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3:00 PM
The Mountain That Codes actually shakes the floor when he walks. This is disconcerting.
 
maybe he could wear moon boots
 
According to the Nicole Kidman documentary, as long as it's not followed around by a murder of crows, all is fine.
(Spoiler alert.)
 
@MattE.Эллен They would have to be actual moons.
 
that would be logistically difficult
 
Then we'll put that in the next release.
 
Seems a nice enough fellow, though. It's just hard to not notice the, ahem, elephant in the room.
@MattE.Эллен They still have yobs in England? I thought that went out with the '80s.
 
@Robusto yobs are a staple of society
 
Nice to know there'll always be a reliable supply.
 
Along with yop
A yob at yop would be best :D
Ba dum tss
:crickets:
 
international youth orchestra pancakes
 
3:23 PM
Yop: Youth Opportunities Programme; (as modifier): a YOP scheme. 2. (informal) Also called yopper. a young person employed through this government programme.
 
Youth Opportunities: Licking Ondatras. YOLO for short.
 
How's the commie count out there?
 
Getting too crowdy. Will have to start muting select individuals in about thirty minutes at most.
 
Nuke'em
With your nuclear teeth.
 
@RegDwigнt You purge these commies every day, and every day there are more. Doesn't it get discouraging?
 
3:29 PM
@skillpatrol That is done exclusively from orbit, for which I need a gunner, and I have come to rely on Rob's services for that.
 
There's still all of China
 
@Robusto how so? If your hobby is jerking off, does it get discouraging to keep jerking off and jerking off and jerking off?
Same for driving around in a Mustang. Or making millions. Or building with LEGO. Or muting communists.
 
@RegDwigнt Some things never get old.
Still, there appears to be a correlation between your muting a commie and "rubbing one out" . . .
 
@Robusto "... and others do." Copyright Wachowski Brothers, special thanks to Jada Pinkett-Smith.
 
Immediate disqualification for mention of the Wachowski Bros.
 
3:32 PM
@Robusto but do you think not that's a coincidence?
@Robusto hahaha you cannot disqualify me. I was disqualified before you were born. I invented disqualification. Before God invented everything else.
Needless to say, I immediately disqualified him.
Which is the sole true reason nobody's ever heard from him since.
 
How are you going to mute China?
 
With dedication and devotion. And a lot of turning on of lights.
 
BTW, look at the page source for this site and count the instances of "id=" and then start searching all.css for a look at how nobody uses the id for styling anymore. — Robusto 7 secs ago
Stupid CSS trolls.
 
"Wachowski Siblings" these days
or just "The Wachowskis"
 
3:38 PM
Wachowski Am Rhein
 
Starship.
Sternenschiff.
Is there a photoshop of the next Star Wars movie's titles saying "Wachowski Starship" instead?
 
Laughing Wachowski Cheese
 
3:50 PM
They were arguing about the most hated physicist in history in the physics chat room and the winner is ...
in The h Bar, 46 mins ago, by Slereah
Kurt Diebner apparently
Second place goes to Heisenberg
 
Commie demagogues, here I come!
 
Note that just as soon as everybody gets through downvoting this answer, some advertising copywriter somewhere is going to write a headline: "How To Build The Best Coffee Ever" . . . — Robusto 9 secs ago
 
And demagoguettes, of course.
Never forget demagoguettes.
 
@skillpatrol Hey, what did Heisenberg ever do to you?
 
Sehr geehrte Demagogen und Demagoginnen.
 
3:55 PM
He was too uncertain @Robusto
 
You can't be sure about that.
 
ya, but neither can he
 
It was a matter of principle. He didn't want to believe it.
Am I alone in thinking it's a fairly routine matter to use build in the figurative sense here? — Robusto 2 mins ago
 
So he made it a law?
 
No. It was a principle, never a law.
 
3:58 PM
What's the difference?
 
principle != law QED
 
Put away the QED Euclid
 
Here's looking at EU, Clid.
 
@Robusto so rare, I haven't found it yet
 
EU & Clid
What is that guy's name?
 
