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they could have seen tusks themselves, and relied on verbal descriptions for the rest of the animal.

> 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 ab…

There's always inference.

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 gratefulne…

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 knowledg…

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. i…

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_…

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/

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."

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 Spin…

> not brew, that one is also spyware how is brew spyware?

The Latin for eight is octo.

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/ozy…

Very cool! Why do you need the Arduino for the heart-tempo? Can't you connect the pulse-sensor directly to the computer?

What is and isn't evidence is for people to decide by themselves based on facts?

Markdown has no reasonable support for RTL.

just a nitpick: the proper plural is "caveant emptores".

Dennō Coil[1] is a wonderful and innocent take on this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil

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

It also just means "a young wife", or "a marriageable maiden" in ancient Greek.

It's not "average Germanic", but you should look at Anglish.

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 chea…

The best advice I ever heard: Every text you read is both an advice how to write and an advice how not to.

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 f…

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…