Heuristic: encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand or solve problems on his or her own.

[beboots]

Man, reading stuff from the 1830s has really improved my vocabulary. I've been reading things like the 1839 "Report on Indian Affairs" by J.B.Macaulay. (According to our prof., this will make us forty people join a group of about maybe forty other living people in the entire world who have ever actually bothered to read this 89 page document in

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[dayadhvam_triad]

ISOAGGLUTINATION

most random word ever. It's like fermentation of rice or something--I only know this from my dad (plant pathology). Also, "jasmonic." :P

I've heard of due South. I was under the impression dS fandom was one of the early middle-size flourishing fandoms.

[beboots]

Ooh... good to know! That means that when I finally get around to watching all of it, there shall be fanfic to console me that I've finished! :D

... Also, good words! :D

[anyjen]

That really is a magnificient beard... I wonder how he managed to eat without getting food all over it? :P

Interesting words... uh... not recently, no. I do have a certain fondness for "sartorial" and "wont" (as in, "to be wont to do something"), though, and will find any excuse to use them...