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it's friday april 15th 20. I'm Jackson Bird today. In a more serious take on yesterday's musings, how is the pandemic and modern technology changing how we communicate about and understand time? Plus, speaking of time, why do Passover and Easter sometimes occur so far apart from one

another?

Let's talk about the messy world of human-constructed calendars and natural cycles.

And that startup trying to slingshot satellites into space has officially booked a test launch with NASA.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Well, since yesterday I joked a bit about the words that we use for time and how Wired contributor Paul Ford suggested

we might update some units of time to better reflect

our strange new world. I thought perhaps today I dig in a bit more seriously to that same notion.

Sociolinguist Anne Delaney recently expounded on chronemics and how our nonverbal language of time

is shifting right now. Cronymics is quoting Delaney in J-Store

Daily, the study of the relationship between time and communication. Through the lens of

chronemics, we can examine why time appears to have a different essence at, well, different times,

end quote. Kronemics can refer to verbal and nonverbal communication about time.

Verbal communication can include some of the unique grammatical ways that we refer to time in English.

Phrases like running out of time and carving time out or putting time in.

These are all phrasal verbs that can trip up non-native English

speakers. Time can also drag. It can fly. We're very expressive about time. And like humans

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