Boat on a Waveless lot of Lake
Boat on a waveless lot of lake, me and my game killed treking waters still uncharted on my own.
Still when the white pond in the black sky was descending, I was watchful for a quack or a crow.
Finally, duck calls now at last! But for some reason, in a circle of tight tall trees they had flown.
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Trees in a circle tightly packed-in were where ducks had arbored havens as they hid deep in those homes.
This is when I then had to follow; finding one single mesquite tree in the center, all alone.
These kinds of trees thrive in an arid situation, and is never among water unless thrown.
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Those very same ducks in a long line then had flown into the tree's cleft as if it'd been a blackhole.
After the ducks, some long horned deer, antlers like branches, went and walked onto the water liked skipped stones.
Neither their eyes, nor did my own meet. His objective's to be in that hollowed tree, strolling slow.
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Just when the deer entered the tree, horned branches turned arboreal, now taking shapes of wooden bones.
Just as the deer had disappeared into the tree, I lost my balance as my boat was being thrown.
Now as the deer lay resting calm, me and my boat flipped and were capsized and were dragged down by grooved woes.
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Favorite words
I keep a file on my computer of my favorite words, which are usually selected for phonaesthetic reasons, or because they are semantically or grammatically interesting. This is the list as of the most recent entries (”velico” and “Ushakaron”):
Individual words
analáugns (Gothic): hidden (nom. m. sg.)
anchorhold (English): the cell of an anchorite, in which the occupant is entombed as a kind of living saint
Apocryphan (invented): from World of Warcraft; proper name, of the pre-Cataclysm location “Apocryphan’s Rest” in the Badlands zone
armōsts (Gothic): poorest (nom. m. sg.)
ashkandi /,æʃ 'kɑn di/ (invented): proper name (World of Warcraft)
bearonæss /'bæɑɹ o ,næs/ (Old English): wooded headland (from bearu, "grove")
beinahrúgu (Old Norse): bone pile (dat. of beinahrúga)
carcern (Old English): prison (from Latin)
coalesce, coalescent (English)
crepuscular (English)
darkling (English): in darkness
daroð (Old English): javelin, projectile, “dart” in the older, more expansive sense
deliquesce (English), become liquid, esp. through organic decomposition
deosil (English): variant spelling of ‘deasil,’ turnwise; from Scottish Gaelic deiseil or deiseal, meaning ‘southward, sunward, counterclockwise;’ see also "widdershins," etymologically "anti-sunwise" and therefore counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere.
effloresce, efflorescence, efflorescent (English): to burst forth into bloom, to flower; from Latin effloresco, “I blossom, I flourish”
Enakro (invented): from Warcraft III; proper name, from the name of the multiplayer map “Enakro’s Way”
Eskhandar /'ɛsk hænd ,dɑɹ/ (invented): from World of Warcraft; proper name
etiäinen (Finnish): a type of folkloric apparition
exarch (English): a Byzantine provincial governor, particularly of an exarchate like Ravenna or Africa, from Greek ἔξαρχος.
fralusanō (Gothic): lost, gone away (nom. f. weak sg.)
gevaisa (invented): a tomb of living words; term of art among wizards of the Discworld; cf. Hebrew geniza, "a storeroom containing books which cannot be used, but which nevertheless cannot be destroyed because they contain God's name"
gnist (Danish): spark; related to OE gnāst, ON gniesta, SWE gnista, OHG gneisto, MHG gneiste
hellwara (Old English): ‘of the inhabitants of hell’ (gen. pl. of f. hellwaru or m. hellwaran)
hnasqus (Gothic): soft; cognate of OE hnesce, “soft,” ModE. dialectical nesh “wimpish, weak”
idaltu (Saho-Afar): elder, firstborn; cf. Homo sapiens idaltu, the (obsolete) classification of the “Herto man” specimen, human remains of about 150,000 years of age discovered in the Afar triangle, which were some of the oldest modern human remains known at the time of their description.
idreigonds (Gothic): repentant (nom. m. sg.)
iktsuarpok (English): the feeling of anticipation waiting for someone to arrive, often leading to repeatedly going outside to check for them; from Inuktitut ᐃᒃᑦᓱᐊᕐᐳᒃ itsoarpok, “goes outside repeatedly to check if a visitor has arrived yet.”