4:07 PM
@Robusto in terms of coffee, only pineapples and one random tumblr use build a coffee
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@skillpatrol Xzibit
 
Thanks @MattE.Эллен
 
no probs :)
The tumblr one isn't being figurative, it's being nonsensical, on purpose.
I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying Google hasn't found it, if it has happened.
"Build A Coffee" is a registered trade mark in Mexico
 
4:41 PM
@MattE.Эллен That only means there's a better opportunity to be original.
Ahh, I just built myself a fine new coffee. drinks
 
I'm really hungry. I might brew myself a sandwich
 
Why not build one instead?
Or you could craft either. Coffee or sandwich.
 
I could have a carefully forged sandwich
not really a sandwich at all, but a bank note!
 
@MattE.Эллен: You can't imagine how much easier my life has become now that I've dropped the requirement of handling scaled elements. It's like a new dawn.
I highly recommend it.
 
4:46 PM
From tears to cheers in one step.
 
I have dropped the difficult part, too, but the "search for all the cyan pixels" method is hella slow. very accurate, though.
 
What language?
 
Fuuuuuuu ...
 
yeah. it was working quicker in javascript
 
4:47 PM
Well, you should be used to "hella slow" by now with respect to Java.
 
:D
admittedly the javascript was running on my laptop, not a phone
 
Doesn't someone make a C++ plugin for that?
 
not as far as I can tell. I could investigate OpenCV some more
 
Yeah, but javascript is going to seriously shit the bed once you start processing 4x, 8x, nx images.
 
maybe
it's pretty quick with the uint8 arrays
 
4:50 PM
You using ES6?
 
not on purpose :D
 
Hehe
Process that one.
See how long it takes.
 
that's OK, thanks :D
 
One or two cyan pixels in that image.
 
5:04 PM
@MattE.Эллен It's like "Build a bear" but with coffee.
Obviously
 
Well, the time has come to mute capitalists. I seem to have to mute one of those for every commie @Reg mutes. Later, y'all.
 
5:18 PM
Later pal
 
 
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6:33 PM
What is a better choice for the person you are sending a letter to, addressee or recipient?
 
@FaheemMitha I'd use recipient. Addressee sounds stilted to me. Never trust a word with three repeated letters.
Committee is a case in point.
 
@terdon LOL
I tend to be wishy-washy in these sorts of cases. I write things like addressee/recipient.
It's sad, really. I have the cowardice of my lack of convictions.
@terdon So, how are you doing?
 
OK. Stuck house-sitting for my parents but I should be going off to an island again soon.
 
6:58 PM
@crl: New record today. I did my 16.3 mile (26.23 km) course in 56:58, which is 17.2 mph (27.68 kph). And I feel godlike.
@terdon Yeah, life in Greece sucks, huh? I wish I had an island to head off to.
 
@Robusto No baiting the inmates. I'm one of the lucky few. I have family and hence a house on the island in question. Most of my friends can't afford vacations this year.
But yeah, the islands are great if you can get to them.
 
I do want to do some Greek island hopping some day. That's on my bucket list.
I'll just tell my wife that Calypso forced me to stay on Girl Island for, like, ten cruel years.
 
Poor you :)
Seriously though, do drop me a line if you get round to it. I'd be happy to help out and could probably put you up for a few days. At least in Athens.
Here's the view from my porch on the island, eat your heart out:
 
@terdon What does one do on an island? Lots of swimming probably.
 
7:08 PM
Do Greek islands have lots of nubile beauties in bathing suits?
 
@FaheemMitha And eating. And drinking. And playing music and a lot of backgammon.
@FaheemMitha Damn straight.
 
@terdon Backgammon?
 
Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and a player wins by removing all of their pieces from the board before their opponent. Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world. Backgammon involves a combination of strategy and luck (from rolling dice). While the dice may determine the outcome of a single game, over a series of many games, the better player will accumulate the better record. Thus, records of matches between players are good indicators of relative skill...
 
I heard rumors of some Greek thing called ouzo. Or some such.
 
That too.
 
7:09 PM
@terdon Ever been to Corfu?
Of Gerald Durrell fame.
 
@FaheemMitha Of course. My family hails from there. Part of it anyway.
 
@terdon Is it nice?
 
I first read My family and other animals on Corfu.
 
@terdon Ah. Well, that's a good place to read it.
 
