Gestures tell us much

Gestures Offer Insight By Ipke Wachsmuth October 2006 Hand and arm movements do much more than accent words; they provide context for understanding Our body movements always convey something about us to other people. The same is true of gestures. Experts increasingly agree that gestures and speech spring from a common cognitive process to become inextricably interwoven. The Visual Information Channel Most of us would find it difficult and uncomfortable to converse for any extended period without using our hands and arms. Neurological findings on individuals with communication disorders also demonstrate a fundamental connection between speech and gestures. The interpretations of sounds and movements are closely related for the listener as well. For example, neuroscientist Spencer D. Kelly hooked test subjects to an electroencephalograph and charted their event-related potentials while they watched a video. Which Came First? See also In English please A world without time and number

How to raise a language from the dead Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in Middle English, not Old English. Iif it had been written in Old English, it would be almost unreadable to the average student: HWÆT, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum, þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon! oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas, syððanærest wearð feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah instead of Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne, (Old English text taken from Beowulf)

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