incunabulum (English): an early printed book; something in its infant stages; from Latin incunabula, ‘swaddling clothes, cradle, birthplace.” The change in ending is a result of the medieval form incunabulum, which was a singular back-formation of a noun previously found only in the plural.
incus (Latin): "anvil"
inwitwrāsen (Old English): ‘chain of deceit’
Iolanthe (Greek): proper name meaning ‘flower of the violet’
irgendwo (German): somewhere, anywhere
κακοΐλιον (Ancient Greek): proper name (‘Kakoilion’); dysphemism for Troy; compound of κᾰκός, “bad, vile, evil,” and Ἴλιον, “Ilion/Troy/Wilusa.” Translated variously as "evil Ilios" (A.T. Murray) or "Destroy" (Fagles, pun very much intended); a poetic hapax legomenon in Homer's Odyssey, used by Penelope for Troy.
kasterborous /kæs 'tɝɹ bɔɹ oʊs/ (invented): proper name of the constellation in Doctor Who containing Gallifrey; possibly Gallifreyan
lhammas (invented): the Elvish (Quenya?) name of a work of fictional sociolinguistics by J.R.R. Tolkien outlining the relationship of the languages of Middle Earth, later superseded; borrowed as a term for "a scheme of invented languages; the historical and aesthetic plan of languages in a constructed world; such scheme in the abstract, or a document laying out such a scheme"
lint (invented): quick, clever; possibly coined by Tolkien, and of no particular language; it formed the root of such words in several constructed languages of his that were unrelated, simply because he liked the sound-meaning relationship
listopad (Polish): November; literally, “leaf-fall”
mæw (Old English): seagull
mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan): glossed as ‘a look shared by two people wishing the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.’ The word is a regular derivation from ihlvpi, “to feel awkward, to be at a loss,’ with various grammatical affixes of voice, aspect, and so forth, and might be more accurately translated as ‘to make each other both feel awkward.’
narthex (English): antechamber or entrance area of some Christian churches; from Greek νάρθηξ, “giant fennel, box for ointments”
neorxnawang (Old English): ‘field of heaven’
opalescent (English): iridescent in a manner resembling opal
orcnaw (Old English): evident
razda (Gothic): voice
reordberend (Old English): ‘voice-bearer,’ i.e., a poetic word for a human being
ríastrad (Irish): battle frenzy, berserker rage, warp spasm
ruinenlust (German): literally ‘desire for ruins;’ yearning for the past evoked by ruins
Saoshyant /'saʊ ,ʃyənt/ (English): eschatological figure of Zoroastrian scripture and tradition who brings about the final renovation of the universe, the Frashokereti. From Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬊𐬳𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬧𐬝 saoš́iiaṇt̰.
Sargasso (English): proper name applied to a region of the western Atlantic; from Portuguese sargaço, of unknown ultimate origin)
searonet (Old English): web of guile, web of cunning
Sumer (English): proper name, from Akkadian Šumeru, of uncertain origin but potentially related to Hebrew שִׁנְעָר Shin’ar, Egyptian sꜣngꜣr , and Hittite Shanhar(a), all meaning “southern Mesopotamia;” has also been linked to the Sumerian endonym 𒊕𒈪𒂵 sag̃-gig-ga, “black-headed people, the Sumerians”
talast (Old English): 2nd person singular present active indicative: thou reckonest, thou dost consider
tīrfæst (Old English): glorious
tramountayne (Middle English fr. Latin via Italian): the north; the north wind; the north star (rare) (from Latin transmontanus)
Tuscarora (English): proper name of a Native American people, from Skarure skarū’ren’, “hemp gatherers.”
Tyree (English): found as a personal name and surname (cf. Mount Tyree in Antarctica, named for a U.S. Navy rear admiral); name of a fictional planet in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; from Tiree (Scottish Gaelic Tiriodh), the most westerly island of the Inner Hebrides.
Ushakaron (English): proper name of a star; according to unsourced claims, the triple star ξ Tauri, possibly from the Akkadian word for “avenger”
velico (Italian): sailing
westengryre (Old English): ‘terrors of the wasteland, terrors of the desert’
whyssyne (Middle English): cushion
wodwo (Middle English): woodwose, a wild man of the woods
þancoi (Old English): thoughtful
þystro (Old English): darkness (nom./acc. strong n. pl.)