Yes, very nice. A bit too crowded these days though.
 
7:11 PM
@terdon Mos' def. Can't say it'll be anytime soon, but it's nice to have the offer.
 
Durrell claimed that he didn't make any of his story up, and that Corfu was basically like a really fun kind of lunatic asylum.
Do you agree/disagree? Of course, that was a long time ago. Before the Second World War.
 
@FaheemMitha Sounds pretty accurate. Goes for most of Greece.
I can confirm the trash cans full of used toilet paper. That's still around. The plumbing is old on most island houses and can't deal with anything as robust as paper.
 
@FaheemMitha Durrell reference. Nice!
 
@Robusto Yes, I'm a Durrell fan. Though I'm not sure about the zoo thing.
 
@FaheemMitha Why not? I loved that series and it sounds like a wonderful project. Remember that this is/was a conservation zoo and properly set up. Not something for the kids to gawk at but a proper breeding project.
 
7:20 PM
@terdon Hmm. I said "not sure". I don't really have an opinion.
Have you seen his Jersey place?
 
@FaheemMitha No, but what I've read about it sounds wonderful.
 
@terdon It's not that far away from you. Relatively speaking.
 
@terdon Here's an interesting book that takes place in Greece. I read it about ten years ago and thought it very funny: translatum.gr/etexts/kip/confusing-words.htm
 
7:23 PM
@FaheemMitha Yeah, relatively. Neither is Mars, relatively speaking :)
 
I was once in the Uk, and tried to get my hosts to take me to the Jersey place. They wouldn't come. They said it sounded boring, I think. I guess I could have gone alone. Kind of wish I had.
@terdon Point taken.
 
I met the author when we used to correspond in The Fray, which used to be Slate's social media forum.
 
@Robusto Sounds interesting. This, at least, is spot on:
> Athens was, in effect, the product of a system sustained by failures
 
@terdon Does Greece have any animal reserves / wildlife sanctuaries?
 
7:25 PM
@Faheem: We usually say animal preserves.
 
Yes, a few. There are a number of national parks some of which are also sanctuaries.
 
@Robusto ok
@terdon Ok.
 
Here's one of the more beautiful ones:
The Vikos–Aoös National Park (Greek: Εθνικός Δρυμός Βίκου–Αώου Ethnikós Drymós Víkou–Aóou) is a national park in the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece. The park, founded in 1973, is one of ten national parks in mainland Greece and is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the city of Ioannina in the northern part of the Pindus mountain range. It is named after the two major gorges of the area and encompasses 12,600 hectares (31,135 acres) of mountainous terrain, with numerous rivers, lakes, caves, deep canyons, dense coniferous and deciduous forest. The park is part of the Natura 2000...
 
@terdon Do you play backgammon for money?
 
@Robusto Kinda, yes. For drinks. The loser buys the winner a drink. Among my friends this has to be done in a specific bar where you need to tell the barman why you're paying.
 
7:31 PM
Looks handsome.
 
Sounds like a self-correcting system. It maintains equilibrium because the winners get handicapped by extra alcohol.
 
@Robusto Nah, we very rarely play at night. For precisely that reason :)
 
Does that mean people who don't drink don't get to play backgammon?
@terdon What series?
 
@FaheemMitha Dunno, don't know too many of those.
@FaheemMitha The one where he goes off to find a different species in each book.
 
@terdon Ah, his books. Ok.
@terdon Hmm, I think I'm starting to see a reason for the Greek meltdown...:-)
Just kidding.
I don't really drink myself. It never appealed to me. Though I like red wine. In theory. Also brandy. In theory.
I think I had some brandy when I was 12 or something. It was nice.
 
7:38 PM
I think you need a tad more experience than that to decide whether you like it.
 
I was surprised to learn (from a biography) that Durrell was an alcoholic and misogynist. He seemed like such a fun sort of person.
Douglas Botts, I think.
I can imagine doing what he did was very stressful. I hear conservation work really takes it out of you.
 
@FaheemMitha He wasn't a patch on Malcolm Lowry for that.
Clarence Malcolm Lowry (/ˈlaʊri/; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. == Biography == Lowry was born in New Brighton, Wirral, UK the fourth son of Evelyn Boden and Arthur Lowry, a cotton broker with roots in Cumberland. He was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge (the school made famous by the novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1912, the family moved to Caldy on another part of the Wirral peninsula. Their home...
 
