Just about to start at 9pm BST. A history of language, Promises to be entertaining and informative.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/planet-word/
Fry's PLanet Word
New series on Beeb 2
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Fry's PLanet Word
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by hackenslash » Sep 25, 2011 7:55 pm
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#4 by Onyx8 » Sep 25, 2011 9:45 pm
Hopefully someone will put it on youtube for us peasants.
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#5 by Scar » Sep 25, 2011 10:05 pm
Onyx8 wrote:Hopefully someone will put it on youtube for us peasants.
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#6 by Clive Durdle » Sep 25, 2011 10:07 pm
Isn't religion a bi-product of language?
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#8 by DaveD » Sep 25, 2011 10:59 pm
Clive Durdle wrote:Isn't religion a bi-product of language?
A waste product perhaps.
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#10 by quisquose » Sep 26, 2011 1:35 pm
I am going to write to the BBC to complain about the way that the evolution of language was presented as fact.
It's only a theory1 Where are the transitional languages!
It's only a theory1 Where are the transitional languages!
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#12 by quisquose » Sep 26, 2011 5:36 pm
Onyx8 wrote:Hopefully someone will put it on youtube for us peasants.
Good evening, good evening and good evening ....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fngkvFf2WbI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq-UqCA4zkU[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb6isFDNaXA[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHInooBYfk[/youtube]
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#13 by Onyx8 » Sep 26, 2011 5:43 pm
The problem with fantasies is you can't really insist that everyone else believes in yours, the other problem with fantasies is that most believers of fantasies eventually get around to doing exactly that.
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#15 by Onyx8 » Sep 26, 2011 7:51 pm
Interesting show. Thanks.
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#16 by akigr8 » Sep 26, 2011 8:43 pm
Thanks for the tip, looks very interesting.
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Re: Fry's PLanet Word
#17 by ianryan1 » Sep 26, 2011 8:55 pm
As a first episode not bad.
Let's hope normal people watch it too.
Let's hope normal people watch it too.
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Fry's Planet Word
#18 by Emmeline » Sep 27, 2011 10:10 am
In this five-part series, Stephen Fry explores language in all its amazing complexity, variety and ingenuity. In his own distinctive way, he comes to understand how we learn it, write it, sometimes lose it, why it defines us to the very core of our being and can make us laugh, cry, tear our hair out and simply inspire us.
In this first episode, Stephen seeks to uncover the origins of human language and how and why we are the only species on the planet to have this gift.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ord_Babel/
Available on iplayer but hopefully available to others soon elsewhere. Well worth watching IMO.
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Re: Fry's Planet Word
#19 by trubble76 » Sep 27, 2011 10:42 am
Yup, interesting stuff!
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Re: Fry's Planet Word
#20 by quisquose » Sep 27, 2011 10:52 am
Emmeline wrote:Available on iplayer but hopefully available to others soon elsewhere. Well worth watching IMO.
Yep, already on YouTube, and already posted up on the other thread.
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