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among them are two great negro track stars mal whitfield and harrison dillard who got tumultuous receptions in tours of africa and south america olympic diving champion maj sammy lee an army doctor of korean parentage was similarly hailed when he performed in the land of his ancestors still another goodwill athlete is the reverend robert richards the preacher who won the olympic pole vault title in 1952 the athletes won friendship for the united states by being free and easy mixers lecturing and coaching native youngsters wherever they went where music broke the ice a sample of how exporting our culture can assist in cementing relations with our allies was vividly demonstrated in iceland early this year since the establishment of united states bases on this key outpost of atlantic defense russia and the local communists have conducted a continuous propaganda offensive stirring hatred of american troops stationed there the soviets strengthened their campaign with a parade of artists and intellectuals who toured the island to acquaint the population with russian culture united states iceland relations were at their lowest when anta sent famed violinist isaac stern and pianist ervin laszlo on concert tours highlighting the works of american composers iceland s hearts were thawed relations have been less frigid since united states minister to iceland john j muccio announced the impact of the recitals upon the icelandic people was the greatest of any to date from the milwaukee journal of june 12 1955 united states cultural commandos abroad an american cultural counteroffensive quietly and somewhat timidly launched by the united states state department in cooperation with private groups is gathering worldwide momentum for too long many observers feel the russians have paraded their ballet troupes theatrical companies musicians and athletes over the face of the world virtually unchallenged in their claims of superiority to the culture of the decadent capitalist world recently the red chinese have elbowed into the act with the successful paris run of a peiping theatrical troupe which had never before performed outside china the communists are working hard to perpetuate the myth widespread among many otherwise sophisticated europeans and asians that the united states is a nation of gadgetmakers clever in turning out bathtubs in overdecorated automobiles but barbarians in their indifference to the finer products of the mind and spirit now at last the united states is striking back with what amounts to exploratory raids by a few cultural commandos the money so far assigned to these operations is petty cash by comparison with outlays for military and economic programs abroad but it has produced results little short of amazing in order to conduct the program through private channels insofar as possible the state department has been working with the american national theater and academy a nonprofit organization headquartered in new york the anta acts as agent selecting the best talent to send abroad and arranging the overseas bookings through its international exchange program to get the facts about the new american cultural export program milwaukee journal bureau men in washington and new york talked to state department officials and personnel of the american national theater and academy their stories appear below you can read the rest at the link uncategorized cold war history an unusual vowel contrast 1 comment posted by nydwracu on august 27 2016 geoff lindsey writes i do think that the official ipa chart is crowded with symbols which exist not so much for good acoustic or linguistic reasons as to fill the slots implied by its tongue space framework for instance i m not sure that languages ever contrast ɨ and ɯ the unrounded close non front vowel of languages like turkish and vietnamese is sometimes transcribed as ɯ and sometimes as ɨ a while ago i downloaded phoible s database since they don t have a search function on the site searching the database for inventories from the same source that contain both ɨ and ɯ i get apatani ra bora saphon kenyang ph kilba gm kod̩agu ra matses ph matsés saphon miraña saphon mishmi ra nimboran upsid sedik ph sema ra southern ute ph tangkul naga ra wayana saphon this is of course inconclusive since the databases phoible draws from are unreliable the apatani vowel inventory sourced from ra in phoible differs wildly from the more usual one given in this paper however this paywalled study claims that bora really does have this contrast sil s grammar of kenyang claims that the language contrasts all of ɨ ɯ u which is an even stronger example than nimboran the standard example of a language with such a contrast nimboran has a six vowel system with no rounded vowels as does matses uncategorized linguistics the dravidian australian connection 6 comments posted by nydwracu on august 4 2016 the indigenous languages of australia have striking similarities in their phoneme inventories most have no fricatives and none as far as i know have sibilants australian languages tend to have retroflexes one exception is bandjalang which has only 12 consonants palatals contrastive dentals and alveolars and several laterals and rhotics gasser and bowern 2013 provide a chart of a standard average australian phoneme inventory individual languages of course diverge from this pattern some have a voicing contrast in plosives although this may really be a gemination contrast gasser and bowern report that 59 of languages with a plosive voicing contrast collapse it initially cf the proto basque fortis lenis contrast in plosives this has become a voicing contrast but fortis consonants could not appear word initially and lenis consonants could not appear word finally over half have contrastive vowel length but there is much less difference across inventories in australia than in most parts of the world for example guugu yimidhirr the source of the english word kangaroo differs only in having only one lateral the apico alveolar l and a length contrast in its vowels dyirbal the language whose noun class system inspired the title of george lakoff s women fire and dangerous things is somewhat more divergent its only retroflex consonant is the flap ɽ its only lateral is the apico alveolar l and its only laminal consonant series is palatal what happens if we compare standard average australian to tamil the vowel inventory of tamil differs significantly from that of saa tamil has the mid vowels e o the diphthongs ai au and a length contrast in monophthongs but the underlying consonant inventory is almost identical the only significant differences are in the liquids the rhotics are both retroflex and tamil has fewer laterals than saa looking to modern languages to try to gain information on ancient patterns is of course untenable as serious methodology but it s at least suggestive here s proto dravidian the velar nasal present in all australian languages in gasser and bowern s sample may not have been phonemic in proto dravidian but the general similarity is clear i know of no other non australian language family that so closely follows the typical australian language pattern so although i have no suggestion as to the causal relation here no hypothetical scenario of ancient contact between india and australia that could have spread this pattern from one place to the other i suspect that one exists interestingly a ban on word initial retroflexes is