2014-10-27 Communication: zodiac

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English is a Germanic language
Portuguese is a Romance language
(both are Indo-European languages)
Arabic is a Semitic language
Chinese is a Sinitic language / Sino-Tibetan
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Boston men (whom) Boston men attack attack Boston men.
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1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

(Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th century)
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seperatism - a desire for one region to separate from the rest of its country

confirmation bias: a tendency to believe and remember information that confirms whatever you already thought

cold reading: a "psychic" technique where the reader looks at your reactions when deciding what is true about you

hot reading: when the reader already has information about you, for example through an accomplice in the audience

televangelist: a preacher who does services and faith healing and things like that on a television show

"The Apostle" - movie based on a famous faith healer who was actually doing hot reading and got arrested for fraud