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#articulation : a joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton

- French: Articulation

- German: die Artikulation

- Italian: articolazione / giuntura

- Portuguese: articulação

- Spanish: articulación

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Weebly is decaying
https://www.articulation.blog/p/why-you-should-move-your-site-away-from-weebly
#ycombinator #articulation #blog #website_creator #website_builder #free

Why You Should Move Your Site Away from Weebly (YC W07)
https://www.articulation.blog/p/why-you-should-move-your-site-away-from-weebly
#ycombinator #articulation #blog #website_creator #website_builder #free

#articulation : a joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton

- French: Articulation

- German: die Artikulation

- Italian: articolazione / giuntura

- Portuguese: articulação

- Spanish: articulación

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

The Importance of Learning #Voice #Projection #Articulation and #Diction

https://castingfrontier.com/blog/the-importance-of-learning-voice-projection-articulation-and-diction/

Pour tous les problèmes D'articulation https://adminshopify18.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/pour-tous-les-problemes-darticulation/ #Articulation, #Dos, #Genou, #Ligament, #Pied

From The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk pg 51:

All trauma is preverbal. Shakespeare captures this state of speechless terror in Macbeth, after the murdered king’s body is discovered: ‘Oh horror! horror! horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee! Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!’ Under extreme conditions people may scream obscenities, call for their mothers, howl in terror, or simply shut down. Victims of assaults and accidents sit mute and frozen in emergency rooms; traumatized children ‘lose their tongues’ and refuse to speak. Photographs of combat soldiers show hollow-eyed men staring mutely into a void.
Even years later traumatized people often have enormous difficulty telling other people what has happened to them. Their bodies reexperience terror, rage, and helplessness, as well as the impulse to fight or flee, but these feelings are almost impossible to articulate. Trauma by nature drives us to the edge of comprehension, cutting us off from language based on common experience or an imaginable past.
This doesn’t mean that people can’t talk about a tragedy that has befallen them. Sooner or later most survivors, like the veterans in chapter 1, come up with what many of them call their ‘cover story’ that offers some explanation for their symptoms and behavior for public consumption. These stories, however, rarely capture the inner truth of the experience. It is enormously difficult to organize one’s experience into language.

From pg 53:

When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event were happening in the present. But because their left brain is not working very well, they may not be aware that they are reexperiencing and reenacting the past – they are just furious, terrified, enraged, ashamed, or frozen.
After the emotional storm passes, they may look for something or somebody to blame for it. They behaved the way they did because you were ten minutes late, or because you burned the potatoes, or because you ‘never listen to me.’ Of course, most of us have done this from time to time, but when we cool down, we hopefully can admit our mistake. Trauma interferes with this kind of awareness, and, over time, our research demonstrated why.

From pg 55:

For a hundred years or more, every textbook of psychology and psychotherapy has advised that some method of talking about distressing feelings can resolve them. However, as we’ve seen, the experience of trauma itself gets in the way of being able to do that. No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality. I am continually impressed by how difficult it is for people who have gone through the unspeakable to convey the essence of their experience. It is so much easier for them to talk about what has been done to them – to tell a story of victimization and revenge – than to notice, feel, and put into words the reality of their internal experience.
Our scans had revealed how their dread persisted and could be triggered by multiple aspects of daily experience. They had not integrated their experience into the ongoing stream of their life. They continued to be ‘there’ and did not know how to be ‘here’ – fully alive in the present.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/10/12/all-trauma-is-preverbal/

#articulation #discursiveGap #real #symbolisation #trauma

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres
Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt 
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

- T.S. Eliot, East Coker

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/10/12/one-has-only-learnt-to-get-the-better-of-words-for-the-things-one-no-longer-has-to-say/

#articulation #eliot #loss #renewal

Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still. Shrieking voices
Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering,
Always assail them.

- T S Eliot, Burnt Norton

From Charles Taylor’s Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment loc 1257:

But, and here the idealism enters, our getting it right also transforms it. The world as we know it is fallen, out of shape, in some sense broken. The world is a kind of language, but lacunary and distorted. What we have to get right is the original, of which it is a damaged and unfaithful rendition. And our discovery of this proper original version helps to reinstate it, to make the world once more a faithful expression of it. This transformative power is the “magical” dimension of Novalis’ thought. The world responds to the recognition of its true nature by coming closer to this true nature.

From loc 772:

As I mentioned earlier, there are uses / forms of language which can serve to objectify and also on occasion manipulate the things around us. But this is the dead, uncreative side of language. Then there are the forms which are the sites of epiphanies. These constitute language as living, revivifying. Epiphanies in this sense don’t just add to our knowledge, they inspire us; catching a glimpse of these connections powerfully moves us; the current between us and Nature flows once more.

