Instructions were in Japanese and examples were provided in both forward and backward translation tasks; these examples included both cognates and noncognates, and were reversed for each language direction: for instance, L1 to L2, 鳥 (/tori/)– bird, ストレス (/sutoresu/)– stress; and L2 to L1, bird 鳥, stress ストレス.
No more fumbling for paper maps; no more (or not much) querying passers-by who might anyway speak a different language for directions.
In SLIC, we found borderline association for ATP2C2 with measures of receptive language (oral directions [p = 0.006], word classes [p = 0.04], and comprehension [p = 0.03]), expressive language (formulating sentences [p = 0.04]), and vocabulary (p = 0.04).
And in both that article and her recent one in The Wall Street Journal, she used the quote "There's an ant on your southeast leg" to describe an aboriginal Australian people's distinctive language for direction.
This presented Liff with the unique challenge, yet incredible creative opportunity, to choreograph sign language, alongside direction by Michael Arden, and was met with rave reviews.
(Kate Fox, an anthropologist, claims that this extends to language: anyone asking directions to the "bog" is probably either common as muck or an Old Etonian, she reckons).
In Ho Chi Minh City, there's a cottage tourism industry around helping westerners find the best street food as well as YouTube videos and English language blogs providing directions to popular but hard-to-find vendors.
Joyce was a singer as well as a writer (a tenor, he won a bronze medal at Feis Ceoil the same year that Bloom took his gambol) and he pushed language in many directions, including toward the sonic.
If I appeared compliant, it was because I had no option: I was in a foreign city, with enough of the local language to ask directions to the cathedral maybe, but not to search out a reliable protector and explain convincingly what was happening".
WeChat updates that location every five seconds, and we can send a map as well as a push to talk message in the local language to give directions to a taxi driver.