I haven't read "My family and other animals" in years, but I remember it being hysterically funny.
 
Hmm, Le Guin. Never really read anything but the Earthsea Trilogy.
No, there was also a novel about someone who can change reality by wishing.
 
7:56 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 sweet
@FaheemMitha You're thinking of The Lathe of Heaven.
 
@Robusto Yes. Thank you.
Actually, it's no longer a trilogy. She wrote other books afterwards.
I always liked "A Wizard of Earthsea", Though I think I am in the minority.
 
I need to read more Le Guin.
 
You do.
 
I'm DeLilloing now.
 
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
 
crl
8:09 PM
The Nile is so large, that's weird
Its width is only 2.8km, but it appears way more on this photo
Hmm I think it shows all the "green" areas near the Nile itself, that's why it looks so large
 
crl
8:25 PM
Maybe I'm a bit color-blind though :)
 
8:52 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Have you read this one?
 
@Mitch ooh! No, I haven't. I think I've only read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
 
@Robusto I actually don’t know. It doesn’t really go together, but they say it. Anda is a second person imperative, and le is a third person dative (usually). But you can’t go him anything. The reflexive commands going with andarse should be ándate (tú) or ándese (Vd). Maybe they’re actually saying ándele, although that still leaves me at a loss for assigning the pronoun. Wiktionary doesn’t explain it either.
Maybe it’s move him along. Not sure.
> (reflexive, imperative) to take out, to remove yourself
¡Ándate de mi presencia!.
Remove yourself from my presence!.
 
This is a fun test:
It has non-words to watch out for!
 
Which again makes sense with te. The Mexican le there confuses me.
But I would say ¡Lárgate de mí myself.
 
9:19 PM
@terdon 90%.
Gaze upon this magnificent cheese wheel.
 
crl
9:35 PM
random fact: it takes approximately 500lbs to crush a human skull
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 phactual.com/…
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nice! I only made it to the high eighties.
 
9:53 PM
@tchrist just something I'll have to get used to, I guess.
@terdon 96%, but my left thumb twitched on schism, a word I obviously know. The two words I never heard of were zonation and gunge. I rejected all the fake words.
 
I too rejected all the fake words.
@Robusto hooray!
 
10:16 PM
It's a fun test isn't it? I've tried it 3 times and I think I've always missed at least one fake word thinking it was real.
 
10:35 PM
Hmm, the one incorrect word I say yes to was me hitting the wrong key by accident. Beginners luck perhaps
Then again, making up words that are plausible enough to deceive a native speaker is not easy. I wouldn't like to try it myself.
I wonder if there is a net test to estimate one's working vocabulary.
Surprisingly, yes.
Hang on, the top hit is the test I just took. I want something that actually tests whether you know what words mean, and I want an estimate, like 100k or something.
Why do you only test up to 45,000 words?

Because honestly, there really aren't any more generally-used words than that. The Oxford English Dictionary may list 300,000 words, but after 45,000, they're pretty much all either archaic, scientific/technical, or otherwise inapplicable to any kind of "general" vocabulary test. In fact, finding such general words beyond 35,000 was a real challenge.
Hmm, I thought English has more than 45k useful words.
I tried to take one of those tests, but discovered I'm too lazy to complete it.
 
11:02 PM
@FaheemMitha It has infinite. One, two, three...
:P
 
@terdon That's cheating.
Number's aren't words.
 
Sure they are.
Actually, words are kinda hard to pin down.
 
@terdon two thousand, three hundred and forty-four is clearly not a word. A phrase, maybe.
I'm not really sure how you would characterize it.
@terdon ever managed to complete a vocab test?
 
@FaheemMitha No, but two, thousand, three, hundred and forty-four clearly are.
Also, this:
5
Q: Are homonyms considered single words?

terdonThere are many homonyms in the English language, words that are spelled the same and pronounced the same but have different meanings. A few examples: A grizzly bear can bear great weight. I stake out the house while perched on a stake. I took a bow after shooting my bow. Take your pick of any p...

