#nanyang

[coffe-eblog]

Nanyang coffee ~

[lonelyicedcoffee]

Ang sarap mo 😭

[jamesabelc]

Laksa

Nanyang

September 2022

[jaowemagante]

1st camaraderie dinner of the year. Soon, mas marami na. Tiwala lang 😁 hahaha. 🍛🍱🥤 #Nanyang 🇸🇬 (at Nanyang Bonifacio One Tower) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnialycv2pVrhG-D9IlUtTdRypHO4pB-_RxGfM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jetlaggingbehind]

a wip i suspect i won't finish in time before the trend quiets down: SEAsian miku in the nanyang style, specifically inspired by georgette chen!! i hope u like it c: please look forward to the completed piece! misc in-progress below:

[yukimuraruki-art]

I finished the Fengxin yesterday night! Riding on a black steed, he's practising his arrow-and-bow-skills and I'm pretty sure that not only Xie Lian is watching him :D

I'm aware that...this drawing is pretty flawful, yet it is always a good idea to just try and try more to improve later :3 So I guess I'll draw more animals soon? Maybe something for Yuwu? 2ha? We will see ;D I hope you like this young man!

[materialsscienceandengineering]

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an artificial 'worm gut' to break down plastics, offering hope for a nature-inspired method to tackle the global plastic pollution problem. By feeding worms with plastics and cultivating microbes found in their guts, researchers from NTU's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) have demonstrated a new method to accelerate plastic biodegradation. Previous studies have shown that Zophobas atratus worms -- the larvae of the darkling beetle commonly sold as pet food and known as 'superworms' for their nutritional value -- can survive on a diet of plastic because its gut contains bacteria capable of breaking down common types of plastic. However, their use in plastics processing has been impractical due to the slow rate of feeding and worm maintenance.

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[lingthusiasm]

Lingthusiasm Episode 77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting

Singapore is a small city-state nation with four official languages: English, Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay. Most Singaporeans can also speak a local hybrid variety known as Singlish, which arose from this highly multilingual environment to create something unique to the island. An important part of growing up in Singapore is learning which of your language skills to use in which situation.

In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch gets enthusiastic about how kids learn language in Singapore with Woon Fei Ting, who’s a Research Associate and the Lab Manager at the Brain, Language & Intersensory Perception Lab at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. We talk about how the rich multilingual environment in Singapore led Fei Ting and the lab to do language documentation while trying to figure out how kids learn to talk in Singapore, creating a dictionary of Red Dot Baby Talk (named after how Singapore looks like a red dot on the world map). We also talk about Singlish more generally, some words that Gretchen has learned on her trip, doing research with kids and parents via Zoom, and the role of a lab manager and other lab members in doing linguistic research.

Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here.

Announcements: Our liveshow is in just a few days!! Gretchen will be chatting to Dr Kirby Conrod (from our episode about the grammar of singular they) about language and gender on February 18th (Canada) slash 19th (Australia)! You can find out what time that is for you here. This liveshow is for Lingthusiam patrons and will take place on the Lingthusiasm Discord server. Become a patron before the event to ask us questions in advance or live-react in the text chat. This episode will also be available as an edited-for-legibility recording in your usual Patreon live feed if you prefer to listen at a later date. In the meantime: ask us questions about gender or tell us about your favourite examples of gender in various languages and we might include them in the show!

In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about what we've been up to in 2022 and what's coming up for 2023. We also talk about our favourite linguistics paper that we read in 2022 slash possibly ever: okay, yes, academic papers don’t typically do this, but this paper has spoilers, so we STRONGLY recommend reading it yourself here before listening to this episode, or check out the sample paragraph on the Patreon post. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 70+ other bonus episodes, as well as access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds, and get access to this weekends liveshow!

Here are the links mentioned in the episode:

Woon Fei Ting on Twitter

Lingthusiasm episode ‘What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles’, the prof whose lab Fei Ting works in

BLIP lab at NTU on Facebook

‘Creating a Corpus of Multilingual Parent-Child Speech Remotely: Lessons Learned in a Large-Scale Onscreen Picturebook Sharing Task’ by Woon Fei Ting et al

BLIP lab’s transcription protocol and FAQ

‘Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm!’ Wordless picture book by Suzy Styles

‘Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to how Singaporeans communicate’ by Gwee Li Sui

Lingthusiasm episode ‘Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind’

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Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, and our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.

This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

[menaqueen]

[cmajorpotato]

What a beautiful campus

[storge]

Forget it. For the sake of your injury, I'll let it slide. I won't blame you for calling me that.

Sisterhood (2023) 1.18

[djcaracalhisshiss]

lululu babies are just the cutest🥹🫶🏻

[hearusout]

Evania R. Fernanda

[khizuo]

today in khizuo's family lore that ze went 19 years without knowing — apparently i have a large extended family on my mom's side?? that i've never visited?? who still live in their old homes in rural hubei

[micherrim]

I've been thinking, xie lian was already aware of hua cheng, mu qing and feng xin's identities during banyue arc, revealed to hua cheng his awareness to his identity early on but prolonged the two's masquerade, was because he wanted to get back a little bit on his two former friends

[dlyarchitecture]