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[AlephZero]

Stop changing the rules Your first post said "word". It didn't say anything about dictionaries. Are you arguing that "London" (for example) isn't a "word"?

Anyway, Llama is a Peruvian word, not English, and the ll spelling was probably from Spanish, not English. (So it really ought to be a yiama, not a llama).

 

[zoobyshoe]

"Sequipedalian" is the only word in the English language that means what it means.

 

[davenn]

OK my 2 cents
since Alphazero commented on stop changing the rules "word in the English language" as he said was what was first said. and nothing about proper names etc
Therefore I submit Lloyd as a common spelling version of the guys name. Sometimes a single 'L' sometimes double

cheers
Dave

 

[drizzle]

Malala.. Putin... Really?

 

[Enigman]

"Sequipedalian" is the only word in the English language that means what it means.

Along the same lines-
hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- the fear of long words.

 

[Borg]

Llano is technically a Spanish word but, most of the Wikipedia articles refer to US rivers, towns and counties. Similarly, would the name of a language (Llanito) count?

 

[Enigman]

Malala.. Putin... Really?

"www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQy5FEugUFQ" vs. Putin...that's a tough one...
hopefully Putin gets [strike]shoe smacked[/strike]*...
_____________________________________________________________
Ed- *okay, killed by a zombie...
-just understood the relevance of the shoe comment...-^{I am an idiot.}

 

[dkotschessaa]

Ladies and gentlemen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJBZDrUEYYo

Found out yesterday. :)

 

[lisab]

Ladies and gentlemen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJBZDrUEYYo

Found out yesterday. :)

Wait...really? WOW congrats! yay :thumbs:!

 

[dkotschessaa]

wait...really? Wow congrats! O:) yay :thumbs:!

yep!

 

[Pythagorean]

Ok, there's several things you need to know: breastfeeding makes your babies smart. There's no evidence that that breastfeeding causes intelligence. Crying it out causes brain damage. There's no evidence that cry it out causes brain damage. Reward/punishment is not an appropriate form of discipline for humans. Reward/punishment is an appropriate form of discipline for humans.

Also:

This Be The Verse, By Philip Larkin:

They **** you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.


Or maybe not:

Judith Rich Harris:
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth
To hear your child make such a fuss.
It isn’t fair—it’s not the truth—
He’s ****ed up, yes, but not by us.

enjoy! (an congrats)

 

[Evo]

yep!

Boy am I sloooow.

Congratulations!

 

[dkotschessaa]

Ok, there's several things you need to know: breastfeeding makes your babies smart. There's no evidence that that breastfeeding causes intelligence. Crying it out causes brain damage. There's no evidence that cry it out causes brain damage. Reward/punishment is not an appropriate form of discipline for humans. Reward/punishment is an appropriate form of discipline for humans.

My wife already knows I am a logic nerd and a skeptic. But now she's really going to feel the wrath of it, I'm afraid. Every time I hear some bit of advice (some bit of folk wisdom, let's say) I ask if it came from a reputable source. "What does the research say?" "That doesn't make sense." "Just because they did X doesn't mean it worked (regression to the mean)." "Let me look that up first."

Also:

This Be The Verse, By Philip Larkin:

They **** you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.


Or maybe not:

Judith Rich Harris:
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth
To hear your child make such a fuss.
It isn’t fair—it’s not the truth—
He’s ****ed up, yes, but not by us.

enjoy! (an congrats)

Thank you!

I've got all kinds of great plans for messing up my kid. I've already learned how babies habituate in order to develop number sense. They stare at stuff until they are familiar with it. So they stare at 1 light, then 2 lights, then 3, but between 3 and 4 they can't tell the difference until a certain age. I'm going to use this information. Somehow.

Also, alphabet blocks. 4 sets of them. Set theory. I think i can do that at 10 months.

I have a background in music and almost have a math degree. My wife has a bachelor's in theatre and a masters in journalism. Our baby will be prepped for the road to geekdom.

Of course, that means the most likely outcome is that our kid will want to be a complete jock.

oh yes, we've got this kid thing alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll figured out

-Dave K

 

[Enigman]

Okay...getting mistaken for a mentor can get realllly awkward...

 

[dkotschessaa]

Okay...getting mistaken for a mentor can get realllly awkward...

I saw it! Actually it was delightfully melodramatic. The poster reacted to your post as if he suddenly realized he was in the presence of royalty. I laughed.

 

[Evo]

Okay...getting mistaken for a mentor can get realllly awkward...

 

[Pythagorean]

My wife already knows I am a logic nerd and a skeptic. But now she's really going to feel the wrath of it, I'm afraid. Every time I hear some bit of advice (some bit of folk wisdom, let's say) I ask if it came from a reputable source. "What does the research say?" "That doesn't make sense." "Just because they did X doesn't mean it worked (regression to the mean)." "Let me look that up first."




