Do you pronounce abatis as /ˈæb.ə.tɪs/?

I think there's an additional "i" there: /æb.ˈəɪ.tɪs/

And the stress should fall on the second syllable

@CowperKettle howjsay.com/how-to-pronounce-abatis

Many possible pronunciations.

Ah!

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:en-ca-abatis.ogg

@CowperKettle Perhaps that pronunciation is illitterate?

I don't know.

Word of the day: hylozoism (the belief that all matter is alive in some sense)

Now that word I knew.

Common in many old cultures.

Subtly different from animism.

Do you know the word subungual exostosis? It was also common in many old cultures.

Hah.

))

External bone growth under the nails?

I'm just going through my daily read of words to be memorized

@Cerberus yes

I have no idea what that would look like...

@CowperKettle Wouldn't it be better to learn some Latin vocabulary?

Much more efficient.

Then you can guess most such words.

Maybe

Cya!

Bye!

@CowperKettle Thanks for making me Google Image that...

Word of the hour: BIPOC

Biological term of the day: nest scrape, the simplest form of a bird nest

@Cerberus I'm glad to inspire curiosity

I have solved 18 consecutive redactle puzzles, sometimes using outside information. I always solve the wordle and usually get the worldle by using Google Earth.

At this time (11 hours after its release) just under 12,000 people have solved today’s redactle (a typical day). That’s not really a large number.

Such a shame I had no clue about today's Worldle. I didn't use my brain. Or maybe I have too low IQ.

"The island is covered in ice with (an?) average thickness of 10 meters". I think there should be "an" there.

@CowperKettle That's how I would play it.

Precision medicine. A sister and a brother are suffering from autism and intellectual disability. Doctors found that the sister has a deletion affecting SHANK3, and her brother has likely pathogenic variations in seven different genes pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35743796

This is cool.

SHANK3 affects the workings of synapses, and its mutations are linked both to autism and schizophrenia (subtype schizophrenia 15)

I'm reading neuropsychiatry news instead of political news.

There's more hope in neuropsychiatry news.

@Cerberus: I can't make any headway on the current Redactle. At 100 tries so far and it's still opaque.

@CowperKettle They're different?

lolz

I thought you were getting all these articles as translation assignments. So you're following news releases from journal publishers?

I'm following the Jan 6 committee meetings only very slightly (out of the corner of my eye) (for similar reasons as @CowperKettle is avoiding his news)

But the thing that jumps out at me is that all these people they are interviewing and are saying TFG was trying to install an incompetent lawyer to head the DOJ and something something voter fraud in his favor, all these people said they'd resign immediately because it was illegal...well these people sound so forthright and principled and doing the right thing...

but before that all these people were totally pro-TFG.

So I'm bewildered, wondering what was the cutoff point for them? "TFG is great, he's doing what we want, pushing our awful backwards-in-1950 agenda of eating dead babies, plain with no sauce... but holy shit that other guy who also totally pro-TFG is my subordinate and TFG might make him my boss? Hell no!"

@Mitch Of course they are different. In neuropsychiatry, there's some hope that the patients will get treatment. In politics..

..the patients run the hospital.

@Mitch Why do we add zzzz after lol?

@Vikas 1) I've seen other people do it. Maybe cats do it? 2) it's just for fun, that's why I chose it.

@Mitch lolzzz

So many z's!

We used to do it on Facebook without any clue what it means.

I say all sorts of blurgh without splunking what it really means.

It can get to the point where mamoo dogface in the banana patch frin texlog da mulligot.

If you know what I mean.

@Mitch No I didn't XD

Next up... all emojis

Tough words

Private language

I went bicycling today and saw a man with a t-shirt with "Z", but there was no lol.

@CowperKettle LOL

@CowperKettle 😞

> Raffles City is suite of eight buildings in Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China. It features a 300-m-long horizontal skybridge called "Crystal" that connects the top of four of the skycrapers.

What makes us human, at the neuronal network level? We discovered a dramatic (10-fold) expansion of interneuron-to-interneuron networks in the human brain compared to mouse: science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0924

> Ukraine will need at least 10 years to demine its territory, official says

> I solved today's Redactle (#79) in 21 guesses with an accuracy of 61.90%. Played at redactle.com

Much, much easier than yesterday's.

Did anyone get yesterday's Redactle? I'd like to know what the solution was.

@CowperKettle why does this look so dystopian? I think I'd be pretty depressed in China.

@Vikas just the one, that i know of. It's evolved as a form of emphasis, who knows why.

@M.A.R. On second thought, there is a single z used to pluralize lol (lolz, or lulz), so multiple instances of the z (lolzzzzzzzzz) is just an emphasis, similar to strings of exclamation points.

Redactle 78 was Foodborne Illness.