{"id":55894,"date":"2013-07-10T09:58:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=55894"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:51:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:51:45","slug":"high-altitude-language-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/high-altitude-language-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Altitude Language, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/caucaucus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55895\" alt=\"caucaucus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/caucaucus.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/caucaucus.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/caucaucus-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading can affect the behavior of those who identify strongly with the central characters, <a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2012\/05\/21\/news\/literature\" target=\"_blank\">a new study<\/a> (and a million Twi-hards) finds.<\/li>\n<li>In other research news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/07\/do-high-altitudes-shape-languages\/277625\/\" target=\"_blank\">a controversial linguistics study<\/a> suggests that high altitude can directly impact the development of languages.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCivil libertarians and consumer advocates call it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/07\/ideas-bank\/how-amazon-kindled-the-bookburners-flames\" target=\"_blank\">digital book-burning<\/a>: censoring, erasing, altering or restricting access to books in electronic formats.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The activist group Geeks Out has called for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/07\/09\/geeks-out-activists-call-for-enders-game-boycott-over-authors-anti-lgbt-views\/\" target=\"_blank\">a boycott<\/a> of the upcoming <em>Ender\u2019s Game\u00a0<\/em>film in protest of author Orson Scott Card, who opposes same-sex marriage. Card responds, in part, \u201c<em>Ender\u2019s Game<\/em> is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In less fraught <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/theplaylist\/guillermo-del-toro-wants-benedict-cumberbatch-for-frankenstein-charlie-kaufman-writing-slaughterhouse-five-20130706\" target=\"_blank\">lit-cinematic news<\/a>, Charlie Kaufman is taking on the adaptation of <em>Slaughterhouse-Five.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading can affect the behavior of those who identify strongly with the central characters, a new study (and a million Twi-hards) finds. In other research news: a controversial linguistics study suggests that high altitude can directly impact the development of languages. \u201cCivil libertarians and consumer advocates call it digital book-burning: censoring, erasing, altering or restricting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[2968,11360,1277,10065,5737],"class_list":["post-55894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-censorship","tag-charlie-kaufman","tag-linguistics","tag-orson-scott-card","tag-slaughterhouse-five"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>High-Altitude Language, and Other News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A study linking reading and behavior, digital book-burning, Orson Scott Card protest, and more book news for July 10, 2013.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/high-altitude-language-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High-Altitude Language, and Other News by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 10, 2013 \u2013 Reading can affect the behavior of those who identify strongly with the central characters, a new study (and a million Twi-hards) finds. 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