Thank you!

I've got all kinds of great plans for messing up my kid. I've already learned how babies habituate in order to develop number sense. They stare at stuff until they are familiar with it. So they stare at 1 light, then 2 lights, then 3, but between 3 and 4 they can't tell the difference until a certain age. I'm going to use this information. Somehow.

Also, alphabet blocks. 4 sets of them. Set theory. I think i can do that at 10 months.

I have a background in music and almost have a math degree. My wife has a bachelor's in theatre and a masters in journalism. Our baby will be prepped for the road to geekdom.

Of course, that means the most likely outcome is that our kid will want to be a complete jock.

oh yes, we've got this kid thing alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll figured out

-Dave K

May I suggest the Meltzoff experiment? It worked wonderfully with both of my daughters. We are also geekdocrats: one of our daughters is named Darwin.

 

[dkotschessaa]

May I suggest the Meltzoff experiment? It worked wonderfully with both of my daughters. We are also geekdocrats: one of our daughters is named Darwin.

Fantastic!

 

[turbo]

Congratulations, Dave! Alphabet blocks are a great idea, IMO. I'm sure your little one will be well challenged.

 

[Astronuc]

Just Wow!

Jon Steward interviews Malala Yousafzai

http://www.upworthy.com/watch-this-incredible-young-woman-render-jon-stewart-speechless?c=ufb1

http://www.thedailyshow.com/extended-interviews/429631/playlist_tds_extended_malala_yousafzai/429609

 

[dlgoff]

Just Wow!

Jon Steward interviews Malala Yousafzai

http://www.upworthy.com/watch-this-incredible-young-woman-render-jon-stewart-speechless?c=ufb1

http://www.thedailyshow.com/extended-interviews/429631/playlist_tds_extended_malala_yousafzai/429609

An excellent choice for the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[AlephZero]

one of our daughters is named Darwin.

Shouldn't that be Darwina?

(And you could then name another daughter Darloosa...)

 

[Astronuc]

If the millions of women who haul water long distances had a faucet by their door, whole societies could be transformed.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water-slaves/johnson-photography

The Burden of Thirst
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water-slaves/rosenberg-text

In wealthy parts of the world, people turn on a faucet and out pours abundant, clean water. Yet nearly 900 million people in the world have no access to clean water, and 2.5 billion people have no safe way to dispose of human waste—many defecate in open fields or near the same rivers they drink from. Dirty water and lack of a toilet and proper hygiene kill 3.3 million people around the world annually, most of them children under age five. Here in southern Ethiopia, and in northern Kenya, a lack of rain over the past few years has made even dirty water elusive.

 

[OmCheeto]

If the millions of women who haul water long distances had a faucet by their door, whole societies could be transformed.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water-slaves/johnson-photography

The Burden of Thirst
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water-slaves/rosenberg-text

This reminds me of the time I got an infraction, and Evo said I was right, and I told her she was wrong.

It was a few years ago, so please:

Think! Before you argue about the ease of growing tomatoes...

 

[lisab]

Is it really the tenth day of the tenth month of this year?

Where has this year gone?

 

[Pythagorean]

Shouldn't that be Darwina?

(And you could then name another daughter Darloosa...)

uhhhh... down with the patriarch!

 

[inotyce]

Happy Friday everyone!

 

[drizzle]

Not yet, it'll be a long Friday for me [STRIKE]tomorrow[/STRIKE] today. T_T

 

[zoobyshoe]

Ruminate on this:

The words "vaccination" and "vaccine" come from the Latin word "vacca" which means cow.

 

[collinsmark]

Ruminate on this:

The words "vaccination" and "vaccine" come from the Latin word "vacca" which means cow.

Although I haven't researched the etymology of this word, and I'm totally guessing at this point, it might have to do with smallpox. The vaccination for smallpox* was to intentionally expose the human subject to cowpox: a virus not dangerous to humans, but one that would make the subject immune to smallpox. Cowpox was a similar virus that was quite dangerous to cows.

*(the full story behind this is pretty freaking freaky, historically speaking, but worth the research in my opinion, none-the-less.)

 

[Enigman]

I hate it when I say something smart and find out that someone already had posted the same minutes before me...
Anyway, the story

In May 1796, Edward Jenner found a young dairymaid, Sarah Nelms, who had fresh cowpox lesions on her hands and arms (Figure ​(Figure33). On May 14, 1796, using matter from Nelms' lesions, he inoculated an 8-year-old boy, James Phipps. Subsequently, the boy developed mild fever and discomfort in the axillae. Nine days after the procedure he felt cold and had lost his appetite, but on the next day he was much better. In July 1796, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with matter from a fresh smallpox lesion. No disease developed, and Jenner concluded that protection was complete ...
... The Latin word for cow is vacca, and cowpox is vaccinia; Jenner decided to call this new procedure vaccination...

