Just took a look! The Cherokee course seems to be rather limited in scope. I'd hope that's due to a choice of priorities for native speakers rather than a lack of interest to elaborate the course by Mango, but it's still only two chapters after 4(?) years. Though it is free without the subscription.

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www.nps.gov/edis/learn/h...

www.gutenberg.org/files/30112/...

www.cylinder.de/guide_blue-a...

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

May our silly traditions live on and on.

And a guid new year!

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Finally, this one's just a personal favorite of mine. Hope you enjoy!

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Eventually, the technology would be replaced by the higher-fidelity and very much less-destructible material of plastic, a novel invention at the time!

Below is a recording of Frank C. Stanley's performance of the song from 1910.

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150 years ago! Which is what one might very appropriately call 'auld lang syne.'

(Fun fact: the melody was once adopted as the national anthem of Korea)

This is the earliest recording we have of the Hogmanay (new year's eve) classic, 100 years before my own birth!

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The Graphophone was the invention of Volta Laboratory, helmed by the voice above's son, Graham. It's an improvement on Thomas Edison's tinfoil phonograph of 1877, itself inspired by Graham Bell's telephone.

Here's the recording process below.

(Graham Bell & Edison would share the patent.)

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and he doth appear

Thanks for sharing!

I also wonder what differences one might find, say, between the rate of AI use in student writing in the USA vs Germany...for no obvious reasons...

(Although I would hazard a guess that economic incentives post-graduation would also then play some factor as well.)

Amazing, thanks!

Ugh! Just listen to this

definitely a gives-me-chills-every-time type thing for me lol

Of course!

I'm taking PhonPhon this semester, and this would probably be biting off more than I can chew (the paper's just a squib). But I'm also taking Cherokee & think it'd be cool to analyze Agalisiga's album "Nasgino Inage Nidayulenvi (It Started in the Woods)." I've also become a huge fan tbh.

Thank you!

I think "embodied" may be a loaded term here. But to be clear, I don't typically buy (I might start making things up now) strictly deterministic rationales for much of anything*, but I definitely see there being influence.

*excepting like, "this is a typical guitar, so it can't sound like a flute"

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Lefler, Lisa J., and Thomas N. Belt. Sounds of Tohi : Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia, University of Alabama Press, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central.

And I'd wish everyone the chance to read these words.

I should be so grateful.

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And you should learn the story of Lula Elk ᏥᎨᏒ
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But you should watch this memorial service.
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f/ wôpanâak & Montauk journalist, @ameliaschafer.bsky.social: "'They’re ready to go home': Few answers at school gravesite."

I whole-heartedly recommend falling down the rabbit hole of her ICT bylines (They're unfailingly incredible, from what I've seen so far.) And give her a follow here!
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