Can we sustain a sense of language as recovery in the absence of the romantic faith referred to by Taylor above? I think we can and that it rests upon the willingness to make what Eliot, elsewhere in the Four Quartets, refers to as ‘raids on the inarticulate’: to see the strain of words, their propensity to crack and break, as an existential (rather than simply an aesthetic) challenge. This is exactly what I worry that conversational agents, as engines of literacy and articulation, will be liable to undercut.

(How to Enjoy Writing: Generative AI and the Challenge of Scholarship has become a deeply strange book, that I suspect no one will read. But I’m finding writing it a deeply formative experience)

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/09/22/words-strain-crack-and-sometimes-break-under-the-burden/

#articulation #charlesTaylor #inarticulate #poetry #writing

From Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor, loc 1313:

We can see this if we think of cases of self-correction, such as, for instance, when I come to see that my anger at your action was not really indignation—that is, morally motivated—but that what really disturbed me was that it made me and my inaction in that situation look bad. In such cases, my feelings re-gestalt, or perhaps become conflicted where they weren’t before. Moreover, in my immaturity, I may not even have realized that we are capable of this kind of self-deception. Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way. I may previously have had some inkling of this at the edge of consciousness, but applying the description allows the experience of appalled self-correction its full force.

This is closely connected to the capacity of language to serve as a site of epiphany. From loc 772:

As I mentioned earlier, there are uses / forms of language which can serve to objectify and also on occasion manipulate the things around us. But this is the dead, uncreative side of language. Then there are the forms which are the sites of epiphanies. These constitute language as living, revivifying. Epiphanies in this sense don’t just add to our knowledge, they inspire us; catching a glimpse of these connections powerfully moves us; the current between us and Nature flows once more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRULtXn6W0s

I'm listening to every little whisper in the distance singing hymns
And I can
I can feel things
Changing

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/09/16/seeing-my-response-under-the-new-description-allows-me-to-experience-it-in-a-new-way/

#articulation #charlesTaylor #language #meaning

I came home recently to find that my request to a gardener to “cut back the shrubs” led him to absolutely decimate them:

What does ‘cut back’ mean? I meant slightly trim overgrowth but leave them otherwise intact. It was a text I sent while travelling and listening to a podcast, without putting much real thought into it. To him it meant significantly reduce the quantity of the shrub. The problem was my instruction rather than the gardener’s execution. I gave a vague and misleading request which was easy to misinterpret.

I would suggest this is what many users do with LLMs. It often leads them to blame the machine for what was actually a failure on their part to provide adequate instructions. Prompting requires clarity about your intentions, which is something most of us lack at least some of the time.

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/09/11/what-the-gardener-ruining-my-shrubs-illustrates-about-prompting-llms/

#articulation #LLMs #prompting

@etcetera curieux de mieux appréhender les contraintes autour du genoux droit, du bassin et des lombaires dans la deuxième photographie. Tensions, étirements, compressions au niveau des muscles, tendons, ligaments et os. #tenségrité #articulation

The Importance of Learning #VoiceProjection #Articulation and #Diction

https://castingfrontier.com/blog/the-importance-of-learning-voice-projection-articulation-and-diction/
#actors #acting #audition #theater

Morning read - #linguistics #SpeechLanguagePathology #articulation

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-a-crispy-r

https://youtu.be/q4KF3ZP4wzY I've always felt that articulation is the most human part of making music. Maybe even the most difficult thing for software to emulate. #music #musictheory #articulation

Why does some Quran recitations sound so melodious or beautiful than others? For example the stress reliving recitation I posted yesterday?

There are concepts of Murattal and Mujawwad that may give us a hint.

What is the difference between Tarteel and Tajweed? by Quran Revolution channel

Here is another explanation.

Murattal & Mujawwad: different styles of recitation by Idrees Ally - learn maqamat المقامات channel

I’m not an expert on this topic. But here are two styles of recitations. Let me know which one is which and which one do you like the most.

1. Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary:

Al-Fatiha: 01 by Quranic Recitations channel

Intro about reciter from Wikipedia:

Mahmoud Khalil al-Hussary, also known as Al-Hussary, was an Egyptian Qari widely acclaimed for his accurate recitation of the Qur’an. Al-Hussary committed the entire Qur’an to memory by age 8 and started reciting at public gatherings by age 12. In 1944, Al-Hussary won Egypt Radio’s Qu’ran Recitation competition which had around 200 participants, including veterans like Muhammad Rifat.

2. Abdullah ad-Daghistani:

Ahmad Naina (In Mujawwad): Sura 1 Al Fatiha by Sheikh Abdullah Fa’izi Ad-Daghestani channel

Intro about reciter from Wikipedia: