thwave

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by thwave 11mo ago
they could have seen tusks themselves, and relied on verbal descriptions for the rest of the animal.
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by thwave 5y ago
> Proclus (ca. 335 BC) Proclus, whose quote opens the section on Euclid, lived more than 700 years after this date, well into the 5th century AD. Euclid himself wasn't born till about decade after, in 325 BC.
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by thwave 5y ago
There's always inference.
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by thwave 5y ago
Unless gratefulness is actually binary (x is grateful for y), and directing this gratefulness towards someone is completely optional. (One might argue that the object of gratefulness is optional as well, and you can be grateful simpliciter,
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by thwave 5y ago
There are still some scholarly work written in Latin. For example see Terence O. Tunberg's book from 2013[0]. I highly recommend this[1] blog post about contemporary Latin knowledge. [0] https://www.amazon.com/rationibus
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by thwave 5y ago
Correct. The translated sentence ("my son was a gude and honourable mon, but Sparta has mony a mon better than him.") does ends with two distinctly Doric words: τήνω (there, i.e. in Sparta) κάρρονας (stronger/better), instead
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by thwave 5y ago
This footnote refers to Sayings of Kings and Commanders[0], another text of Plutarch, but is not related to the translation. [0] https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_sayings_k...
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by thwave 5y ago
Perseus Digital Library has a quite a few, in Greek as well. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe... https://scaife.perseus.org/library/
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by thwave 5y ago
My piano teacher used to say "It's not a video-game, you don't go back to the beginning of the level every time you lose."
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by thwave 5y ago
There's a very interesting comparison to be made between Wittgenstein and Spinoza, but saying something like "basically just a rehash" completely missed the point. Saying that Spinoza is "just a rehash" of Stoic ide
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by thwave 5y ago
> not brew, that one is also spyware how is brew spyware?
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by thwave 6y ago
The Latin for eight is octo.
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by thwave 6y ago
my nam is King of ancient land and haf my face is under sand and on a stone it can be read “the World is mine” but now I’m ded https://alexicon-art.tumblr.com/post/159203577946/ozymandias
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by thwave 6y ago
Very cool! Why do you need the Arduino for the heart-tempo? Can't you connect the pulse-sensor directly to the computer?
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by thwave 6y ago
What is and isn't evidence is for people to decide by themselves based on facts?
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by thwave 6y ago
Markdown has no reasonable support for RTL.
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by thwave 6y ago
just a nitpick: the proper plural is "caveant emptores".
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by thwave 6y ago
Dennō Coil[1] is a wonderful and innocent take on this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil
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by thwave 6y ago
Conlang Critic's episode on Esperanto is worth watching, if only for his criticism of Esperanto's phonology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sao9mCLy3Xo
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by thwave 7y ago
It also just means "a young wife", or "a marriageable maiden" in ancient Greek.
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by thwave 7y ago
It's not "average Germanic", but you should look at Anglish.
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by thwave 7y ago
I've tried it now and got 22k, which seems not so bad for a foreigner ("Top 6.53% Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!"), but I feel like I cheated: most of the more fancy English words are
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by thwave 7y ago
The best advice I ever heard: Every text you read is both an advice how to write and an advice how not to.
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by thwave 7y ago
There's a nice parallel in Ancient Greek, and from there to modern philosophical parlance: Eristic[0]. Here's Plato, for example: "it is on the purely verbal level that they look for the contradiction in what has been said, a
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by thwave 8y ago
Partly OT: I've checked a whole lot of note-taking, personal-wiki, bookmarking, outliners, et cetera, and none support Bidi[0] or RTL properly. Markdown editors fail most miserably, of course. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by thwave 8y ago
Very nice. Maybe you should include stars and last commit date in the search results, or even as filters.
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by thwave 9y ago
Solon[1] is my favorite example, and how I think a benevolent ruler should act; Write a good constitution and take a step back. I think Juan Carlos of Spain did something similar: "Expected to continue Franco's legacy, Juan Carlos
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by thwave 9y ago
A bit more about the etymology: δαίμων (daimon) in ancient greek is simply a god, or a divine spirit [1]. It appears earliest in the Iliad (1.222), and is probably related to the the root da: "from PIE dai-mon- "divider, provide