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  1. Jon Cooper: "If ICE agents are supposed to be protecting me from undocumented immigrants, why do I feel more afraid of them than of any immigrant I have ever met?"
    #criminality #FearMerchants #DomesticTerrorists #GoodQuestion #politics

  2. "The human potential for incredibly precise classifications has been demonstrated in multiple arenas; why then do we settle for a paucity of classifications when it comes to gender?"
    J. Halberstam in "Female Masculinities", 1998
    #gender #goodquestion #queertheory

  3. #That's a #GoodQuestion...

    We #LikeDriving and #SpaceKarenX's #TerribleCars can't even #DriveThemselves... #Not without #KillingEveryone...

    #MyPersonalChef will be #Required to:

    #MakeBiscuits; and,
    #IceCream; and,
    #BaconSammidges...

    #ApplyWithin... #OrNot...

    #IT won't #AffectTheOutcome...

    We can #Still: #CrackOpen the #GoodScotch...

    🧙:Polymaths:​​🤖:wolfparty:​🤖:Polymaths:​​🧙 | :fediverse:​🦹🍨​🦄​🍨🦹:fediverse:

  4. @Chancerubbage

    But it's an empirical question, and the answer could very well be yes despite the above!

    (3/3)

    #ToneLanguage #SpeechPerception #GoodQuestion

  5. @Chancerubbage

    1. Music is as much a part of culture in areas with tone languages as elsewhere.
    2. Pitch is used in non-tone languages for lots of stuff (emphasis, enumerating lists, distinguishing statements from questions, etc), so maybe speakers of any language would have comparable effects of such distractors.
    3. Whisper studies (and others) suggest that listeners have plenty of cues besides pitch to distinguish different tones.

    (2/3)

    #ToneLanguage #SpeechPerception #GoodQuestion

  6. @Chancerubbage

    First, I have no idea - that's a great question. However, here are some thoughts that lead me to guess that they'd have no problem (when compared to speakers of non-tone languages):

    (1/3)

    #ToneLanguage #SpeechPerception #GoodQuestion

  7. Venn Me This

    "I am looking for academic, semi-academic, not academic at all conferences at the intersection of two different fields or two different subjects."

    In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant is seeking Interesting Conferences At the Intersections.

    ask.metafilter.com/376102

    #conferences #crossover #GoodQuestion #interesting #intersections

  8. Venn Me This

    "I am looking for academic, semi-academic, not academic at all conferences at the intersection of two different fields or two different subjects."

    In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant is seeking Interesting Conferences At the Intersections.

    ask.metafilter.com/376102

    #conferences #crossover #GoodQuestion #interesting #intersections

  9. Venn Me This

    "I am looking for academic, semi-academic, not academic at all conferences at the intersection of two different fields or two different subjects."

    In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant is seeking Interesting Conferences At the Intersections.

    ask.metafilter.com/376102

    #conferences #crossover #GoodQuestion #interesting #intersections

  10. Venn Me This

    "I am looking for academic, semi-academic, not academic at all conferences at the intersection of two different fields or two different subjects."

    In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant is seeking Interesting Conferences At the Intersections.

    ask.metafilter.com/376102

    #conferences #crossover #GoodQuestion #interesting #intersections

  11. Venn Me This

    "I am looking for academic, semi-academic, not academic at all conferences at the intersection of two different fields or two different subjects."

    In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant is seeking Interesting Conferences At the Intersections.

    ask.metafilter.com/376102

    #conferences #crossover #GoodQuestion #interesting #intersections