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A hapax legomenon, one of my favorite literary terms.
A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language.
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It's actually "hlyab" / "hleb", without the extra "k". We are not Arabs. On a related note, an old friend of mine was really into Norwegian back in the day. He used to say Norwegian is very similar to English. Is that true?
Lots of words are similar. Both are decendants of old norse, but English has accuired quite a bit of latin since the Norman conquest
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Lots of words are similar. Both are decendants of old norse, but English has accuired quite a bit of latin since the Norman conquest
English does not descend form Old Norse (a North Germanic language). It was merely influenced by it due to Viking invasions of the British isles. English is a West Germanic language more closely related to Frisian.
Bread in Russian means хлеб (khleb), and in Bulgarian хляб (khlyab). IMHO not so different from Old English hlaf. In Norwegian we use the word loff for white and soft bread, and as far as I know Brits call it a loaf of bread. But everyday bread is just brød in Norwegian, which is of course very similar to the English word bread. Interestingly I know Life of Boris likes his бутерброд (buterbrod), which is basically a…
It's actually "hlyab" / "hleb", without the extra "k". We are not Arabs. On a related note, an old friend of mine was really into Norwegian back in the day. He used to say Norwegian is very similar to English. Is that true?
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A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language.
* A word that occurs only once in a given corpus. For example, if you list all the words in a book, it can have many hapax. That usually says something about the diversity of words an author uses. A hapax that is unique to all records of a language is quite rare.
Depends on how well attested the language is. In Koine Greek I would imagine they’re relatively rare, but in Etruscan or Epic Greek much more common.
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Whenever I start diving into theology on Wikipedia, I'm always struck by the similarity of Bible study to the effort put into Wikis about Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, etc. Basically, early Christians were fanboys obsessed with the minutia and canonical stories of their favorite fantasy series published in two volumes. (Amusingly, it seems that L. Ron Hubbard noticed the same thing years ago and thought, "Hey, I can…
https://youtu.be/IOPd80FN2ew you might really enjoy the lectures of Bart Ehrman.
On a side note, one of the things I love about iOS/macOS is the built-in dictionary with etymology, which I often use to indulge my curiosity.
Linux users can try "dict", which is great, although weirdly it queries a network server for this information.
The C/S element comes in handy on systems where the client is available, but dictionaries aren't. So from MacOS I can query my local Linux box.
(Debian has numerous dictionaries, including the US Census Gazeteer files, and others --- any information that can be represented in the dict format and be keyword-queried, basically. Quite handy.)
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Linux users can try "dict", which is great, although weirdly it queries a network server for this information.
Well, the client and server are distinct. For a desktop system you can simply install both dict (client) and dictd (server), along with the various dictionaries. The C/S element comes in handy on systems where the client is available, but dictionaries aren't. So from MacOS I can query my local Linux box. (Debian has numerous dictionaries, including the US Census Gazeteer files, and others --- any information that can…
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Well, the client and server are distinct. For a desktop system you can simply install both dict (client) and dictd (server), along with the various dictionaries. The C/S element comes in handy on systems where the client is available, but dictionaries aren't. So from MacOS I can query my local Linux box. (Debian has numerous dictionaries, including the US Census Gazeteer files, and others --- any information that can…
Huh, interesting. I imagine a lot of knowledge bases–personal, corporate, etc.–might be represented in that format.
A principle limitation is that there's no security component, so anyone with segmented knowledge will not be having a good time. But pretty much anything else.
Using dict you can specify the target dictionary using the '-d ' option. This can of course also be aliased or written into shell functions.