from the haughty emotions of English lexicon, stylistic concerns, decipherment of grammar ＆ idioms, linguisticality, literature ＆ literality, and logicality.
what kinda diluted milk is that?
my fav dict, the American Heritage, gives
“Behaving or acting impulsively or rashly; wild.”
now, that's respect to language.
madcap «1580s, noun and adjective, from mad (adj.) + cap, used here figuratively for “head.” Related: Madcappery.»
Her work reflects the neoclassical revival of the 1920s, to which Picasso contributed with his colossal seaside nudes. Lempicka belongs to the line of painters, extending through Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who stress sharp outlines and sculptural mass. Indeed, a contemporary critic, noting Lempicka's heavy, languid forms and polished surfaces, called her “the perverse Ingres of the Machine Age.” She admired Botticelli, Antonello da Messina, and Mannerists like Bronzino and Pontormo, with their refined, armored style. Her subjects were the glittering habitués of postwar Paris café society, where new money met old and where cosmopolitan refugees mixed with Jazz Age entertainers and madcap youth.
from Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars amazon
Vocabulary in 《A Tale of Two Cities》
This defines the word “funky”. Watch the caper and caprice, prance and tug — a play of youthful love birds.
English Writing: to An or Not to An
The exigency of mating: when you are coming, everything else is irrelevant, even death. Blondie ⭑ 〈Atomic〉 🎶
when the pressures of life impinges you, feign death.
the Diva Dance Song from The Fifth Element 🎶
what language is that? A site tests you skills. http://greatlanguagegame.com/play/
On the Naming of Eigenvector and the Igon Value Problem
in the language of human animals, there's “yes” and “no”.
yes signifies consent, accordance, concurrence, affirmation, acknowledgement, approval, positiveness, and, pleasure.
no means no.
there are many synonyms of yes, ⁖ aye, yeah, yep, yup, agree, true, uh-huh, yesh (diminutive uttered by furries), but there are a million euphemisms for no.
Negative, nuu, huh, what, oh look Dinasour!
a dysphemism for no is f��k U.
meh.
Easy Ways to Remember Latitude ＆ Longitude and Their Order
English Accent: Australian Accent 📺 (added a new video)
According to historical legend, the phrase “Laissez-faire” stems from a meeting in about 1680 between the powerful French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert and a group of French businessmen led by a certain M. Le Gendre. When the eager mercantilist minister asked how the French state could be of service to the merchants and help promote their commerce, Le Gendre replied simply “Laissez-nous faire” (“Let us be”, literally “Let us do”).
Good news for those of you studying the logical language lojban. Evan Rysdam has started to post a-word-a-day. Subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban-valsi/
you can also read my old tutorial at Xah's lojban Tutorial
i can't help but think of the word lugubrious
Mario Sisters Cosplay, Jessica Nigri and Lindsay Elyse
see also Mario Brothers Piranha Plant Earring
Q: What's the news? A: that you are decipher'd, that's the news. Titus Andronicus: Act 4 #nsa
“Then let the ladies tattle what they please.” Titus Andronicus: Act 4
today's words ＆ idioms: tenderness, verve, slovenliness, finesse, “dressed up to the nines”. Madonna ⭑ 〈Don't Cry For Me Argentina〉 🎶
How to Increase Your English Vocabulary? (old article, updated.)
new funny video. English Accent: US American Accent 📺
yester i discovered a mysterious site called waitbutwhy。By my ∞ wisdom ＆ meticulous analysis，i foretell，it's a female.
for you queer buffs, today's quip is bought to you buy: yester, buff, meticulousness, and in conjunction with foretell.
Quine could lecture in French, Spanish, Portuguese and German, as well as his native English. But like the logical positivists, he evinced little interest in the philosophical canon: only once did he teach a course in the history of philosophy, on Hume.
vocabulary: dole, misanthropic, promiscuous, flaunts, facade, asphyxiates, callous, sober, grudgingly, inebriated. Bedrock ⭑ 〈For What You Dream Of〉 (Trainspotting) 🎶
Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular material (such as sand or silt), clay, and water…
Quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid: when undisturbed, it often appears to be in a solid (“gel” form), but a minor (less than 1%) change in the stress on the quicksand will cause a sudden decrease in its viscosity (“sol” form)…
Because of the higher density of the quicksand, it would be impossible for a human or animal to entirely sink in the quicksand…
The way to escape is to wiggle the legs as slowly as possible in order to reduce viscosity, to try spreading the arms and legs far apart and lying supine to increase the body's surface area, which should allow one to float.[3]
A colloid is a substance microscopically dispersed throughout another substance. (a good example is milk, which is an emulsified colloid of liquid butterfat globules dispersed within a water-based solution.)
A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid whose flow properties differ in any way from those of Newtonian fluids. Most commonly the viscosity (measure of a fluid's ability to resist gradual deformation by shear or tensile stresses) of non-Newtonian fluids is dependent on shear rate or shear rate history.
a good example of non-Newtonian fluid is ketchup. Once disturbed, it flows readily. So, this means, shake it first.
1711, said to be from Malay kichap, but probably not original to Malay. It might have come from Chinese koechiap “brine of fish,” which, if authentic, perhaps is from the Chinese community in northern Vietnam [Terrien de Lacouperie, in “Babylonian and Oriental Record,” 1889, 1890]. Catsup (earlier catchup, 1680s) is a failed attempt at Englishing, still in use in U.S., influenced by cat and sup.
Originally a fish sauce, the word came to be used in English for a wide variety of spiced gravies and sauces; “Apicius Redivivus; or, the Cook's Oracle,” by William Kitchiner, London, 1817, devotes 7 pages to recipes for different types of catsup (his book has 1 spelling of ketchup, 72 of catsup), including walnut, mushroom, oyster, cockle and mussel, tomata, white (vinegar and anchovies figure in it), cucumber, and pudding catsup. Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1870) lists mushroom, walnut, and tomato ketchup as “the three most esteemed kinds.” Tomato ketchup emerged c.1800 in U.S. and predominated from early 20c.
愛字中间一个屌 Chinese Character “Love” Has a … in Middle
been listening to these songs for 2 decades. Seems every day. My life is a monotonic infatuation. Augustness, Austerity, the Pain, the Suffering: 4 Piano Pieces to Die For
I construe, therefore I am. (from https://twitter.com/barfton)
logic ＆ linguistics. The Logical Levels of Interpretation
vocabulary: augustness, austerity. Augustness, Austerity, the Pain, the Suffering: 4 Piano Pieces to Die For
“if you learned to speak lojban, your communication would be completely umambiguous ＆ logical.” “Yeah, but it would all be with the kind of people who learn lojban.” Xah's lojban Tutorial
vocabulary: maudlin, sentimentalities, upheavals, nonchalant. ABBA ⭑ 〈The Day Before You Came〉 🎶
“He hath given his empire, Up to a whore.” — Daddy English
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumviri and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterised by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.
Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare's work.:p.45 She is frequently vain and histrionic, provoking an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare's efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses.
histrionic «“theatrical” (figuratively, “hypocritical”), 1640s, from Latin histrionicus “pertaining to an actor,” from histrio (genitive histrionis) “actor,” said to be of Etruscan origin. The literal sense in English is from 1759.»
exuberance «1630s, from French exubérance (16c.), from Latin exuberantia "superabundance," noun of state from exuberare (see exuberant). Exuberancy attested from 1610s.»
Vocabulary in 《A Tale of Two Cities》
twerk: The rhythmic gyrating of the lower fleshy extremities in a lascivious manner.
“O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.”
Moulin Rouge, C'est Féerie 🎶 (updated with video and lyrics)
English Accent: Scottish Accent 📺 (updated)
Love in Beijing: Chinese Girls Good in Bed, American Girls …
Hooker is the look, somber is the music. Requiem for a Dream Theme Song
there's a dude sitting besides me on the airplane, playing Angry Birds on iPad. All of a sudden, he shouts: “i've got 2 bombs, go to hell you stupid pigs”. I jumped, and all the passengers wet their pants.
飞机上有个二逼坐我旁边用iPad玩愤怒的小鸟，玩着玩着突然激动地大吼一声：“我有两个炸弹！都他妈死吧蠢猪们！”当时吓了我一大跳…… 那天飞机上的其他乘客也都吓尿了...... (from xie107)
Google translated this:
JavaScript: Fade a Element Using CSS Transition
to:
JavaScript的：褪色元素使用CSS過渡
In English, it means “Of JavaScript: the element of faded color used CSS too much”
Wahaha.
Oxytocin Molecule Necklace. 有诗为证：科学符号缀乳沟，莽汉上弓书呆瞪。Even as the poet doth indite: science symbols on cleavage, jockeys mount and nerds stare. Oxytocin Molecule Necklace
poetry. 王菲 — 彼岸花 (Flower of Paradise) 🎶
Sum of Angles of Triangle on Girl's Chest
There's a curious phenomenon in Chinese Weibo (microblog). That is, normally the character limit is to make user's post dense and focused. However, Chinese people started to use image instead for long Chinese articles. The transmission size of a image is a thousand times greater than text, and it can't be searched, nor resized clearly. Strangely, English microblogs such as twitter haven't developed this phenomenon.
中文 Weibo 有个奇妙的现象。本来限制字数，基其让人话简语重。但，用户开始把长篇大轮以图发出。这一下，一张图是文子码数位大小的百倍，又不能搜索，又不能清楚的字体放大。美国英语 Twitter 类比较没有这现象。奥妙。
Google's software quality's been downhill in recent years, and their “don't be evil” isn't what it used to be. There's massive exodus among geeks of Google products.
