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The author describes how people in hill are able to talk across the valley using the speech-rhythm which the author himself was unable to do. I think the trick people use is to elongate each syllable which 1) gives necessary redundancy to account for the lost information and 2) mitigate the distortion due to echo. People do it naturally without thinking. (I learned this from "The Information" by James Geick.)
— Jun 03, 2018 08:12AM
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There are bits and pieces of very interesting information about Nepal 50 years ago, and about the premodern society in general. For example, the author was surprised when he sees a mother breastfeeding her 5-year-old son and is even more surprised when she told that children are breastfed up to the age of 10 years. It turns out breastfeeding is actually a form of natural birth control!
— Jun 03, 2018 08:19AM
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The author describes how people in hill are able to talk across the valley using the speech-rhythm which the author himself was unable to do. I think the trick people use is to elongate each syllable which 1) gives necessary redundancy to account for the lost information and 2) mitigate the distortion due to echo. People do it naturally without thinking. (I learned this from "The Information" by James Geick.)
— Jun 03, 2018 08:11AM
Subin
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I author describe how people in hill are able to talk across the valley using the speech-rhythm which the author himself was unable to do. I think the trick people use is to elongate each syllable which 1) gives necessary redundancy to account for the lost information and 2) mitigate the distortion due to echo. People do it naturally without thinking. (I learned this from "The Information" by James Geick.)
— Jun 03, 2018 07:15AM
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I'm so glad that I found this book, and I'm enjoying reading about old Nepal. The author was honest in describing his experience in Nepal and is not shy about criticizing things he didn't like in Nepal such as poor hygiene and crippling bureaucracy; I like how authors used to be blunt in those days. People often bemoan the lost pristine nature of Nepal but people forget how difficult life was back then.
— Jun 03, 2018 07:04AM
