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A colleague once pronounced correlation "co-relation" and it made more sense so now I say it that way sometimes. Anyone else do that?
Do people not try to work out the ethymology of words? Everything makes more sense when you know where words came from and how they came to be. :)
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Do people not try to work out the ethymology of words? Everything makes more sense when you know where words came from and how they came to be. :)
I do somehow because of my inherent interest in understanding the world. However, this got me intro communication issues with my former boss. Apparently, this person was not interested in what words (or combinations of words) actually mean but rather simply just how they're used frequently. Every new combination of words was utterly confusing to this person. As a conclusion, I try to figure out how people process lan…
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I do somehow because of my inherent interest in understanding the world. However, this got me intro communication issues with my former boss. Apparently, this person was not interested in what words (or combinations of words) actually mean but rather simply just how they're used frequently. Every new combination of words was utterly confusing to this person. As a conclusion, I try to figure out how people process lan…
Most people are still on step 1 (learning what the individual words mean). They don't get to the stage of learning how the different words fit together.
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Do people not try to work out the ethymology of words? Everything makes more sense when you know where words came from and how they came to be. :)
I do somehow because of my inherent interest in understanding the world. However, this got me intro communication issues with my former boss. Apparently, this person was not interested in what words (or combinations of words) actually mean but rather simply just how they're used frequently. Every new combination of words was utterly confusing to this person. As a conclusion, I try to figure out how people process lan…
Which would be a very sensible way of working for people who don't have a lot of short term memory to play with, since remembering a complex sentence to parse is impossible. But it makes it challenging to process words as though they have inherent meaning, because they are really acting as deltas to some state. The precise meaning of the word cannot be preserved because it is conflated with the sentence as a whole.
You see that abused a lot in politics, where people say one thing in a way that means what they say and the impression they give are different. So if trends go one way they supported the trend, and if the trends go the other way then they never actually said anything in support.
I'll probably get away with pointing at Trump as an interesting example of that in reverse where his sentences usually don't make sense if you try to interpret them as sentences, but are crystal clear as a series of updates to some blob of state.
Cauliflower ear can totally change the shape and size of your ear.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do people not try to work out the ethymology of words? Everything makes more sense when you know where words came from and how they came to be. :)
I do somehow because of my inherent interest in understanding the world. However, this got me intro communication issues with my former boss. Apparently, this person was not interested in what words (or combinations of words) actually mean but rather simply just how they're used frequently. Every new combination of words was utterly confusing to this person. As a conclusion, I try to figure out how people process lan…
That's another one that's useful to think about: it's the same "-herent" as "adherent" and "inherent". One means "stick together", one means "stick to" and the other means "sticks into" (I.e. is part of).
"Hesitate" comes from the same root and means "stick in place".
A colleague once pronounced correlation "co-relation" and it made more sense so now I say it that way sometimes. Anyone else do that?
Do people not try to work out the ethymology of words? Everything makes more sense when you know where words came from and how they came to be. :)
Surprising article. The conclusion that ear protrusion (yes, that's a thing) has no genetic basis is of course not impossible, but seems unlikely. It would require another data set to establish it.
A colleague once pronounced correlation "co-relation" and it made more sense so now I say it that way sometimes. Anyone else do that?