From doomvox at gmail.com Wed Feb 9 18:07:42 2022 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 18:07:42 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 02/13 at 1pm PDT Message-ID: Lera Boroditsky, "How does our language shape the way we think" (2009): We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world. The Raku Study Group February 13, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84159205141?pwd=UkFta3NVL1dXVHhwSjEzZUF3a3dMZz09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/283871691/ From doomvox at gmail.com Fri Feb 25 13:24:58 2022 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:24:58 -0800 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 02/27 at 1pm PDT Message-ID: Poul Anderson, "Harvest the Fire" (1995): "Why this jagged distribution of greatness? The incidence of innate abilities could scarcely vary that much. The social situation, the _Zeitgeist_-- were such phrases anything but noises?" The Raku Study Group February 17, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577367208?pwd=L3kxT0ZoSlh3SXVLTzBnS053ZmZkdz09w Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/284255643/