When it comes to getting a deeper understanding of words you already know, two of my favorite resources are Etymonline [1] and the 1913 edition of Webster’s dictionary [2]. And if you’re curious why 1913 specifically, this post [3] gives a great overview.
Could it be at all possible that I did that on purpose? Perchance I chose to make the exact "mistake" the GP made, and call him out for it at the same time because the irony of it would be funny?
You must think other people are deeply, abysmally, troglodytically stupid if you thought one could make that comment without self-awareness.
Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. If you did, then maybe you did not do a very good job of communicating that? I mean, until telepathy over TCP finally arrives, all we have to go on is basically ASCII.
> You must think other people are deeply, abysmally, troglodytically stupid if you thought one could make that comment without self-awareness.
I suspect you inhabit a different part of the Internet than me. I envy you.
what would make a "word of the day" stream compelling to me would be a word that reflected recent news. William Safire did this to some extent in his weekly column in the NY Times and it was usually pretty interesting.
a way to increase the discovery of relevance could be looking up the etymologies of words that pop up, I'm always fascinated by how complex and interesting etymologies are
I think it would be interesting to incorporate loan words or phrases. Often these words become loan words because there's no good English equivalents so loan words/phrases sort of expand our ability to grapple these concepts.
Nice, anoter James Somers blog post/project, I like. Love your articles, dude. And have a bunch on my reading list to catch up on.
When it comes to getting a deeper understanding of words you already know, two of my favorite resources are Etymonline [1] and the 1913 edition of Webster’s dictionary [2]. And if you’re curious why 1913 specifically, this post [3] gives a great overview.
[1] https://www.etymonline.com/
[2] https://www.websters1913.com/
[3] https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
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https://wordsmith.org/words/today.html doesn't suck
No cap, but the first ten-ish were already well known to me. Might be worth mentioning you're pitching below not-particularly-well-read this guy.
With entries like "marketing" the point must be in the elaboration and not in the introduction of the word
Bruh said "no cap" on HN
> Bruh
Those who live in glass houses should not attempt to hang paintings, methinks.
Could it be at all possible that I did that on purpose? Perchance I chose to make the exact "mistake" the GP made, and call him out for it at the same time because the irony of it would be funny?
You must think other people are deeply, abysmally, troglodytically stupid if you thought one could make that comment without self-awareness.
Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. If you did, then maybe you did not do a very good job of communicating that? I mean, until telepathy over TCP finally arrives, all we have to go on is basically ASCII.
> You must think other people are deeply, abysmally, troglodytically stupid if you thought one could make that comment without self-awareness.
I suspect you inhabit a different part of the Internet than me. I envy you.
They could use those little sticky velcro 'Commander' strips and it would work out ok
Point well taken.
what would make a "word of the day" stream compelling to me would be a word that reflected recent news. William Safire did this to some extent in his weekly column in the NY Times and it was usually pretty interesting.
a way to increase the discovery of relevance could be looking up the etymologies of words that pop up, I'm always fascinated by how complex and interesting etymologies are
I think it would be interesting to incorporate loan words or phrases. Often these words become loan words because there's no good English equivalents so loan words/phrases sort of expand our ability to grapple these concepts.
how very entrepreneurial of you