for example do not become “switched off”. Are there really “stative verbs”?

Grammar – Why think about space?

Most children spatialize. The place may not be specified, a child yet would reckon there has to be a place for a thing to happen at all. Spatialization remains natural, common and sane sense, when we are grown up. Association between time and place belongs with human minds.

American English ― where from?

Mr. Trawick-Smith makes an interesting point: we might think about the British as “talking American”, as well.

Generative and Universal Grammar: frequently asked questions

Is there literally a universal grammar, to learn any language of choice? Are there actually Language Acquisition Devices in human brains? Could language be a result of genetic mutation? Is language explainable in terms of principles and neural models? What is spatialization and is it universal?

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