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The following are some of my comments on colleagues various works in ETEC 540.\u00a0 I found reading through my classmates submissions was quite inspiring.\u00a0 Doing an online program can get lonely at times and you wonder if you are on the right track.\u00a0 Having the opportunity to read through peers reactions, thoughts and productions adds so much to the experience.<\/p>\n

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  1. Thoughts on \u201cETEC 540 Task 2: Does Language Shape The Way We Think?\u201d\u00a0 Link to Simon’s post<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Rich Payne <\/b><\/cite>
    Hello Simon,
    \nI too found this concept of time as described at 10:56 in the video fascinating, and also commented on this point in the lecture, so I enjoyed reading your reflection on it. Yes, it does seem to \u2018make sense\u2019 as Dr. Boroditsky points out that the past is a known and could be seen as in \u2018front\u2019 of you as opposed to the future in front. It reminds me of when I studied economics in university, I heard a flipped metaphor that the job of an economist is like driving forward, trying to keep a consistent speed over the hills while only looking in the rear-view mirror. That is a metaphor of predicting the space in front, moving into the future while only knowing the space behind representing the past. It would seem however that the consistency across languages as far as I am aware is that the metaphor of time always involves moving through space. That is interesting, Einstein\u2019s work on the theory of relativity went on to prove that space and time are inextricable. I like your closing thought on this \u201cI could see myself getting used to this logical interpretation of time and gesturing\u201d Once we become aware of these other ways of visualizing concepts of time, what an interesting exercise to set out say a week where one could experiment with thinking about time though a different conceptual lens. I wonder if the Aymaran people focus excessively on the past. What do you think? For me personally I tend perhaps to focus a little too much on the future on the other hand I have friends who always focus on the past. One of my favourite things about having young kids is that they really focus on the present and always have a way of sucking you right into the present moment! Conceptualizing time is so strange.
    \n~ Rich Payne<\/section>\n
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    2.\u00a0 Thought on \u201cTask 3: Voice to Text Task\u201d\u00a0 Link to Anne’s post<\/a><\/section>\n

    ~ Rich Payne <\/strong>September 30, 2023 at 2:52 pm<\/p>\n

    Hi Anne,
    \nGreat to read your oral story about a written one. I love the fact that you still had this unfinished book series lingering in your mind from childhood, how powerful is that? And that you finally got closure!
    \nYou must be well spoken; I found your text to be quite free of errors. In those you described, punctuation, undesired habits of speech etc., I had much the same experience in this exercise. I also came to some of the same conclusions about the differences between organizing thought that is meant to be written and that intended to be spoken. One word you used when describing the difference, ascribed to the latter, was performance. Yes, that is a good way of describing it. The act of oration places a real time onus on the speaker to keep the attention of the audience and offers the opportunity to use vocal expression to pique interest, that makes it somewhat of a performance. Especially as a teacher!<\/p>\n