Jack London's famous short fiction, To Build a Fire. 杰克·伦敦，著名的短篇小说《生火》
what a curious world. The Rage Comics, from US's 4chan.org went to China, and now the Chinese version developed its own Chinese cultural ＆ linguistic elements mixed in.
世界真有趣。暴走漫画 (Rage Comics) 从美国 http://4chan.org/ 这种网站传到中国，且加入了中国风味。— #王尼玛#！
His wife, Dana Reeve, headed the Christopher Reeve Foundation after his death. She was diagnosed with lung cancer on August 9, 2005, and died on March 6, 2006.[92]
They are survived by their son, William, and Reeve's son Matthew and daughter Alexandra, both from his relationship with Gae Exton. Christopher is also survived by his parents and Dana is survived by her father. Matthew and Alexandra now serve on the board of directors for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.[93]
from Christopher Reeve
Tetraplegia, also known as quadriplegia, is paralysis caused by illness or injury to a human that results in the partial or total loss of use of all their limbs and torso.
paraplegia is similar but does not affect the arms. The loss is usually sensory and motor, which means that both sensation and control are lost.
from Wikipedia Quadriplegia
A well-known Google employer, Meng, who collects photos of celebrities visiting Google. Check out his album with many celebrities. See: Meng's celebrity photos
when you look at photos of celebrities, they don't look so pretty as one'd remember in movies or tv. Many looked surprisingly haggard.
“What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?” — Titus Andronicus: Act 5
In United Kingdom, they call a girl “bird”, analogous to the US slang “chick”.
it's wrong to call a girl “bird”, because, “bird” is descendant of dinosaur. Dinosaur are not cuddly creatures.
The soybean (US) or soya bean (UK) (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean which has numerous uses. The plant is classed as an oilseed rather than a pulse by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
Fat-free (defatted) soybean meal is a significant and cheap source of protein for animal feeds and many prepackaged meals; soy vegetable oil is another product of processing the soybean crop. For example, soybean products such as textured vegetable protein (TVP) are ingredients in many meat and dairy analogues. Soybeans produce significantly more protein per acre than most other uses of land.
Traditional nonfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, and from the latter tofu and tofu skin. Fermented foods include soy sauce, fermented bean paste, natto, and tempeh, among others. The oil is used in many industrial applications. The main producers of soy are the United States (35%), Brazil (27%), Argentina (19%), China (6%) and India (4%). The beans contain significant amounts of phytic acid, alpha-linolenic acid, and isoflavones.
A pulse (Latin “puls”, from Ancient Greek πόλτος poltos “porridge”), sometimes called a “grain legume”, is an annual leguminous crop yielding from one to twelve seeds of variable size, shape, and color within a pod. Pulses are used for food for humans and other animals. Included in the pulses are: dry beans like pinto beans, kidney beans and navy beans; dry peas; lentils; and others.
Logic Writing Style: the Incongruousness of the Word “Actually”
now, all classic tales and essays on this site has JavaScript highlighting feature. For example, go to the Story of Cupid and Psyche, hoover annotated words to see its annotation highlighted.
some selection of other stories and essays with heavy annotation:
Arabian Nights. Spectacular tale. The First Kalandar's Tale
today's words: multiplex, hymn, chorale, stark, bunting. Arcade Fire — Abraham's Daughter (Hunger Games Ending Credits Song) 🎶
today's word: Elysium. Portishead — Elysium 🎶
Portishead — Wandering Stars 🎶
starting to banish the article “the” in my writings. Mostly. Banish the f�ck out of it of the universe.
what accent is the girl? New England?
English Accent: British Accent 2 📺
Google Translate does Rap (beatboxing) 📺
updated. Online English Dictionary Tools
when you type “weather” or “whether”, make sure you don't botch it into wether, because that could be devastating.
St. Patrick's Day, although not a legal holiday anywhere in the United States, is nonetheless widely recognised and celebrated throughout the country. It is primarily observed as a celebration of Irish and Irish American culture; celebrations include prominent displays of the colour green, feasting, copious consumption of alcohol, religious observances, and numerous parades. The holiday has been celebrated on the North American continent since the late eighteenth century.
from Saint Patrick's Day
☘. Shamrock
The shamrock refers to the young sprigs of clover or trefoil. It is known as a symbol of Ireland, with St. Patrick having used it as a metaphor for the Christian Trinity, according to legend. The name shamrock is derived from Irish seamróg, which is the diminutive version of the Irish word for clover (seamair) meaning simply “little clover” or “young clover”.
watch this. English Accent: British Accent 📺. What's the exact locality of the brother sister's accent?
heard of science news of turning excrement into artificial food? The idea is also in Gulliver's Travels 1726 Gulliver's Travels. PART III. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN.
some fantastic readings, on language and logic.
