One more: “Philip Durkin is the author of Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English. He makes the observation that, of the one thousand most common English words, just under half come from Latin or French. When we consider the entire body of English words, Dictionary.com estimates that 60% have Greek or Latin origins; the percentage grows to 90% when we look at technical and scientific language.
Since so many words in English have come from Latin or Greek (often through French), it is quite productive to study the orderly derivation of English words from classical Latin and Greek etymons.”
~ Sue Scibetta Hegland
Chapter Seven: It Runs In The Family 
“One of my favorite comic strips is Calvin and Hobbes, and I always assumed that its creator dreamed up the word transmogrify. It was fascinating to learn that it has been part of English since the 1600s. I first encountered stupefy while reading the Harry Potter books, but that is also a well-established word, part of the language since the early fifteenth century. And speechify may sound fairly modern but was actually coined in 1723, almost three hundred years ago.”
~ Sue Scibetta Hegland #BeneathTheSurfaceOfWords
I was rereading a little of this today because my students struggle with spelling & I was brainstorming. 
Linguistics hold a special place in my heart. I’m not being sarcastic. Finding truth with a linguistic is an interesting type of adventure. Thanks for the reminder.
I have no idea what you experience when you code because I don’t know how to code— but I understand nightmares & the gems one can bring to the waking world— for creative purposes. Lucid. Good luck!
They do look so delicious— all the food pics you share. I bet she doesn’t even need to follow a recipe— it’s an art, an instinct— somewhat of a creative science. I admire chefs. Tell her thank you for the eye candy.
Good idea. Mystery & then some transparency to clarify the author’s point of view— even though it can be fluid & not static in certain situations. And this nostr bug happened to me recently— I think.
I registered for this— but cannot attend because I’m meeting friends for dinner when it goes live. I’m hoping I can access the video later. Definitely want to read the book. The event is tonight— sharing here incase anyone is interested. #books https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-writers-in-paris-the-fbi-and-a-lost-1960s-classic-registration-746460151407
“Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists
With a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre about how this explosive novel laid bare America's racial fault lines” #books
I registered for this— but cannot attend because I’m meeting friends for dinner when it goes live. I’m hoping I can access the video later. Definitely want to read the book. The event is tonight— sharing here incase anyone is interested. #books https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-writers-in-paris-the-fbi-and-a-lost-1960s-classic-registration-746460151407
A little earlier…. #sunrise ☀️
💜🙏 “non-solutions” often are bridges. Be patient — you will arrive. And then start again. Good luck.
“And although he missed his daughter’s birth because he had been distracted on a birdwatching trip, he whimsically named her Fei-Fei. In Mandarin, fei means to fly. When rendered into a Chinese character, her name resembles a bird. “The highest compliment I can pay my father doubles as the most damning critique: that he’s exactly what would result if a child could design their ideal parent in the total absence of adult supervision,” Li writes.” #books — putting this on my to listen/read list The Worlds I See — keeping the human at the heart of AI
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Happy Birthday— fate in numbers!
Beautiful coincidence! Birthday gravity.
This sounds amazing!! News like this is one reason I use Nostr! My brother-in-law is an optometrist— will spread the info because this stuff interests him. Good luck!
I read & loved Kate Brigg’s *This Little Art* — and her new book looks lovely. May recommend it to my friends with young children— sharing here as well for the parents with young ones. #books #parenting
“There are three things that all living persons have in common: a body, the certainty of eventual death, and the fact that someone once cared for you, effortfully and around the clock. In the beginning of your life, someone cared—used here to describe an action, not a feeling—enough to sustain that aliveness. We are each a monument, a memorial, to a tremendous amount of labor, done solely on our behalf, that we no longer recall. To paraphrase the child psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott: show me a baby, and I will show you someone nearby.” A Novel That Captures the Mind-Bending Early Weeks of Parenthood https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-novel-that-captures-the-mind-bending-early-weeks-of-parenthood
Thanks for sharing this article. 🙏
From the article:
“This October just marked the five-year anniversary of the worst antisemitic attack ever committed in the United States: the eleven worshipers at Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha in Pittsburgh, who were murdered by a gunman who espoused conspiracy theories that blamed Jews for the arrival of Central American migrants, and in so doing, dehumanized both groups.”
Just last week on the 27th (the anniversary) — I remembered how our Jewish, Muslim & others in our Pittsburgh area community joined together to mourn & heal after this tragedy —
bought this book & reread pieces every year. 
Yes. And room for imagination & art— that’s why I like your graphic!