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Pretty neat to look at this wikipedia link https://goo.gl/kAR1LW https://goo.gl/kAR1LW and see the descent of a ton of words of English!
by kboukadoum 10y ago
Pretty neat to look at this wikipedia link https://goo.gl/kAR1LW https://goo.gl/kAR1LW and see the descent of a ton of words of English!
- grzm 10y agoPlease don't post URLs from shorteners as they obscure the destination URL.
- cooper12 10y agoThey also increase link rot (full urls give you at least some information like: the domain, date, and title slug) and deteriorate the open nature of the web by locking a link behind some company's proprietary database that is liable to disappear without a trace. Please just share the full link next time, even if it is long. > URL shorteners may be one of the worst ideas, one of the most backward ideas, to come out of the last five years... To someone in the future, it'll be like everyone from a certain era of history, say ten years of the 18th century, started speaking in a one-time pad of cryptographic pass phrases. - Presentation at PDAC 2011 by Jason Scott
- imh 10y agoIn the interest of other readers and posterity, the link goes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_words_by_country_or_language_of_origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_words_by_coun...