@JoonasIlmavirta Where I used to live in the upper peninsula of Michigan, there were quite a few people of Finnish descent.
@JoonasIlmavirta Compared to some SE boards we get a much better ratio of good posts vs those of no value or that were already asked (assuming that you and other moderators are not moving them so fast that no one sees them, of course).
@ktm5124 Did all three heads do well and they only gave him (they?) one bone? Perhaps it would have been better to give three bones.
@Adam We've had some of them. If it has no visible traces of thought, we'll blow it up pretty fast.
Speaking of that, I'm expecting to have a moderator election this year. SE has been slow, but it'd make sense to get a third one within a year of losing one of the original triumvirate.
I was reflecting the other day on how Adam has both senses of "man" and "ground" and the word "human" has both senses of human being and ground (from humus, meaning "ground")
So it would seem that both the Romans and the Hebrews felt that man came from the clay of the ground...?
@Cerberus Aren't the gods keeping a distance to each other and humans as well?
@ktm5124 I know the feeling! I enjoy my numbers going up too, although they mean little as such.
Perhaps incoming reputation is a signal that others appreciate my contributions, and that surely cheers me up.
In the activity tab of the profile page there is a somewhat mysterious estimate for number of people reached. Mine is pretty close to a round number which is surprisingly large.
@ktm5124 Indeed! I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy the Hebrew aspect of it too. I'd be curious to know whether the Romans saw any connection between homo and humus.
@ktm5124 So the Romans did have humanus and connected it to homo, but I'm not sure if they saw any link to humus. Two words can look alike without reason too.
@JoonasIlmavirta @Cerberus If I start reading Plato's Apology in Greek and St. Augustine's Confessions in Latin I will have plenty of questions for Latin.SE.
