The Padverb Podcast with KMO

014 Bridging the Culture Gap with Dr. Batja Mesquita and Simon Ager

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Dr. Batja Mesquita is a social psychologist, an affective scientist, and a pioneer of cultural psychology. She is the author of "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions." In this episode's first interview, KMO and Batja discuss:

  • 03:10 – Batja's background and story
  • 04:26 – What's WEIRD about Western countries
  • 05:46 – US vs Netherlands: cultural differences
  • 10:30 – Translating emotions between cultures
  • 32:48 – Batja's take on the KMO's interview with Rich Firth-Godbehere
  • 36:08 – The nature-culture dichotomy

    • Our second guest, Simon Ager, is the founder, developer, and proprietor of Omniglot.com, an online encyclopedia of languages and writing systems. In this episode's second interview, KMO and Simon discuss:

    • 47:40 - Learning Japanese writing
    • 51:58 – Change in language learning methodologies
    • 52:33 – Writing scripts on Omniglot
    • 53:16 – Tolkien's invented languages
    • 54:32 - Sonja Lang's Toki Pona
    • 55:48 – Emojis
    • 57:20 – Making random changes to the Klingon grammar official
    • 58:18 – Languages, pidgins, creoles, and dialects
    • 59:18 - Mastering accents as adult learners
    • 1:01:37 – Watching foreign media and acquiring fake accents
    • 1:06:23 – Omniglot's unusual pedigree as a one-man linguistic orchestra

      • Host and Guests:

      • KMO: @Kayemmo |
        • en.padverb.com/kmo
      • Dr. Batja Mesquita:
        • @batjamesquita | www.batjamesquita.com |
        Wikipedia
      • Simon Ager
        • omniglot.com/aboutme.htm |
        @Omniglossia
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