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Texting is a scourge, people said. They believed that texting is the fall of serious literacy among young people in the United States, even the world today. But actually, texting is a miraculous thing. Basically, we think about language, that has existed for at least 80.000 years. Talking is the way we used language the most. Writing is something that came along much later and we don’t know exactly when that happened. So, the first one is speech and after that, writing comes along.

Writing has certain advantages, such as, you can do things with language that are much less likely if you’re just talking. For example, look at a passage by Edward Gibbon, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” . That’s a beautiful passage, but no one talks that way. We used casual speech instead of the formal one in our daily.

You can speak like you writing. For example when someone give a speech, they became formal. That’s what people did then, speaking like writing. But after that, you also want to write like you speak. And then there was manual typewriter, electric typewriter and now we have computer keyboard. You can type easily to keep up the pace of speech and later you have to have someone to receive your message quickly. We have smartphones. This allows us to write like we speak. And that’s when texting comes in. But texting is very loose in its structure, no one cares about the capital letters or punctuation. But, you also don’t care about that when you speak.

So, texting is fingered speech. We write the way we talk. But we see this general bagginess of the structure and lack of concern with rules, and then we feels something is wrong. In this new kind of language, there is new structures coming up. For example, the word LOL which means “Laughing Out Loud” theoretically, but actually no one’s laughing.

Another example is slash (/). We used it in the lines of “We’re going to have a party /(slash) networking sessions”. But now, young people used it to change the scene or the topic of conversation. But in real life, there are ways to do it gracefully. You can’t do that when you’re texting.

So, texting these days is the new way of writing that young people are developing. Texting also is evidence of a balancing art that young people do. It’s an expansion of their linguistic repertoire.

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Stress

I believe that everyone in the world ever experienced it.

And, Kelly shared how to make stress our friends.

Her mission is to help people be happier and healthier. The study tracked 30.000 adults in the United States for eight years. Bad news is, people who experienced a lot of strees in the previous year had 43 % increased risk of dying. And it was true that people believe that stress is harmful for our health.

In the study, it found that people who experienced stress but did not view stress as harmful had the lowest risk of dying, including people who had little stress.

Stress response to heart rate goes up and blood vessels constrict, that’s one of the reason that chronic stress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease. In the study, participants who viewed their stress as helpful, their blood vessels stayed relaxed.

Octoxyn is a neuro-hormone. It fine-tunes our brain’s social instincts. But what people dont understand is that it is stress hormone.

Our biological stress response is nudgin us to tell someone how we feel, instead of bottling it up. Our stress response wants to make sure we notice when someone else in our life is struggling so we can support each other. And when our life is difficult, our stress response wants us to be surrounded by people who care about us.

Octoxyn does not only act on brain but also in the body and one of the main roles is to protect our cardiovascular system from the effects of stress. And it is the cool thing that the pysical benefits of octoxyn are enhanced by social contact and social support.

So, when we stress and we get support from people. We reales more of this hormone and our stress respone becomes healthier and we actually recover faster from stress!

And, read this!!!

How you think and act can transform your experience of stress. Choose the right one, when you choose to view stress as helpful you create the biology of courage. And when you choose to view it as harmful and connect it to other stress, you create resilence. We also can appreciate stress because stress gives us access to our hearts.

Remember that we don’t have to face stress alone!

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What goin on in baby’s little brain? It the modern tools of neuroscience are demonstrating to us what’s going on up there is nothing short of rocket science.

Language has a critical period for learning.

You know, babies and children are genius until they turn seven and there’s a systematic decline.

Patricia works on lab that focused on the first critical period in development. That is period in which baby try to master which sound are used in their language. They’ve been studying the babies, the baby sits on parent’s lap and they train them to turn their heads when a sound change.

Baby all over the world are citizen of the world.

Babies at the age of six to eight months are totally equivalent. Two months later is two-month month of critical period for sound development. There are two things going on. The first babies are listening to us, as the’re listening to us they’re taking statistics. Babies are sensitive to the statistics.

Patricia said changing our models of what the critical period about. Billinguals must keep two sets of statistics in mind at once and flip between them. It depends on who they’re speaking to.

As Patricia works in lab. She and her team tested some babies as the wanted to see what in her brain.

From some tested and the result. Babies are actually amazing. As the babies hear a world in her language, the auditory areas light up. And you know what? One brain area causing another to active.

And, they are embarking on a grand and golden agae of knowlegdge about child’s development. And what is more insteristing is that in investigating the child’s brain, they’re going to uncover deep truths about what it means to be human, and in the process, and she said that they may be able to help keep their own minds open to learning for their entire lives.

I really really like her last sentence actually!

And, as watching this video. We can see how amazing and geniur the babies are. Based on the explanation, we also can take a lesson. And for those who have babies, I mean it shouldn’t be your own baby, right? It could be your sister or brother or maybe your niece.

And it’s the right time to teach baby laguange at their golden age.

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