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decuran

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    Comment #27743327

    Can you extract from wiktionary with this?

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    Comment #27477612

    I love this! I had no idea about the Etymological Wordnet and it probably would have saved me a ton of time developing my app for finding "interesting" cognates: https://etymologye…

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    Comment #27108316

    Yes, this is the site that inspired me! I was frustrated that it was so hard to navigate to cognates (word cousins) or from roots to descendants. So mine is focused on navigating b…

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    Comment #27104758

    If people are interested in diving deeper into etymologies, I made an app that allows you to visually explore all the roots, descendants, or relatives of a word: https://etymologye…

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    Comment #26680898

    Looks cool! May use this for my toddler

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    Comment #26655992

    Thanks so much! Would love any other feedback you have. I'm making updates often

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    Yes, this is the site that inspired me! I was frustrated that it was so hard to navigate to cognates (word cousins) or from roots to descendants. So mine is focused on navigating b…

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    Comment #26654603

    I'm making a tool for exploring word etymologies. I'm fascinated by the hidden connections in our language—like "galaxy" being connected to "galactose" because of the Milky Way. I …

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    Comment #26361617

    I've been working on a tool that lets you see connections between words in your own language and one you're learning. It is based on following etymology trees up and back down. It …

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    I made this because I'm really interested in how similar words relate to one another. I used NLP to convert written etymology paragraphs from wiktionary into a database of words an…

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    Comment #26229573

    deus ex ATM

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    Comment #26094099

    Is there a repo to reproduce the results? I didn't see anything in the article

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    Comment #25870607

    That's interesting about Xanthippe and the fancy-fancy horse names. I had recently learned about the etymology of Hippopotamus (water horse) so I was excited to see another use. As…

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    Comment #25784938

    An app called EtymologyExplorer that allows exploration of word origins. It shows word family trees in a visual layout. I made this because I'm really interested in how words relat…

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    Comment #25581923

    Hello! Creator here. This app shows word evolutions in a visual format similar to a family tree. I made this because I'm really interested in how words relate to one another. For e…

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    That's a really good question and I worry about that myself. I think it might be incorrect to think that there is a "true self" inside you. More realistically I think there are man…

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    More than likely something is going on from the changes to the active neural circuitry. Usually the "Default Mode Network" is active. When this is quieted down, which is similar to…