{"id":2451,"date":"2014-10-30T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2020-01-17T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T22:19:43","slug":"new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/language\/kanji\/new-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasure of New Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--\n2015-01-07 14:37\nhttps:\/\/plus.google.com\/+MSinclairStevens\/posts\/Z1twhzcwYmD\nWhy the two different timestamps? When was this really written?\n\nGPlus Timestamp: Oct 30, 2014 8:53:44AM\nGPlus Permalink: https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+MSinclairStevens\/posts\/Z1twhzcwYmD\nMigrated. Not Formatted.\n\nToDO I have another post on intention. These need to be edited and combined.\nAnd different comments\n\n-->\n\n\n\n<p>Every day I spend an hour or so learning new words. For me the practice is a type of meditation: an investigation into meaning, signs and significance; comparing and contrasting concepts via two different sets of words. I learn a lot about my native tongue (English) as I dip my mind into other modes of expression (Japanese).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">Sometimes, I wonder if I&#8217;m not just wasting time. I have always rationalized my hobby as no more time-wasting than playing games or watching TV. Now science confirms I&#8217;m having as much fun as sex and drugs without the hangover or pregnancy! Woot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Today&#8217;s word: \u610f\u3000<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sense, feeling, meaning. Literally, the sound of one&#8217;s heart. Listen to it and you will understand your&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u610f\u5411\u3000inclination (what direction you sense you&#8217;re leaning)<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u610f\u56f3\u3000intention (whatever you&#8217;ve &#8220;mapped&#8221; out, by design)<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u610f\u5473\u3000meaning, significance (you can almost taste it)<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u610f\u5730\u3000disposition (your base, the foundation of your character, what &#8220;grounds&#8221; you)<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u610f\u5fd7\u3000volition, will (including free will, weak-willed, strong-willed)<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp; \u610f\u898b\u3000opinion (viewpoint)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Damn! I need a cigarette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/web\/ub\/en\/menu_eines\/noticies\/2014\/10\/063.html\">The Pleasure of Learning New Words<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"g-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+MSinclairStevens\/posts\/Z1twhzcwYmD\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h4>GPlus Discussion<\/h4>\n<h5>Oct 31, 2014<\/h5>\n<p>Tormod Renberg Ler\u00f8y<br>+1<br>I applaud your conclusion. Smoke em if you got em \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It is a wonderful feeling.<\/p>\n<p><!--\nJuergen Aschenbrenner's profile photo\nJuergen Aschenbrenner\n+1\nNice post helped me to memorize some Hanzi\n--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;University of Barcelona (UB), the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) have experimentally proved that human adult word learning exhibit activation not only of cortical language regions but also of the ventral striatum, a core region of reward processing. Results confirm that the motivation to learn is preserved throughout the lifespan, helping adults to acquire a second language.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Researchers determined that the reward region that is activated is the same that answers to a wide range of stimuli, including food, sex, drugs or game.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/language\/kanji\/new-words\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}