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by stevula 6y ago
This sounds like a fantastic way to filter out non-native English speakers. Also anyone lacking exposure to archaic English, since "cleft" is rarely used outside of constructions like "cleft chin/palate". "clea
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by stevula 6y ago
> In English I find it kind of unnecessary that we use a Latin word for adjectives when we have a Germanic noun already; wolf, dog, neck, liver, and kidney While "dog" does go back to Old English, it's actually of unknown
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by stevula 6y ago
I think the point was that the difficulty for machines is not the differential diagnosis, but in coaxing out the right details of patient history to feed into that algorithm. I don’t know if differential diagnosis is automatable but machine
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by stevula 6y ago
It seems to pass faster as you get older.
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by stevula 6y ago
According to Wiktionary, the existing Middle English word "cury" (= "cooking") may have influenced the word. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry#Etymology_1
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by stevula 6y ago
1. Is the suggestion to use unisex names like Alex and Taylor instead? Do we have to say Candidate A and Candidate B? 2. Did you find Alice was a negative gender stereotype in the post? I actually had the opposite impression: Bob is a free
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by stevula 6y ago
I find most landlords aren’t willing to push back the move-in date on a new place more than a couple weeks in SF. So if I find a place to move into in 14 days, I’ll then give my 30 days notice and end up paying double rent for about half a
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by stevula 6y ago
It seems like the cause of the explosion is not yet known, but the incident itself is reminiscent of the Stuxnet attack of yesteryear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
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Mysterious Explosion and Fire Damage Iranian Nuclear Enrichment Facility(nytimes.com)
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by stevula 6y ago
It’s remarkable that some people would rather believe an entire race has a victim complex than that they might be facing a legitimate injustice.
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by stevula 6y ago
Infant circumcision (common in the US).
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by stevula 6y ago
I think we can safely say that Reddit content is organized in a way that should be conducive to deep linking (each post and comment thread has a unique and permanent URL). Their deep links generally work well for me though, unlike some othe
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by stevula 6y ago
> Doesn't that also explain why our pronouns are Scandinavian rather than the ones found in Old English or old Norman? I think only the third person plural (they/their/them) is of Old Norse origin (ON þeir supplanting OE h
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by stevula 6y ago
While the sense evolution from owing to obligation is clear, it would definitely sound weird now to say “you should a tribute”.
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by stevula 6y ago
To be fair, I recently searched for a Middle English grammar and pretty much everyone said to just learn by reading with a commentary. It’s close enough to Modern English that you can approach it more like reading an odd dialect.
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by stevula 6y ago
There's probably some semantic overlap between "beaste" and "dere" (various spellings) in the Middle English period. "dere" could refer to small animals (possibly frogs?) or specifically to deer in the mod
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by stevula 6y ago
Via the medicinal sense of "dose"
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by stevula 6y ago
egge being derived from Norse, while eye/eai/etc from Anglo-Saxon æg. The final g eventually came to be pronounced like a y in that environment, a development that apparently did not affect the Old Norse word -- probably due to be
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by stevula 6y ago
There's something very charming about Middle English to me. Here's my overly etymological translation to point out the vocabulary correspondence to Modern English (minus the archaic -th endings): "A frog is a small beast with
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by stevula 6y ago
I've recently started practicing calligraphy and, for each script, there is a prescribed stroke order (called a "ductus").
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by stevula 6y ago
Many food regulations seem to be based on people’s traditional idea of cleanliness than on actual salutary benefits. I doubt hair and cockroaches are huge disease vectors but I still don’t want them in or near my food.
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by stevula 6y ago
Also make sure you have iCloud enabled so you can access the video later if your device is damaged or lost.
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by stevula 6y ago
And yet in Vallejo this week a Latino man was shot for suspicion of having a gun in his pocket (not a crime) which turned out to be a hammer (also not a crime).
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by stevula 6y ago
Wikipedia and Etymonline label it as a probably folk etymology.
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by stevula 6y ago
This is the alleged leaked draft from the other day: https://kateklonick.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DRAFT-EO-...
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by stevula 6y ago
Check out WeakMap and related weak- data structures. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by stevula 6y ago
It’s interesting because English has not used grammatical gender for inanimate objects for quite some time (aside from a few exceptions such as ships). I don’t think I’ve seen the sun referred to as “he” in other 19th century writings.
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by stevula 7y ago
Indeed. “Until” is originally a compound of “till” (prefixed), so “till” came first. https://www.etymonline.com/word/until
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by stevula 7y ago
From TFA: > However, critics of the partnership fast discovered that GoFundMe was setting the recommended tip, which is how GoFundMe funds its own operations, at 15 percent.
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by stevula 7y ago
Gofundme sets the default “tip” (kept by Gofundme) to 15% of the donation. > However, critics of the partnership fast discovered that GoFundMe was setting the recommended tip, which is how GoFundMe funds its own operations, at 15 percent

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