Phrases or expressions
uncleftish beholding ("Uncleftish Beholding," by Poul Anderson, English): "atomic theory" as calqued into solely Germanic roots
proclarush taonas (Stargate SG-1, supposed ‘Ancient’ language): "Taonas, lost in fire"
varg í véum (Vǫlsunga Saga, Old Norse) "a wolf in holy places," i.e., an outlaw (equivalent to skógarmaðr)
wære fræton (Exodus, Old English): "they ate the treaty," i.e., they broke it
hapax legomenon (from Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον): a word which occurs only once in a manuscript or particular textual corpus
táiknái andsakanái (Gothic, Luke 2:34), “disputed sign,” cf. KJV, “a sign which will be contradicted.”
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And yet, SpaceX has put objects in space.
Twitter has been a hilarious dumpster fire to watch the last few weeks, with funnymen, discourse, bluechecks and memes. Now I want to take a step back to comment more broadly, and then drop the subject a while.
Elon Musk founded SpaceX, which put objects in space. Some engineers there spent thousands of words specifying what is meant by in space, and the company delivered on concrete physical useful things in space, in reality. You can call some of them and check. Elon Musk is what roon calls a "shape rotator".
By contrast, a lot of the people predicting doom for Musk and screaming that he's doing it wrong and he's a terrible person are what roon calls "wordcels", who are great at stringing words together but the words don't seem to have much relation to external reality. Here's a spectacular example:
Maue performs outrage that Twitter is no longer paying people to talk about another group of people who are talking about things related to climate. "The critical work", "the most pivotal" - shut the Hell up, Maue. You are not even wrong. You should have your adjective privileges revoked.
Actual critical work, meanwhile: build nuclear power plants. France has shown this to work. Most objections to nuclear power plants are already disproven in France.
(Regarding the alleged importance of COP27: I looked through its documents for a bit and it does not mention nuclear power in its "Science Day" nor "Decarbonization Day" nor "Solutions Day" sub-conference agendas. COP27 does have a "Gender Day", though. Deeply unserious people.)
Perhaps buying Twitter was a bad idea. Perhaps Elon Musk is going to lose money on it. I don't know. Perhaps national security is going to be involved somehow. There's a whole lot of things I don't know. So I make general inferences from this pair of observations: Musk has shown himself able to deliver physical deliverables that are very difficult, at scale -- while his critics appear to be overwhelmingly useless shitheads like Maue.
I would like to say "that's just a random shithead on Twitter" but it appears to be random shitheads all the way up, and Maue is just a particularly good example to hand. It's shitheads in the newspapers, shitheads among the spokespeople for various organizations, and that one extra-special shithead in Congress who thought it was cool to threaten Musk with the abuse of government power because Musk was not doing enough to stop "disinformation", a fashionable word these shitheads have appropriated to use as a dysphemism for "dissent".
Best wishes to Elon Musk, who isn't nearly as funny as he thinks he is, but is still quite entertaining and vastly preferable to the alternatives on offer.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
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LINGUISTICS
VOCABULARY
New Word of the Day is each.
Part of Speech: Adjective
Every one of two or more individually considered.
Etymology -> GERMAN
SYNONYM -> any
ANTONYM -> altogether
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New Word of the Day is efface.
Part of Speech: Verb
The action of efface will destory or remove something so that it can not be seen anymore.
Etymology -> LATIN
SYNONYM -> delete
ANTONYM -> conserve
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New Word of the Day is epiphany.
Part of Speech: Noun
A moment of sudden revelation or insight is called an epiphany.
EXAMPLE
I had an epiphany regarding the scientific methodology that we use as a doctor.
Etymology -> GREEK
Synonym is a term used for a word that has the same definition as another word in the same language.
SYNONYM -> realization
Antonym is a term used for a word that has the opposite definition as another word in the same language.
ANTONYM -> bewilderment
■Homonym
This term is defined as two or more words that have the same spelling or pronunciation, but each of these will have a different definition and origin.
□Homophone is defined as two or more words that have the same pronunciation, but each of these will have a different spelling, definition, and origin.
□Homograph is defined as two or more words that have the same spelling, but each of these will have a different pronunciation, definition, and origin.
■Heteronym
This term is defined as two or more words that have the same spelling but have a different definition and pronunciation.
■Polysemy
This term is used for a word that has multiple definitions.
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New word of the day is euphemism.
Part of Speech: Noun
Euphemism is a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Etymology -> GREEK
SYNONYM -> substitute
ANTONYM -> dysphemism
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