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I think it's just a spelling variation. "Ae" or "æ" does show up in English words sometimes, but a lot of times it gets simplified to "e" (probably closer to th

I think it's just a spelling variation. "Ae" or "æ" does show up in English words sometimes, but a lot of times it gets simplified to "e" (probably closer to the pronunciation). Examples: "aeon"/"eon", "caesium"/"cesium", "paediatrician"/"pediatrician", "anaesthesia"/"anesthesia", "haemoglobin"/"hemoglobin", and "chimaera"/"chimera". And more debatably, "daemon"/"demon" and "aeroplane"/"airplane". Generally, British spellings are more likely to have "ae" and American spellings are more likely to have "e". But it only gets dropped in some words. You never see "erobic exercise", "erospace engineering", "erosol spray", or a conductor being called "mestro".

mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
You forgot my favorite one: "vaginæ"/"vaginae" is an archaic plural of "vagina". But "vagine" is not to be seen in any dictionaries afaik. Cracks me up because Æ is a letter in the Norwegian alphabet with a completely different sound than the ae diphtong in English. So to me it looks like you started saying "vagina" but started screaming at the end.
foobarbecue 4y ago
Hm. Aesthetics really doesn't make sense in the context. Ethics does.
- adrianmonk 4y ago
  To me, aesthetics does fit. It has two different meanings. One refers to the overall subject area of beauty, like, "This warehouse isn't pretty, but the people who made it weren't thinking of aesthetics." The other meaning refers to a particular artistic style or concept of beauty. For example, minimalism is an aesthetic, because to some people a clean look is beautiful. You might say the main page at google.com has a minimalist aesthetic. If a programmer has a certain sense of what they feel is beautiful, they can incorporate that into their code and the way they go about creating it. So you could say Mel's sense of what makes code beautiful is deep knowledge of the computer and clever code that ties in with that.

mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago

You forgot my favorite one: "vaginæ"/"vaginae" is an archaic plural of "vagina". But "vagine" is not to be seen in any dictionaries afaik. Cracks me up because Æ is a letter in the Norwegian alphabet with a completely different sound than the ae diphtong in English. So to me it looks like you started saying "vagina" but started screaming at the end.

foobarbecue 4y ago

Hm. Aesthetics really doesn't make sense in the context. Ethics does.

adrianmonk 4y ago
To me, aesthetics does fit. It has two different meanings. One refers to the overall subject area of beauty, like, "This warehouse isn't pretty, but the people who made it weren't thinking of aesthetics." The other meaning refers to a particular artistic style or concept of beauty. For example, minimalism is an aesthetic, because to some people a clean look is beautiful. You might say the main page at google.com has a minimalist aesthetic. If a programmer has a certain sense of what they feel is beautiful, they can incorporate that into their code and the way they go about creating it. So you could say Mel's sense of what makes code beautiful is deep knowledge of the computer and clever code that ties in with that.