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> Bruh Those who live in glass houses should not attempt to hang paintings, methinks.
They could use those little sticky velcro 'Commander' strips and it would work out ok
Point well taken.
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Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bruh said "no cap" on HN
> Bruh Those who live in glass houses should not attempt to hang paintings, methinks.
Could it be at all possible that I did that on purpose? Perchance I chose to make the exact "mistake" the GP made, and call him out for it at the same time because the irony of it would be funny?
You must think other people are deeply, abysmally, troglodytically stupid if you thought one could make that comment without self-awareness.
Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#13I think it would be interesting to incorporate loan words or phrases. Often these words become loan words because there's no good English equivalents so loan words/phrases sort of expand our ability to grapple these concepts.
how very entrepreneurial of you
Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#14what would make a "word of the day" stream compelling to me would be a word that reflected recent news. William Safire did this to some extent in his weekly column in the NY Times and it was usually pretty interesting.
a way to increase the discovery of relevance could be looking up the etymologies of words that pop up, I'm always fascinated by how complex and interesting etymologies are
Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Bruh Those who live in glass houses should not attempt to hang paintings, methinks.
Could it be at all possible that I did that on purpose? Perchance I chose to make the exact "mistake" the GP made, and call him out for it at the same time because the irony of it would be funny? You must think other people are deeply, abysmally, troglodytically stupid if you thought one could make that comment without self-awareness.
Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. If you did, then maybe you did not do a very good job of communicating that? I mean, until telepathy over TCP finally arrives, all we have to go on is basically ASCII.
> You must think other people are deeply, abysmally, troglodytically stupid if you thought one could make that comment without self-awareness.
I suspect you inhabit a different part of the Internet than me. I envy you.
Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#16Nice, anoter James Somers blog post/project, I like. Love your articles, dude. And have a bunch on my reading list to catch up on.
Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#17When it comes to getting a deeper understanding of words you already know, two of my favorite resources are Etymonline [1] and the 1913 edition of Webster’s dictionary [2]. And if you’re curious why 1913 specifically, this post [3] gives a great overview. [1] https://www.etymonline.com/ [2] https://www.websters1913.com/ [3] https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
The 3rd post was written by the OP!
Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#18When it comes to getting a deeper understanding of words you already know, two of my favorite resources are Etymonline [1] and the 1913 edition of Webster’s dictionary [2]. And if you’re curious why 1913 specifically, this post [3] gives a great overview. [1] https://www.etymonline.com/ [2] https://www.websters1913.com/ [3] https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
The 3rd post was written by the OP!
Hahah how did I miss that! It’s even linked in the description. Glad you pointed it out. Let me also link the word enjoyers out there to another favorite of mine, then: https://carefulwords.com/
Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#19When it comes to getting a deeper understanding of words you already know, two of my favorite resources are Etymonline [1] and the 1913 edition of Webster’s dictionary [2]. And if you’re curious why 1913 specifically, this post [3] gives a great overview. [1] https://www.etymonline.com/ [2] https://www.websters1913.com/ [3] https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
The 3rd post was written by the OP!
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Re: Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
#20I've had Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day [1] feed on my RSS reader for a while and I think these are quite usable.
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/calendar