Emma Watson at the launch of Prada Paradoxe in New York [September 12, 2022]

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Sophie Sumner | Marc Bouwer gown | Prince’s Trust Gala | 2022

Emma at the Prada Paradoxe launch in NYC

She's FINALLY present at a launch for the fragrance. And now we have definite proof that she's still friends with Sophie Sumner. X

sophs-style:

Sophie Sumner (wearing Marc Bouwer) at the 2022 Prince's Trust Gala held at Cipriani 25 Broadway on Thursday (28th April) in New York City.

Lingthusiasm Episode 75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions

Emotions are a universal part of the human experience, but the specific ways we express them are mediated through language. For example, English uses the one word “love” for several distinct feelings: familial love, romantic love, platonic love, and loving things (I love this ice cream!), whereas Spanish distinguishes lexically between the less intense querer and the stronger amar. Conversely, many Austronesian languages use the same word for the concepts that English would split as “fear” and “surprise”, while many Nakh-Daghestani (Northeast Caucasian) languages use the same word for the cluster that English splits into “fear”, “anxiety”, and “grief”.

In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about the layers of language that are involved in emotions, from how emotion words form different clusters of related meaning in different language families to how the way your face shape changes when you smile affects the pitch of your voice. We also talk about how our understanding of how to talk about emotion changes throughout history and our lifespan, and how bilingual people feel differently about emotional words in their different languages.

Read the transcript here.

Announcements:

Thank you so much for celebrating our 6th anniversary with us! We appreciated all the love and support on social media, and it was great to see you recommending us to other language fans. Thank you to anyone who made an irl recommendation of the podcast, we appreciate you too!

In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about stylized Oldey Timey English! We talk about contexts in which pseudo-archaic forms get used, from Gretchen's recent experience with names and titles in a 1492 papal election roleplaying game, to how the language handbook of the Society of Creative Anachronism balances modern-day desires for gender-neutral language with creating historic-feeling titles, and a 1949 academic article cataloguing business names in the New York City phonebook that began with "ye". Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 60+ other bonus episodes, as well as access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds.

Here are the links mentioned in the episode:

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

‘Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?’ - Nautilus article

‘Language Development and Emotional Expression’ by Lois Bloom

‘Alexithymia and levels of processing: Evidence for an overall deficit in remembering emotion words’ from Journal of Research in Personality

Example of Emotion Wheels

‘The Preponderance of Negative Emotion Words in the Emotion Lexicon: A Cross-generational and Cross-linguistic Study’ by Robert W. Schrauf & Julia Sanchez

‘'Stop Doing That, Ia Komu Skazala!': Language Choice and Emotions in Parent—Child Communication’ by Aneta Pavlenko

Lingthusiasm Episode ‘Making machines learn language - Interview with Janelle Shane’

‘‘Happy talk: Perceptual and acoustic effects of smiling on speech’ by V. C. Tartter

‘Perceptual cues in non-verbal vocal expressions of emotion’ by Disa A Sauter, Frank Eisner, Andrew J Calder, & Sophie K Scott

‘On the Differences in Prosodic Features of Emotional Expressions in Japanese Speech according to the Degree of the Emotion’ by Yasuki Hashizawa, Shoichi Takeda, Muhd Dzulkhiflee Hamzah, Ghen Ohyama

‘Acoustic-phonetic properties of smiling revised – measurements on a natural video corpus’ by Helen Barthel & Hugo Quené

‘The voices of anger and disgust: Acoustic correlates in three languages’ by Marc D. Pell & Areej Alasseri

‘Relevant Angry Affect Slows Response Time To Commands’ by Aleah Combs

‘Beyond lexical meaning: The effect of emotional prosody on spoken word recognition’ by Seung Kyung Kim & Meghan Sumner

You can listen to this episode via Lingthusiasm.com, Soundcloud, RSS, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download an mp3 via the Soundcloud page for offline listening. To receive an email whenever a new episode drops, sign up for the Lingthusiasm mailing list.

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Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com

Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic.

Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, and our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.

This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)

Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Michael Esper, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Charlotte d’Amboise, Grace Gummer. Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig. Cinematography: Sam Levy. Production design: Sam Lisenco. Film editing: Jennifer Lame. 

Frances Ha succeeds at what I think it sets out to be: an affectionately amusing look at what an earlier generation called Yuppies -- except that Yuppies seemed to have a much easier time of integrating themselves into adulthood than the Gen Y or Millennial characters in this film. Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach, is charmingly awkward as Frances -- whose last name doesn't come from the frequently ironic interjection of "ha ha" in her conversations but from the truncation of her full surname, Halladay, that's revealed at the film's end. Frances is a would-be modern dancer trying to make it in New York even though her talent is, well, marginal. As a result, she's dependent on a collection of friends, including her fellow Vassar alum, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). But when Sophie and others in her life start finding their way in the world, clumsy, agreeable Frances begins to fall behind. If some of this reminds you of the HBO series Girls, and not because both the film and the series feature Adam Driver in a key role, it's not surprising. It's the same set: young middle-class white people in downward mobility when compared with their parents. We meet Frances's parents -- played by Gerwig's own parents, Christine and Gordon Gerwig-- when she goes home to Sacramento for Christmas, a sequence probably designed to remind us why Frances prefers to struggle in New York than to settle for security in a less competitive milieu. Too much of this sort of generational comedy can wear out its welcome, but Frances Ha is so unpretentious -- except perhaps for Baumbach's decision to film it in black and white as an hommage to Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979)-- and Gerwig so skillful at creating Frances, that you can't help liking it.

Added more photos of Emma Watson at the launch of Prada Paradoxe in New York [September 12, 2022]

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002. Elizabeth Weir

002 | Give me a character & I will tell you

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: She deserved to live, actually! And keep being leader! Maybe coleader with Woosley, because balancing the IOA tension with the needs of Pegasus would have been excellent TV.

my OTP:

Teylabeth. I am captain here.

my cross over ship:

Listen. Elizabeth/Sophie from Leverage. Imagine the chaos.

a headcanon fact:

She loves trash food. Absolute goblin of a woman. Will eat 3 day old pizza she forgot on the counter.

Her and Rodney knew each other in their clubbing days, and fought about the moral implications of Anarchism and it’s place in a modern nation state.

She has a tattoo.

How I feel about this character:

I love her with my whole entire heart actually.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Teyla, Caldwell, sometimes Ronon, and sometimes Sumner.

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Her and Rodney are bros, actually, and you will take that from my cold dead hands.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

I don’t know if I really have one? She was a better expedition leader than Sam, maybe. But I’m not sure if that’s unpopular.

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Top Model - Sophie Sumner

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