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The upward intonation, the guttural “ck” and even the cheeky comeback to win the argument: at just 19 months old, baby Orla has mastered the crucial elements of speaking like a scouser.

Impressively, the toddler who featured in a viral video this week appears to have done so without the need for actual words.

A clip posted on TikTok, and now viewed more than 20m times, shows Orla babbling in a Liverpudlian accent as her babysitter, Olayka, tries and fails to coax her into taking a nap. Scientists say that the cute exchange is also a vivid illustration of the processes by which babies acquire language – and the surprising role of accents.

Babies are so tuned in to the musical ups and downs of speech that even as newborns they cry in distinctive ways that reflect the languages that they have heard while in the womb.

In one 2009 study, Prof Kathleen Wermke, a pioneer in the field of speech development at the Würzburg University in Germany, found that French infants tend to wail on a rising note and German babies favour a falling melody and other patterns have been seen for Mandarin, Swedish and African languages. “When I started 40 years ago, if I told people I was recording babies crying and making high-pitched sounds they’d look at you and think ‘Is this really science?’,” she said.

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[News] Thunder Force V's Soundtrack Is Getting A Remaster To Celebrate Saturn's 30th Anniversary (www.timeextension.com)

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Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server - Concepts And Planning (1993) (archive.org)

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A fascinating look back at a time when people and businesses had to be sold on the idea of client/server paradigms.

xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols by sundray in c/xkcd@lemmy.world

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The use of quotation marks, also called inverted commas, is very slightly complicated by the fact that there are two types: single quotes (` ') and double quotes (" "). As a general rule, British usage has in the past usually preferred single quotes for ordinary use, but double quotes are now increasingly common; American usage has always preferred double quotes.

University of Sussex

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Interview: "The Mega Drive / Genesis Is Built For Speed" - ZPF's Creator On Developing A New 16-bit Shmup In 2024 (www.timeextension.com)

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[-] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 2 days ago

That's a good one!

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Abiogenesis (lemmus.org)

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webcomic name by Alex Norris, July 4 2024.

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[-] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 3 days ago

Do tell!

Make it hurt by sundray in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 3 days ago

+1 insight

Make it hurt by sundray in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 3 days ago

You loot the kobold's body. You find a note that reads:

"Dear Krag, I miss you so much, and I pray for you to return soon. Our clutch of eggs is due to hatch, and more than anything I want the first thing they see is their devoted father..."