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One thing I used to do a lot on social-media is — post quotations.

Sometimes I was reading a book. And, I would quote things from the book and post it on social-media.

Or I was reading a scholarly paper, or reading a blog post, or watching a video, or listening to a podcast, etc.

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I was thinking — how could you represent a quotation in ActivityPub‽

“[And yet another book that made an argument that was in favor of human universals is] Brent Berlin and Paul Kay’s [book] "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution" (1969).” “by the early 1970s two independent lines of psychological research, culminating in studies conducted among preliterate peoples of New Guinea, had shown that there are universal facial expressions of emotions.” “Berlin and Kay show that although color classification does vary, it also shows remarkable uniformities: particularly in the sequence in which basic color terms are added to the lexicon.” “Anthropologists and linguists had long known that the way colors are classified varies from language to language. Careful studies conducted by anthropologists after World War II, such as Harold Conklin’s (1955) study of Hanunóo color words, made the point very clearly.” “The different sets of words for color in various languages …”
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If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/115213483474061396 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)