#iarichards — Public Fediverse posts

With a pedalogical view, Maybe there's a way to re-work BeReal posts? If people are doing it, is there a way to re-use the photos on the fediverse,? to sort of recap and make a diary? #IARichards emphasized writing and reading as a way to "Look, and Look Again." and how that was important for attention. I should probably iteratively revisit my Mastodon posts by grouping them into a Hubzilla wiki, or Dreamwidth journal. Maybe working BeReal photos into Neocities pages could be educational?

The Lawrence Wittner article that mentioned Norman Cousins and the United World Federalists brought to mind _Nations and Peace_ a Basic English book by I.A. Richards and a United Federalist

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74399/page/n153/mode/2up?view=theater

#IARichards #NationsAndPeace #UnitedWorldFederalists #WorldGovernment

We need an UP: United Peoples
that can work
better than UN: United Nations....

#IARichards #NationsAndPeace

https://diasp.org/posts/20326367

#SylviaJ #DiasporasSylviaJ

> Richards made another system,
a step up from Basic. That is Every Man's English.
> Every Man's English makes use of looser language rules and additions to the 850 words.

https://ryotasan.jugem.jp/?eid=158

#OgdensBasicEnglish #EveryMansEnglish #IARichardsBasicEnglish #BasicEnglish850 #IARichards #CKOgden

> They wandered up and down and to and fro. They went everywhere but out of the wood and were found in the morning (there was a morning!) under a heap of leaves. The story says that pitying birds buried them so. This seems a pretty fancy. I find it more likely that they collected leaves themselves and perished through unregulated interest in the variety of foliation...
#BabesInTheWood #CultOfInformation #UnRegulatedInterest #FactsAndRelevance #IARichards

> ... we do not develop a mind by giving it more facts but by helping it to judge relevance. It is relevance which tells us which meanings belong with which, and in what configurations, for a valid interpretation. The way to strengthen a sense of relevance is by exercising it with simpler problems rather than by adding elaborations.
pp 101-102 of _ #SpeculativeInstruments _ #ResponsibilitiesInTeachingEnglish
#IARichards #EP3Wisdom 1955 book following up on 1945's _English Through Pictures_

From 1932, C.K. Ogden's little book _Opposition: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis_ with an introduction by I.A. Richards. I keep thinking I should give the diagrams some thought and attention. It will be good to work toward an understanding of the diagrams and notation on page 16 of the book.

#CKOgden #OgdensOpposition #IARichards #IaR #DiagramOfOpposition

GDM (Grade Direct Method)'s developer I.A. Richards's _Practical Criticism_ got me interested in Confucius's Sincerity.

#IARichards #SinceritySmell #Confucius #PracticalCriticims #WorthyOfContemplation #MeditationWorthy

'The rectifying of the mind is realized when the thoughts are made sincere.' And the thoughts are sincere, when no self-deception is allowed, and we move without effort to what is right and wrong, 'as we love what is beautiful, and as we dislike a bad smell'

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3100/pg3100-images.html

#Sincerity #BadSmellSincerity #JamesLegge #Confucius #TheGreatLearning from #IARichards #PracticalCriticism p272 came to mind with #IgnazSemmelweis battling cadaver smells on #DoctorsHands

Bill Templer keeps me focussed on simplicity:

.> This is a paper about the need for a fundamental rethink of what we are doing. Especially for the many of us teaching English as an international language (EIL) to non-elite students on the myriad peripheries. It argues for flexibly re-exploring in depth the simplified auxiliary language BASIC developed by C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and their associates, along with Richard's amplified version Every Man's English, attuned to the needs of the mass teaching and learning of EIL today.

Bill Templer keeps me focussed on simplicity:

.> This is a paper about the need for a fundamental rethink of what we are doing. Especially for the many of us teaching English as an international language (EIL) to non-elite students on the myriad peripheries. It argues for flexibly re-exploring in depth the simplified auxiliary language BASIC developed by C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and their associates, along with Richard's amplified version Every Man's English, attuned to the needs of the mass teaching and learning of EIL today.

