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@eleder @bibliolater @linguistics In German, we have "übermorgen" (literally the same as overmorrow (or to be precise "overtomorrow"?)) and "vorgestern", meaning pre-yesterday 🤔
But having a word for two days before/after sounds a bit special, yet I'm not a linguist or the like. Doesn't Basque have a word for "two days before yesterday"?
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@shaedrich @bibliolater @linguistics It's not so bizarre, no? "The day before yesterday" in Spanish is "anteayer" and in Basque "herenegun", "after tomorrow" in Basque is "etzi"... (in fact in Basque we even have "two days after tomorrow", "etzidamu")...
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@bibliolater @linguistics Well, English did have words for the day after tomorrow and before yesterday: overmorrow and ereyesterday
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William Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth I, was pretty amazing. He wrote a book on the magnet describing how he discovered many facts about magnetism. He approached it with an experimental mindset rather than philosophical. This was pretty amazing for 1600.
<strong>The Shocking Origin of the Word “Electric”</strong>
"_Gilbert employed the Latin electricus to describe the observation that when you rub amber against some substances like wool or a cat’s fur, it sticks to the amber. We now that this clinging—and the zaps that appear between the amber and the substance rubbed against it—is due to static, but at the time, Gilbert supposed amber to be magnetic._"
https://uselessetymology.com/2024/05/31/the-shocking-origin-of-the-word-electric/
#English #Language #Word #Words #Etymology #Linguistics @linguistics
#Image attribution: Benoît Prieur, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://tinyurl.com/374cd39t
<strong>Mapping automatic social media information disorder. The role of bots and AI in spreading misleading information in society</strong>
"_The analysis focused on four research questions: 1) the distribution of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation across different platforms; 2) recurring themes in fake news and their visibility; 3) the role of artificial intelligence as an authoritative and/or spreader agent; and 4) strategies for combating information disorder. The role of AI was highlighted, both as a tool for fact-checking and building truthiness identification bots, and as a potential amplifier of false narratives._"
Tomassi A, Falegnami A, Romano E (2024) Mapping automatic social media information disorder. The role of bots and AI in spreading misleading information in society. PLOS ONE 19(5): e0303183. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303183
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SocialMedia #Twitter #X #Facebook #Misinformation #Disinformation #Malinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @socialmedia
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Japan’s universities will receive 10 billion yen (around US$63 million) to build the digital infrastructure needed to make papers free to read. Sounds like a lot but isn't. #academicCHater #academia #openaccess #scholarlypublishing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01493-8
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“When I say ‘I am hungry’, I am reporting on my sensed physiological states. When an LLM generates the sequence ‘I am hungry’, it is simply generating the most probable completion of the sequence of words in its current prompt.”
https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6980134/ai-llm-not-sentient/
<strong>Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang</strong>
"_Researchers already knew that in a universe with so-called dark energy, but without matter, the start of inflation identified in the BGV theorem is a coordinate singularity that can be eliminated. But the real universe has matter, of course. Might mathematical tricks also make it possible to get around its singularity? The researchers showed that if the amount of matter is negligible compared to the amount of dark energy, then the singularity can be eliminated._"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-attempt-to-glimpse-past-the-big-bang-20240531/
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With parts of England flooded again, a reminder that one key reason is that our winters are getting wetter as the world is warming.
Lots of variation from year-to-year but winter rainfall has increased by ~27% overall since records began in 1837.
<strong>The Export Of Capital To Colonies And The Falling Rate Of Profit In Economic Thought: 1776-1917</strong>
"_The colonization of South Africa, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand was closely linked with European emigration. After 1870, colonization affected large areas of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific where the population remained overwhelmingly non-European (Bayly 2004). As an advocate of emigration writing in the 1830s, Wakefield argued that the main purpose of acquiring colonies was to extend the agricultural frontier by settling European farmers on previously uncultivated land._"
Walke, A. (2024) ‘THE EXPORT OF CAPITAL TO COLONIES AND THE FALLING RATE OF PROFIT IN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: 1776–1917’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837224000166.
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Modern English 'enough' comes from the Old English variant 'ġenōh', with an unvoiced fricative /x/ at the end. The variant 'ġenōg', with the voiced fricative /ɣ/, also continued to evolve but it followed a different path. Its final /ɣ/ became /w/ in Middle English, producing 'inow'. This was a regular sound change. Compare Old English 'būgan', which became 'bowen', now 'to bow'. Dutch 'buigen' and German 'biegen' preserved their g's.
'Inow' ultimately became Modern ...
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The word 'enough' has the same origin as German 'genug' and Dutch 'genoeg'.
However, unlike these words, 'enough' doesn't start with a g-. Moreover, contrary to what its spelling suggests, it ends with an /f/ sound.
When did these changes happen?
Click the video to listen to a reconstruction of how this word evolved over the past 2300 years.
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The greatest clock (and map) ever made:
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Daily newspaper drops #paywall, moves to reader #patronage, generates 37% more revenue - https://walledculture.org/daily-newspaper-drops-paywall-moves-to-reader-patronage-generates-37-more-revenue/ what's not to like? #copyright
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#Datacenters could use up to 9% of total #electricity generated in the #UnitedStates by #2030, more than doubling their current consumption, as technology companies pour funds into expanding their computing hubs, the Electric Power Research Institute said on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/data-centers-could-use-9-us-electricity-by-2030-research-institute-says-2024-05-29/
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12,500-Year-Old Settlement Discovered in Chile
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/pleistocene-settlement-chile-12957.html #archaeology #chile #settlement #Taguatagua #gomphothere
<strong>Biblical Gilgal: A Common Place Name or a Cult Site near Jericho?</strong>
"_Gilgal was a national cult centre of the Kingdom of Israel, and in several references its name appears alongside that of Bethel (1 Sam 7:16; 2 Kgs 2:1–2; Hos 4:15; 12:12; Amos 4:4; 5:4–5). Bethel, located in the highlands, was the seat of a national temple (see Amos 7:13) and the place where the golden calf, the animal sacred to the Storm God, represented the God of Israel in his temple._"
Naʾaman, N. (2024). Biblical Gilgal: A Common Place Name or a Cult Site near Jericho? Tel Aviv, 51(1), 59–72. https://doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2024.2327800
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Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
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