have half a piece of sushi

Next on the queue is some pointers on color.  This may seem like the blind leading the blind, because it is, but I’ve put together a few tips that help me think about color. 

So Minnesotans showed the fuck up tonight (like we do) - thousands in the street protesting tr*mp’s latest executive disorders. And guess what happened? The old proverb “What if an emergency vehicle needs to get where it’s going” came to life, and the sea went silent and parted to allow it through (swiftly…literally the truck was going about as fast as, if not faster than, it would have been if there had been cars it needed to go around).

Please share this. This was a rare occurrence where an emergency vehicle needed to go through the route of a protest, when usually they have predetermined alternative routes, and it went completely fine. Also for the love of god, have more respect for firefighters/EMTs…they know how to do their jobs. They’re ready for anything, including working around protests.

Vessels designed specifically for screaming

There’s a lot of evidence that animals have regional accents. Both birds and sperm whales in fact to vocalise differently depending on where they grew up.

As for felines themselves, there’s an ongoing study underway on at Lund University precisely about this.

As a phonologist who has watched entirely too many cat videos on the internet, I can confirm that cats of differing countries do have differentiated accents in their cries. Felines in England tend to have shorter, lower “mow” whereas Japanese cats do tend to make glides into high vowels, and are sustained longer, such as the ubiqutous use of “nyaaaan” in Japanese onomatopoeia.

And “meows” are commonly around the same frequencies as human kids voices, so they are deliberately pitched to fit into the pitches that humans hear easily.  And each household of cats often has it’s own “words” for different things (like food, or cuddle time) but which are not shared between houses!

So it wouldn’t surprise me at all if cats exposed to humans who speak different languages end up making different “meow dialects”!

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