> Note how long the virus may remain on and inside a face mask. This is why you should treat a face mask like a reversed pair of underwear. Be very careful when handling it. Avoid touching your face with the outside of the mask.
"A reversed pair of underwear"?!
Face masks make for strange undies, even reversed.
@tchrist Yes, but what is the most typical word in the sentence "I had a deskmate, a girl named Yulia in my childhood, I always let her ___ my completed homework"
Can we use the word "mentalist" when describing a situation to not think deeply and feel as a philosopher, and say for instance, "You don't need to be a mentalist to rephrase it!"
I am not an English expert, though.
to not go far and think about it equivalent in one-word?
The exact sciences, sometimes called the exact mathematical sciences are those sciences "which admit of absolute precision in their results"; especially the mathematical sciences. Examples of the exact sciences are mathematics, optics, astronomy, and physics, which many philosophers from Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant to the logical positivists took as paradigms of rational and objective knowledge. These sciences have been practiced in many cultures from Antiquity to modern times. Given their ties to mathematics, the exact sciences are characterized by accurate quantitative expression, precise...
> In the early 19th century, the noted German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß called mathematics the "queen of the sciences" because it was so successful at uncovering the nature of physical reality. Gauss's observation is even more accurate in today's age of quantum physics, string theory, chaos theory, information technology, and other mathematics-intensive disciplines that have transformed the way we understand and deal with the world.
Science should be Wissenschaft, which includes all academic disciplines. But it has been restricted to the natural/exact sciences, in a way—and then extended to include many other things, such as sociology.
@Cerberus I think it's important to distinguish between those disciplines that follow the scientific method and those that follow strictly logical methods.
> "Outside of the closed circle of professional mathematicians, almost nothing is known of the true nature of mathematics or of mathematics research." J.P. King [Ki].
> "Those who have never known a professional mathematician may be rather surprised on meeting some, for mathematicians as a class are probably less familiar to the general reader than any other group of brain workers. The mathematician is a much rarer character in fiction than his cousin the scientist." E. T. Bell [Be].
@tchrist The line between math and science is not that sharp. There are some overlaps on the boundaries. Edward Witten, the prominent string-theorist, won the most prestigious award in the world of math.
Here's a quote from Robert Hurley's translation of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality arguing for the historical importance of the anonymous author of My Secret Life:
...he was the most direct and in a way the most naïve representative of a plurisecular injunction to talk about sex.
I'v...
The answers below are correct but it is academese and almost a nonceword. It's not listed in the OED at all and shows up in barely a page worth of English-language listings at Google Books. — lly8 hours ago
Are people seriously expecting to find every possible combination of classical compounds listed in every workbook? Didn't anybody ever teach them how to read these!?
BTW, the OED does list multisecular. It is not remarkable that someone else chose pluri- over multi-, despite the 1:10 prevalence in English. At least they didn’t choose poly- as can easily be found for this word.
> FR multiséculaire, pluriséculaire, polyséculaire IT multisecolare, plurisecolare, polisecolare ES multisecular, plurisecular, polisecular PT multissecular, plurissecular, polissecular
@Cerberus And while you might grasp at eeuwenoud as more natural in your own tongue, surely those others are not in any fashion outré or undecodable to you!
Classical compounds and neoclassical compounds are compound words composed from combining forms (which act as affixes or stems) derived from classical Latin or ancient Greek roots. New Latin comprises many such words and is a substantial component of the technical and scientific lexicon of English and other languages, including international scientific vocabulary. For example, bio- combines with -graphy to form biography ("life" + "writing/recording").
== Source of international technical vocabulary ==
Classical compounds represent a significant source of Neo-Latin vocabulary. Moreover, since...
> Classical compounds represent a significant source of Neo-Latin vocabulary. Moreover, since these words are composed from classical languages whose prestige is or was respected throughout the Western European culture, these words typically appear in many different languages. Their widespread use makes technical writing generally accessible to readers who may only have a smattering of the language in which it appears.
> multisecular adj. Brit. /ˌmʌltɪˈsɛkjᵿlə/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈsɛkjələr/, /ˌməlˌtaɪˈsɛkjələr/, /ˌməltəˈsɛkjələr/ that has existed for many ages; recurring in, or involving many ages.
* The multisecular stability of its primeval basin. * A subcontinent that..seems to have gone through the same multisecular trends. * A multisecular reconceptualization of the kingship took place [in France] from the late medieval period to the eighteenth century.
The term Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery or Berber Coast) was used by Europeans from the 16th century to the early 19th to refer to the coastal regions of North Africa, which were inhabited by Berber people. The land is part of the modern nations of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.
The English term "Barbary" and its European varieties (Barbaria, Berbérie, etc.) could refer to all Berber lands, whether coastal or not, as seen in European geographical and political maps published in the 17th to the 20th centuries.The name derives from the Berber people of North Africa, from Greek Bàrbaroi...
> The name derives from the Berber people of North Africa, from Greek Bàrbaroi (Ancient Greek: Βάρβαροι, literally meaning barbarians) and the Arabic Barbara (Classical Arabic: بَرْبَرَةٌ, meaning jabbering).
> The current Berber name of Melilla is Mřič or Mlilt, which means the "white one". Melilla was an ancient Berber village. It was a Phoenician and later Punic trade establishment under the name of Rusadir (Rusaddir for the Romans and Russadeiron (Ancient Greek: Ῥυσσάδειρον) for the Greeks). Later Rome absorbed it as part of the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana.
The Riffian or Riffian Berber (native local name: Tmaziɣt or Tarifit; external name: Tarifit) is a Zenati Northern Berber language. It is spoken natively by some 6 to 7 million Riffians of Morocco and Algeria, primarily in the Rif provinces of Al Hoceima, Nador, Driouch, Berkane and as a minority language in Tangier, Oujda, Tetouan and Larache, and in Melilla, in Spain. In addition, Riffian expatriate communities also speak the language.
== Classification ==
Riffian is a Zenati Berber language which consists of various sub-dialects specific to each clan and of which a majority are spoken in the...
@tchrist Yeah, plurisecular sounds fine to me, though I can understand how people might misread it, because secular is so very rarely used to mean "of a century or age" in English.
English does have multisecular for the same thing. The Romance tongues, including things I didn't mention like Catalan and Romanian, have all three multi/pluri/poly- varants.
The multi- version being more commonly used in Spanish and Portuguese, not the pluri- version like French.
It would not be unthinkable to have centuria to mean a hundred years in Latin, as it can mean a hundred of several different things; but I don't think it is (ever?) used for a hundred years in practice, and the military sense is overwhelming.
Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also known as Afrasian and in older sources as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, is a large language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel.Afroasiatic languages have over 495 million native speakers, the fourth largest number of any language family (after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan and Niger–Congo). The phylum has six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic and Semitic. By far the most widely spoken Afroasiatic language or dialect continuum is Arabic. A de facto...
@Cerberus Yes, but not just any distinction. The scientific method is empirical by definition. That's why I find it weird that math should be called a science.
The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets the observation. It involves formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental and measurement-based testing of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings. These are principles of the scientific...
I feel much more comfortable calling social sciences "science" than math and geometry.