@FaheemMitha Many. I tend to score in the higher percentiles for native speakers. I'm not in the league of some of the regulars here though.
 
@terdon They are.
@terdon Many? I didn't manage to make it through one.
 
11:11 PM
I enjoy them. Plus, many are very short. The MW one for example.
 
I doubt having a large vocabulary beyond a certain point is really useful. And it can be distracting. Like a verbal tic. E.g. David Lodge is unfortunately very fond of curious words. I like him very much as a novelist, but it can be annoying. Perhaps it comes from being an English professor. E.g. micturate. Why on earth would you use that word?
 
I disagree. I like books that make me look up words. I really hate ones that misuse words because the author doesn't know his way around a dictionary yet still feels a need to show off his nonexistent erudition and sesquipedalianism.
 
I've invariably scored in the 99th percentile of every English test I've ever taken, even a a child. I've sometimes wondered how that is possible.
 
@FaheemMitha You read, man.
 
@terdon Well, it's just distracting sometimes.
 
11:14 PM
That's all it takes. The vast majority of people never open a book after leaving school.
 
And micturate is an annoying sounding word.
I don't know why. I just don't like it.
@terdon Maybe they need to watch more TBBT.
 
@FaheemMitha I don't even know it. Let me look it up. I'm guessing it has something to do with producing liquids in the body.
 
@terdon Correct. Latin root?
 
Ha!
@FaheemMitha Not that I know of, it sort of felt that way.
 
@terdon oh
 
11:16 PM
Wouldn't have guessed urinate though.
 
hmm. But why not just say urinate?
 
Oh, hang on, there's a membrane with a similar sounding name. Let me find it.
Yeah, nictitating membrane which is neither too similar sounding nor directly relevant to fluids but there you go.
 
On the other hand the word uxorious, though wacky-sounding, is a perfectly reasonable word that doesn't have a reasonable alternative in standard English.
 
@FaheemMitha I know what you mean. It can come across as purely pretentious.
That's a good word.
 
Micturate is an erroneous derivation. That’s why it sounds wrong.
> micturate /ˈmɪktjʊəreɪt/, v.
Etymology: Incorrectly f. L. micturīre: see micturient. (The sense is incorrect as well as the form.)

intr. To urinate.

1842 Lancet 26 Mar. 903/2 ― Another, in long-winded phrase, tells us that his patient ‘desires to micturate’.
1889 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Wom. xxvii. (ed. 4) 220 ― She now complains of pain on micturating.
1899 Allbutt’s Syst. Med. VII. 19 ― If the transverse spinal lesion be complete, the desire to micturate will be lost.
 
11:19 PM
I've actually seen that one used fairly frequently. And I haven't checked, but it is almost certainly either a Greek or Latin root.
@tchrist I don't understand. How is it wrong?
 
> † micˈturient, a. Obs.
Etymology: ad. L. micturient-em, pres. pple. of micturīre, desiderative vb. f. mict-, minct-, mingĕre to make water.

Desirous of making water.

1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xxii. 274 ― Which··gave Sancho to perceive his condition very micturient, and cacaturient.
It’s not a first conjugation verb for one thing.
So it doesn’t get -ate.
 
@tchrist Oh, you mean in the sense of a Latin derivative?
 
Yes.
 
Sorry, I don't know Latin.
Ok.
 
Any Romance will do.
 
11:20 PM
I guess knowing Latin and Greek is useful in English. Because they use heapings of both.
 
It’s an -ir(e) verb.
 
I'm afraid @tchrist often assumes the rest of us have his level of linguistic knowledge. I guess we could claim that the underlying error is what bugged us (you) in the first place but that would be cheating.
 
minga minga minga minga minga minga
 
Also, a large vocab doesn't capture idiomatic usage, which is a central part of English, and possibly all languages, though I don't really know any.
 
Know any what?
 
11:21 PM
@terdon No, I just find the sound of it annoying. It's possible that it came about because of the objections of my inner Latin pedant, but we don't speak, so I don't know.
 
The verb should be from mingĕre.
 
@FaheemMitha It should, that's part of what vocabulary is.
 