Bill Templer keeps me focussed on simplicity:

.> This is a paper about the need for a fundamental rethink of what we are doing. Especially for the many of us teaching English as an international language (EIL) to non-elite students on the myriad peripheries. It argues for flexibly re-exploring in depth the simplified auxiliary language BASIC developed by C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and their associates, along with Richard's amplified version Every Man's English, attuned to the needs of the mass teaching and learning of EIL today.

Bill Templer keeps me focussed on simplicity:

.> This is a paper about the need for a fundamental rethink of what we are doing. Especially for the many of us teaching English as an international language (EIL) to non-elite students on the myriad peripheries. It argues for flexibly re-exploring in depth the simplified auxiliary language BASIC developed by C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and their associates, along with Richard's amplified version Every Man's English, attuned to the needs of the mass teaching and learning of EIL today.

Bill Templer keeps me focussed on simplicity:

.> This is a paper about the need for a fundamental rethink of what we are doing. Especially for the many of us teaching English as an international language (EIL) to non-elite students on the myriad peripheries. It argues for flexibly re-exploring in depth the simplified auxiliary language BASIC developed by C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and their associates, along with Richard's amplified version Every Man's English, attuned to the needs of the mass teaching and learning of EIL today.

After re-learning some trigonometry (if it was ever more than half-learnt) I can make circular memes with text now. I don't have a text-to-arc procedure yet but I can align text along tangents which I'll need for another meme-idea. All this should be getting me closer to Florence Nightingale's #RoseDiagram. I want to call the #FlowerPlots though. The text is from #IARichards #TheoryOfComprehending essay in the book #SpeculativeInstruments.

"Behaviour is falling down the steps,
Activity is walking up the steps."

#IARichards quoting somebody else, maybe CKOgden.

All the AISalami discussion has me thinking it doesn't matter how complicated the steps are, there is no choice of response involved. Without birth and living and death in the real organic world, we should put special quotes, "t" for "terminology" quotes around "learning" and "understading" and even "language" when talking about machine-generated stuff.

This article will help emphasize The Thumb is a special thing in English, it's not just any finger like the ring finger 薬指 or pointer finger 人差し指 (people stabbing finger!?!?!笑) it #TheThumb not thrown in with the other Yubi指 fingers like the #親指 Parent Finger. Thanks to the Fediverse I can stress the uniqueness of the thumb with #TheOnion along with the Panda.

https://www.theonion.com/dolphins-evolve-opposable-thumbs-1819565718

/HT @flexghost
#BeginningEnglish #LearningAThe #EP #EnglishThroughPictures #IARichards #Japanese #Fingers

Principles for Beginning Language Learning
入門期における外国語教育の原理, 原則

Ogden's Basic English, a 850-word system
オグデン・ベシック・イングリッシュ, 850語のシステム

I teach English with the #GradedDirectMethod of #IARichards. He was developing a #PictorialNotation for leaning foreign languages with his #LanguageThroughPictures books starting with #EnglishThroughPictures in 1945. Learners can narrate sequences of their drawings with English sentences using 3 tenses of take, put, and give combined with off, on, to, in, and from. These basic constructs are widely useful. There must be an equivalent approach to learn programming.
https://www.gdm-japan.net/introduction/gdm-history/

> Richards divided the class into three groups. Each group was asked to write a paragraph describing language. However, Richards provided each group with its first sentence.

Group A had to begin with “Language is like a tree”;
Group B with
“Language is like a river”;
Group C with
“Language is like a building.”...

Our discussion centered on how metaphors control what we say, and to what extent what we say controls what we see.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly with #IaRichards on #MetaphorControl

“Large numbers of people will learn English as a foreign language in the 21st century, and they will need teachers, dictionaries and grammar books. But will they continue to look towards the native speaker for authoritative norms of usage?”
- https://www.elgazette.com/david-graddol-the-man-who-saw-the-future-of-english/

#EFL #DavidGraddol #EnglishNext #NativeSpeakers #EPGDM #OgdensBasicEnglish #IaR #IaRichards #FutureOfEnglish