Tuesday:1. Super fun conversation about the pronunciation of "gif" -- this conversation, which occurs near me periodically, is not normally so great, but we had the right combo of linguistics knowledge, history, pickiness, and just messing with people to make it highly entertaining ( Read more... )

1. http://mentalfloss.com/article/52332/12-animal-adjectives-bolster-your-vocabulary and it is possible that "anguish" could be related to snakes via narrowness, which would be AWESOME. I mean, I like snakes, but how cool is that ( Read more... )

"Exine" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Exene.

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Work continues intense and not very successful. 12-hour day yesterday, going in again today for hopefully not too long. Here are some good things, though ( Read more... )

Loud is love.

(It makes me so sad that so many people have qwerty keyboards on their phones now! They're missing out.)

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Wow, this is delightful: A tool that automatically color-codes English words based on their language of origin, and different text samples analyzed with it.

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Since the growth room has aphids anyway, I'm not being quite so extremely careful not to get any pests on me, which means I've actually entered the greenhouse a couple of times recently and this morning I chose to walk through the Medicinal Herb Garden on the way back from the library ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, but I'm really having trouble with this. I am quite certain that Twilight Sparkle would use the subjunctive correctly. I'm only five minutes into this series and would like to know whether my suspension of disbelief will undergo any other dreadful assaults before I invest further effort.

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Telesia, corundum (ruby or sapphire). Originally télésie, from τελέσια, plural neuter of τελέσιος finishing, completing, perfecting; meaning "a perfect body" (Haüy, 1796), according to Victoria Finlay at least. Haüy seems to have distinguished sapphire from ruby at the time, but later usage made this a blanket term for corundum stones.

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