That’s the one that means to make water.
Whereas micturīre is wanting to do so.
And we still aren't at first conjugation yet.
 
@terdon Huh? No, I meant phrases. And non-standard usages of standard words, in specific contexts.
 
Oh
 
11:23 PM
Take the English word "normal". It can mean quite a wide variety of things.
 
You need to know 13yos.
 
Huh?
 
And probably girls.
All new vocabulary starts with 13-year-old girls.
 
I don't follow.
 
@tchrist I wonder if that's the source of minging.
 
11:23 PM
@tchrist Oh, you mean slang?
 
@terdon Probs.
 
Huh, no, it comes from the Scots: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mingin
 
You mean like totes and jelly? I got both of those from Pitch Perfect.
 
@FaheemMitha New language usage.
 
According to wiktionary anyway.
 
11:25 PM
For example, normal has a bunch of meanings in math alone, depending on context. For example, a normal subgroup.
 
@terdon That tells us nothing, I fear.
 
@tchrist Well, it takes us one small step down the line.
 
@tchrist So you know Latin then?
 
Minga is not a nice word.
 
"For the last few years I’ve been dabbling in computational linguistics." I'm not sure what that means.
Isn't computational linguistics a research area?
 
11:27 PM
Hence dabble. I was at university bio research dept.
@FaheemMitha A bit.
 
@tchrist oh. How is that related to comp linguistics?
 
Verb: minga
  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mingere
Noun: minga
  1. ant
  2. minga f (plural mingas)
  3. minga f (plural mingas)
@FaheemMitha We were doing NLP on biomed research papers.
 
@tchrist Oh, I see. Was it interesting?
 
More like frustrating.
All that mattered was getting a paper published and a grant renewed. Actually learning anything or finishing anything never mattered.
 
Hmm, heard of that. Trying to pull info out of them without actually reading it, right? I believe the word ontology is sometimes used in that context.
@tchrist Yes, that sounds like most of university research.
 
11:30 PM
I HATE THAT WORD!
But yes.
 
Universities are not immune to Sturgeon's law.
@tchrist what, ontologies? yes, me too. It's like the quintessential buzzword.
 
Go reïfy yourself.
 
@tchrist Huh, presumably the same root as migas. Something tiny: breadcrumbs, ants etc.
 
Another horrible term.
 
reïfy?
 
11:31 PM
Yes.
It should not exist.
> Spanish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
minga f (plural mingas)

collective work
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
minga f (plural mingas)

(derogatory) penis
 
Don't know that one.
 
@FaheemMitha I spent the last 4 years working with biological term ontologies. As useful as they are infuriating.
 
Reify is Pretensese for thingify: making up relationships.
 
@tchrist Make real, in other words?
 
It has no English real word at its base.
 
11:33 PM
@terdon How are they useful?
 
It’s a back formation.
 
@FaheemMitha As a hierarchical controlled vocabulary to describe protein functions. The different function tags are connected with relationships such as is_a or not_a or part_of
 
Take Latin re(s) meaning thing, add an asquerous -eification, then back off that and verb it. Sucks donkey dick.
 
@tchrist Backmation?
 
That lets you deal with them in abstract ways.
 
11:34 PM
Create.
Infer.
 
@terdon What do you use it for?
 
We have words for this.
Make.
 
@FaheemMitha For example, I used it to get a value for how often a particular function is carried out by the same protein.
 
You mean like for example manipulate them programmatically.
 
@terdon Yes.
 
11:35 PM
@terdon I see. Kinda.
 
That’s the sort of thing we used them for. There are millions of these it seems.
I can't remember a one.
 
Sleep time. Later, people.
 
Later
 
People who use ontology in that way like to reify res out of thin air.
The whole academic world you have to operate in for such work is filled with pretentious language like that.
 
Pretentious? Moi?
 
11:38 PM
Ontological reïfication is pretentious.
 
But yeah. We need to make up jargon otherwise the plebes would understand that what we do ain't that hard after all.
 
11:50 PM
Too broad:
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Q: Are there instances when a new term has been purposely introduced into the language and actually put to use?

Cranky GoddessI am thinking of the suggested use of ze as an alternative for he or she. I cannot think of an example where such a thing has actually been adopted and put to general use.

 
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