Dude, that's not new. It dates to, like, the mid-fourteenth century (http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=quotidian&allowed_in_frame=0). ;)I restored the word, like Joseph Smith! ;)
It is a cool word, though.
Is the dove associated with Jonah or Noah?Yes. ;)
I've heard that there are a lot of errors in that post, but I don't know the details. I just saw someone on Twitter saying that people on a genealogy forum were going nuts over the errors.I really don't know. However, many of those etymologies have been claimed (by the people with those names, among others) for a long time. Which doesn't make them right, of course.
Yeah, I mean we're talking about Yiddish after all.Not for all of the names, but for some of them.
I had no idea that it is the traditional language of the Talmud.???
Yeah, I mean we're talking about Yiddish after all. Is it considered a creole?
We constructed an elicitation paragraph to be read by each subject. The paragraph is written in English, and uses common English words, but contains a variety of difficult English sounds and sound sequences. The paragraph contains practically all of the sounds of English.
Associated Press editors announced a new stylebook change Saturday ahead of a session at the annual American Copy Editors Society's conference — the 2016 stylebook will lowercase the words "internet" and "web."
I'm actually at the conference where they announced that (though I missed that session), so it's all over my Twitter feed right now. Everyone's reaction: "Welcome to the 21st century, AP Stylebook."
Sadly, no. The AP Stylebook is just one popular style manual. Others might start following suit, but it might take a while before all the dictionaries reflect the changing style.
It took me three tries to get the one about college graduates, and I felt pretty dumb when I finally figured it out.Ditto.
Which part of the UK or Ireland are you from? (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html)
I got "Definitely not from around here are you? Your answers were closer to the average person outside of Ireland and Britain than anywhere inside it." My closest spots were London, Birmingham, and western and southwestern Ireland.
I'm sure this won't actually end the debateYeah, I'm sure.
but maybe it'll help convince some people to abandon the extra space.Well, I'm working on my co-worker (who sent it to me!), but she is still resisting.
I'm kind of annoyed that that story repeats the myth that the extra space is just a product of monospaced fonts on typewriters, though.Because that's simpler for people to remember than it started with (some) printing, and then it was adapted for typewriters, and then . . . .
New Yiddish-English #coronacoinage:Definition: Fatigued by (or over-exposed to) Zoom.
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Heh. It's always funny to see someone you know from one part of the internet pop up in another part.It is!
Also, that's a great word.And the Internet says, amen. ;)
Even before the pandemic, the world was at risk of losing more than a third of its remaining 6,800 languages. Hundreds have been lost in the last century, as development encroached on isolated villages, people migrated to urban centers, and new technologies and globalization saturated the world in a handful of dominant languages. Nearly 600 languages are critically endangered, according to UNESCO. Nearly 150 are spoken by no more than 10 people.
“By the end of this century, we will have a significant number of languages disappearing,” said Irmgarda Kasinskaite, who works on linguistic diversity with the U.N. cultural agency. “We don’t realize something’s gone until we lose it.”
This is why I find the word problematic to be, well, problematic.
Similarly, the efficiency brought about by standardisation can shape how we write, not just what we write. When clarity is put ahead of stylistic or poetic flair – Word's grammar checker has a specific "clarity" refinement option – it can have implications for how we value forms of creativity.
Based on a quick, albeit arbitrary, experiment, if Harper Lee had used Word to write To Kill a Mockingbird, the software's clarity refinement would have suggested changing: "I never loved to read. One does not love breathing," to "I never loved to read. Breathing is necessary." Does this remove the poetry and depth of the original? The example is somewhat facetious, but it illustrates the effects using such tools can have.