What are you listening to/watching?

[Khemehekis]

You Were Probably Taught to Read Wrong

A YouTube video on how "cueing" replaced phonics in elementary reading education.

We never had this cueing stuff when I was in elementary school in the eighties and nineties. We had full-on phonics instruction, complete with macrons over long vowels, breves over short vowels, and slashes through silent E's.

[Visions1]

I recall the macrons and breves.

Gosh, school. We were taught a second language in school and I hated it.
I now read and speak it fluently and translate it for an occupation. And like it.

[Visions1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gvotoVFlI

Most Canadian song I've heard.

[Visions1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJHR2NB7Wt4

Only relevant if you are writing a novel (guy says so in his video).
If you're just world building for the heck of it - eh. It's arguably a sign you can send your conworld to a publisher.

[Khemehekis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gvotoVFlI

Most Canadian song I've heard.

Aww, I thought it was going to be Bob and Doug Mackenzie's "Twelve Days of Christmas". The one that ends with "two turtlenecks, and a beer . . ."

[TBPO]

Band: Once Human
Song: Eye of Chaos

(Death metal alert!)

[HolyHandGrenade!]

TØP is king.

[Man in Space]

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – “ Murder of the Universe”

[Dormouse559]

“These Walls” by Dua Lipa, feat. Pierre de Maere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjx5kv05x3A

This is Dua Lipa’s second bilingual (English-French) single with a Belgian singer. Her first was with Angèle. I love both, but “These Walls” feels more properly bilingual — partly because it’s longer, so the verse in French has more room to breathe. There’s also a pretty even language split after that verse.

C’est le deuxième single bilingue (anglais-français) de Dua Lipa avec un chanteur belge. Elle a fait son premier avec Angèle. J’adore les deux, mais “These Walls” me semble plus complètement bilingue — en partie parce que c’est plus long, ce qui laisse plus de temps pour le couplet en français. Et les paroles après ce couplet sont également divisées entre les deux langues.

[Man in Space]

Blksmiith – “GORE-TEX COVERS MY SOUL”

[Glenn]

Among other things, I have just finished reading Children of Time and Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which are both works of science fiction (although the latter wears the trappings of fantasy). Children of Time alternates between the perspectives of future humans and artificially evolved intelligent spiders; the spiders and their worldbuilding are definitely the more interesting of the two.

(Another SF work that I read several years ago, Eifelheim by Michael Flynn, had the opposite issue. The three legs of the plot revolved around the inhabitants of a village in fourteenth-century Germany, the crew of an alien spaceship that crashes nearby, and a pair of near-future scholars investigating the event. The medieval humans (in particular, the village priest) are the main viewpoint characters and are described in considerable color and detail, while the aliens and the future humans are much less fleshed out.)

[Reyzadren]

Amaranthe - Re-Vision