*ED-Someone got there before Jenner, Benjamin Jesty

esty and two of his female servants, Ann Notley and Mary Reade, had been infected with cowpox. When an epidemic of smallpox came to Yetminster in 1774, Jesty decided to try to give his wife Elizabeth and two eldest sons immunity by infecting them with cowpox. He took his family to a cow at a farm in nearby Chetnole that had the disease, and using a darning needle, transferred pustular material from the cow by scratching their arms. The boys had mild local reactions and quickly recovered but his wife's arm became very inflamed and for a time her condition gave cause for concern, although she too recovered fully in time.Blue plaque commemorating Jesty's pioneering work at Upbury Farm at Yetminster.
Jesty's experiment was met with hostility by his neighbours. He was labelled inhuman, and was "hooted at, reviled and pelted whenever he attended markets in the neighbourhood’". The introduction of an animal disease into a human body was thought disgusting and some even "feared their metamorphosis into horned beasts". But the treatment's efficacy was several times demonstrated in the years which followed, when Jesty's two elder sons, exposed to smallpox, failed to catch the disease

-Just to prove to myself that I'm not completely redundant...

 

[Astronuc]

So you want to be an astronaut?

“I think returning from space is a huge struggle for astronauts,” says Bondar. There have been cases where astronauts have fainted during press conferences because they had not recovered sufficiently. “Down here on the ground,” explains Bondar, “we need about five liters [of water] running around in our intravascular volume. In space flight, we pee out about two of those liters in the first 24 hours because the fluids float up to the heart.” The heart dilates, which sends a signal to the kidneys to urinate out the extra fluids. “This fluid volume is replaced with water and salt tablets during re-entry to keep the blood volume up,” she says.

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/09/real-life-astronaut-weighs-in-on-gravity/

 

[lendav_rott]

I love classical music and The King's Singers!

 

[Pythagorean]

Ruminate on this:

The words "vaccination" and "vaccine" come from the Latin word "vacca" which means cow.

Vacation is from "vacare", "be empty, free, or at leisure". "Empty" is particularly reminiscent of "vacuum".

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=vacation&searchmode=none

 

[Enigman]

Vacation is from "vacare", "be empty, free, or at leisure". "Empty" is particularly reminiscent of "vacuum".

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=vacation&searchmode=none

That's Nice and a bit wierd and slightly hysterical...

Oh! What a silly villain am I...

Never get me started on etymology...

 

[dkotschessaa]

So you want to be an astronaut?

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/09/real-life-astronaut-weighs-in-on-gravity/

Not me. I think the vast majority of outer space is not only extremely hostile, but mind bogglingly dull.

-Dave K

 

[ChiralWaltz]

sign me up


Dissociative recombination

 

[zoobyshoe]

*(the full story behind this is pretty freaking freaky, historically speaking, but worth the research in my opinion, none-the-less.)

Yes, I'm reading a book called, "The Demon in the Freezer" which is all about the variola virus.

*ED-Someone got there before Jenner, Benjamin Jesty

That's interesting, I had not heard about Benjamin Jesty.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Prenatal yoga with my wife/tadpole tonight.

 

[Borek]

Prenatal yoga sounds... ambiguous

 

[dkotschessaa]

It was great. My wife and her tadpole seemed to enjoy it, and my hips are nice and open as well. Those postures are good for anyone! I'm in a perpetual state of fascination about this child-construction process.

 

[Pythagorean]

 

[lisab]

It was great. My wife and her tadpole seemed to enjoy it, and my hips are nice and open as well. Those postures are good for anyone! I'm in a perpetual state of fascination about this child-construction process.

I know! I mean, growing a person, wow. Isn't it a bizarre and wonderful thing?

 

[Ibix]

Wait until you see it reasoning logically when a couple of years earlier it didn't even know how to feed itself. How do we all do it?

 

[OmCheeto]

... my hips are nice and open as well. ...

Maybe it's my age, but prenatal yoga sounds like hip replacement surgery.

 

[Enigman]

That wasn't the sticky I was expecting...

 

[pyzicslolito]

I can't figure out what is going on

 

[dkotschessaa]

I know! I mean, growing a person, wow. Isn't it a bizarre and wonderful thing?

Yes. My wife's been tired all day and spent a lot of time on the couch. She says "I haven't done anything all day!" I said, " Yeah, except, you know... MAKE A HUMAN!"

I mean sheesh.

I sure as hell can't make humans.

(apparently ours is made out of french bread).

-Dave K

 

[OmCheeto]

My mailman, didn't bat an eye, as I filled two coffee container lids, and an ashtray, with cat food, on the roof of one of my derelict automobiles.

I must live in a strange place.

 

[Borek]

i-vsILeJ8_8[/youtube] Be honest - ...to watch this movie after seeing the trailer?