Some deep thoughts are going on at the Palace.
The Royal Family is tweeting about what a perfect alphabet would look like, and how far the English alphabet varies from this ideal. And are there any redundant letters?
Hedvig, Ben, and Daniel are here to help on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Show notes
Learning new vocabulary during deep sleep — ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190131113837.htm
Implicit Vocabulary Learning during Sleep Is Bound to Slow-Wave Peaks: Current Biology
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31672-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982218316725%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? | NYT Magazine
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html
Language Log | We are bemused
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=41645
the history of the letter C | the evolving ultrasaurus
https://www.ultrasaurus.com/2003/08/the-history-of-the-letter-c/
Ask a Linguist: Why did they invent the letter C, when it makes the sounds of K and S?
https://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/message-details1.cfm?AsklingID=200300228
An answer from Larry Trask
https://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/message-details1.cfm?asklingid=200300863
More from Larry Trask
https://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/message-details1.cfm?asklingid=200314948
THE HISTORY OF LETTER G – Rodrigo Peñaloza – Medium
https://medium.com/@milesmithrae/the-history-of-letter-g-rodrigo-pe%C3%B1aloza-2009-3fc9fc90e154
g | History, Etymology, & Pronunciation | Britannica.com
https://www.britannica.com/topic/G-letter
What language has the most phonetic alphabet, and which language has the most unphonetic alphabet (besides English)? – Quora
https://www.quora.com/What-language-has-the-most-phonetic-alphabet-and-which-language-has-the-most-unphonetic-alphabet-besides-English
‘Presidential harassment’: Trump lashes out as inquiries step up
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/presidential-harassment-trump-lashes-out-as-inquiries-step-up-20190208-p50wfa.html
Emojipedia: Pinching Hand Emoji
https://emojipedia.org/pinching-hand/
Google open-sources ClusterFuzz, a tool that has uncovered 16,000 bugs in Chrome | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/07/google-open-sources-clusterfuzz-a-tool-that-has-uncovered-16000-bugs-in-chrome/
15 minute guide to fuzzing
https://www.mwrinfosecurity.com/our-thinking/15-minute-guide-to-fuzzing/
Liberal Democrats Formally Call for a ‘Green New Deal,’ Giving Substance to a Rallying Cry
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/climate/green-new-deal.html
Green New Deal Resolution
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/604-green-new-deal-resolution/e0c468643280097e630e/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
Green New Deal Ideas Already Being Tried in U.S. | Time
http://time.com/5524167/green-new-deal-proposal-congress/
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/691997301/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-releases-green-new-deal-outline
With the Green New Deal, Democrats Present a Radical Proposition for Combatting Climate Change | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/with-the-green-new-deal-democrats-present-a-radical-proposition-for-combatting-climate-change
A ‘Green New Deal’ sounds like pie in the sky. But we need it. – The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-green-new-deal-sounds-like-pie-in-the-sky-but-we-need-it/2019/02/07/8cc891c4-2b1b-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html
Vox Sentences: The Green New Deal gets real – Vox
https://www.vox.com/vox-sentences/2019/2/7/18216168/green-new-deal-italy-france-ambassador
No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium
https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f
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