common among australian languages and proto dravidian like some languages of western australia although i don t know when this restriction developed banned all apicals from word initial position uncategorized linguistics national ist security 5 comments posted by nydwracu on july 7 2016 one of the primary goals of the islamic state and other radical islamist groups is to drive a wedge between sunni muslims and the wider world to fuel alienation as a recruiting tool source there are a lot of people saying this and none of them bother to back it up but that doesn t mean it can t be radicalizing minorities is one of the most common ways of disrupting a foreign country the us with the catholics in poland the us with everyone in yugoslavia the us with chechens in russia russia with abkhazians and ossetes in georgia the us with uyghurs and tibetans in china the us with gays in russia and its allies the british empire and the us with beng um rohingya in burma lord only knows who s backing all the other ethnic separatists in burma and how did casa pound end up involved with the knla the ussr with the blacks jews and finns yes really in the us the us with the hmong in indochina hence hmong refugees the nazis with ethnic minorities in the ussr libya under gaddafi tried with the maori in new zealand but it didn t work the us will try with the koreans in japan if it ever loses control but it won t work russia with the red tribe in the us as i ve said before i bet the reason there are so many muslims in france is that someone somewhere went gee france has a pretty big sphere of influence and could conceivably become a significant power i e threat and installed a kill switch while they still could which could explain both the migrant crisis as a whole and the us alliance with saudi arabia iran unlike ksa has a population that could easily reach first world levels of prosperity but most muslims are sunni and ksa s entire shtick is using sunni radicalism as a kill switch so if you want to tile a country with kill switches of course usg thought it could work with both khomeini and the taliban and look how they turned out and notice that the us isn t taking in many muslim refugees and the ones it does take are either backup politicians and their families fethullah gülen ruslan tsarni seddique mateen or us proxy forces somalis because mass immigration in the us isn t about installing a kill switch kill switches are contingency plans they aren t designed to be used immediately which is one of the reasons why certain elements within these european countries are willing to cooperate with the plans to install kill switches and that s why nationalism is not and will not within the foreseeable future be outdated it s not about prejudice it s about national security if there were no muslims in the west the west wouldn t have to worry about radicalized muslims uncategorized caste war history mass immigration what would benedict anderson say 3 comments posted by nydwracu on july 7 2016 first there s the european court of justice the so called supreme court of the eu of the 37 members listed on its site six studied and or taught in the united states that s 16 including the president of the court we count four harvard degrees and a harvard visiting scholar two fulbright scholars several more studied at cambridge or oxford and i would say nearly half studied outside of their country of origin president of the court koen lenaerts was a fulbright scholar and has an llb from harvard as well as a master of public administration from harvard s john f kennedy school of government the gold standard signifier for a true blue usg man the ecj was established in 1952 then there s the federal constitutional court of germany established in 1951 of the 16 members of this court five studied and or taught in the united states that s 31 of the country s supreme court do we notice harvard jfk fingerprints here of course jfk harvard law yale university of michigan a number of the usual suspects are implicated the constitutional court of austria in contrast does not have a single sitting friend or alumnae sic of harvard or yale not one out of 14 members the president of this court studied in graz and salzburg not even making it to vienna the old cosmopolitan imperial capital we note three instances of foreign influence new york university the college d europe in belgium and the university of limerick in ireland a grand total of 7 who studied or taught in the united states less than half of the ecj and less than a quarter of germany s supreme court the one infringement is nyu not jfk or yale law which might make the one infringement a trump tier heresy source relevant uncategorized benedict anderson mandarinate progressivism intervocalic fortition 1 comment posted by nydwracu on july 7 2016 was mentioned in xkcd but this has actually happened blust s compilation of highly unusual sound changes includes intervocalic fortition of v j g in kiput intervocalic devoicing of g also occurred in berawan which also reflects b as k a possible explanation of both of these processes is here berawan b β ɣ g ɣ ɣ x k kiput j d leaving j to only appear intervocalically g ɣ and unconditional devoicing of the voiced fricatives and affricate this doesn t explain the intervocalic fortition of w y however they remained approximants at least word finally a dialect of american english influenced by pennsylvania dutch has devoicing of plosives not only in coda position but also in onset position in word internal unstressed syllables starostin claims occasional intervocalic devoicing for dongxiang and bonan are there any instances of intervocalic fortition that aren t devoicing kiput glide frication is probably an example and berawan again has conditioned gemination of intervocalic plosives long terawan examples such as batu bittoh stone kutu kuttoh head louse qatay atay liver putiq puté white laki lakkéh man male siku sikkoh elbow likud likon back anat tukud tukon prop support bana binneh husband tina tinneh mother or tanaq tana earth show an unusual condition for the genesis of geminate consonants the onset of an open final syllable was geminated although the data are more abbreviated an identical change appears to be reflected in all berawan dialects note that neither the syllable type nor its position are sufficient in themselves to predict gemination as the consonant onsets of open penultimate syllables or of closed final syllables remain unaffected in citation forms stress is generally final in all dialects of berawan but this is true whether the final syllable is open or closed what linguistic factor if any might drive consonant onsets to geminate only if they initiate an open final syllable thus remains very puzzling doesn t italian have sporadic intervocalic gemination uncategorized linguistics in defense of all male spaces 9 comments posted by nydwracu on july 4 2016 originally posted as a comment here the progressive model of normie gender relations is incomplete on the one hand it s true that under normie gender relations men lead and women follow but on the other hand it s also true that men are supposed to for example open doors for women nobody believes that women can t open doors so why are men supposed to do it for them you could say that it s because of the patriarchy men want women to be weak and dependent on men but then you re saying that 51 of the population have no agency in order to bolster a theory that can explain these two things but...