Comments by "" (@Nynke_K) on "PBS Terra" channel.

  1. Whoa, gas leaks smell different in America than where I live? That's good to know for my future trips there! Also I love my sense of smell. Maybe I should start listing smelling things as a hobby 😅
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  2. I keep wondering how the air pockets allow heat to escape from the scalp! don't air pockets normally insulate? Is it because air pockets in hair aren't all closed off at the top so they let some heat out and somehow it's just enough?
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  3. nah, pretty sure there are heaps of European Europeans with that issue + densely planted, fine hair too! (and I think they significantly overlap with the 'no poo' movement)
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  4. Linguist here: actually, while you're absolutely right that there is a lot of variation in how good adults are at this, it does absolutely have to do with age - but we're taking about little kids being really good, and approximately by secondary school age language learning gets a lot worse. If you take a baby from, say, Amsterdam and move it to Manchester and have it raised among English speakers there, it will learn perfect Manchester English!
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  5. 2:15 had to pause to go take a sniff of my Christmas tree!
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  6. Linguist here: an accent is a particular style of pronouncing things, so if everyone in the world spoke exactly the same way (let's say in biblical Babel or in fictional Scotland), that way would still come with one particular accent. But then, of course no one would notice and the concept wouldn't be useful. But in the real world, people don't all talk to each other every day and also use their speech styles to signal they're part of different social groups, and so we have many different accents (and languages)!
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  7. I liked this video 11 hours after you and it just doesn't show the number of likes - apparently that's an option now :)
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