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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
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English has the largest lexicon of any language.
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I'm into all things lexical.
We have such a high percentage of slang in our language its crazy
You should read "The Meaning of Everything" and "The Professor and the Madman" if you are interested in lexical studies of the English language. Simon Winchester's writing is brilliant.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
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English has the largest lexicon of any language.
or
I'm into all things lexical.
We have such a high percentage of slang in our language its crazy
You should read "The Meaning of Everything" and "The Professor and the Madman" if you are interested in lexical studies of the English language. Simon Winchester's writing is brilliant.
I will. I'm currently reading "The Elements of Style" which my Fiance swears by. She is a fantastic writer.
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
For example:
English has the largest lexicon of any language.
or
I'm into all things lexical.
We have such a high percentage of slang in our language its crazy
You should read "The Meaning of Everything" and "The Professor and the Madman" if you are interested in lexical studies of the English language. Simon Winchester's writing is brilliant.
I will. I'm currently reading "The Elements of Style" which my Fiance swears by. She is a fantastic writer.
I have "The Elements of Java Style"
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
For example:
English has the largest lexicon of any language.
or
I'm into all things lexical.
We have such a high percentage of slang in our language its crazy
You should read "The Meaning of Everything" and "The Professor and the Madman" if you are interested in lexical studies of the English language. Simon Winchester's writing is brilliant.
I will. I'm currently reading "The Elements of Style" which my Fiance swears by. She is a fantastic writer.
I have "The Elements of Java Style"
Is that a paperweight made of paper? Seems redundant but you're all about redundancy
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
For example:
English has the largest lexicon of any language.
or
I'm into all things lexical.
We have such a high percentage of slang in our language its crazy
You should read "The Meaning of Everything" and "The Professor and the Madman" if you are interested in lexical studies of the English language. Simon Winchester's writing is brilliant.
I will. I'm currently reading "The Elements of Style" which my Fiance swears by. She is a fantastic writer.
I have "The Elements of Java Style"
Is that a paperweight made of paper? Seems redundant but you're all about redundancy
Are you saying that Java has so much style anyway?
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Have any of you given thought as to what you might do when you retire? I've thought about this and I'm sure what I want to do will change later in my life, but carpentry is really interesting and fun to me. I will most likely try to master that if I ever am able to retire.
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I am not sure what I will do. But I know that @art_of_shred will go back to custom cabinet making and construction/remodeling. Along with band stuff.
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@wirestyle22 Retiring? In my dreams, I want to run my own tech conglomerate.
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Have any of you given thought as to what you might do when you retire? I've thought about this and I'm sure what I want to do will change later in my life, but carpentry is really interesting and fun to me. I will most likely try to master that if I ever am able to retire.
If you want to do something different when you retire, why not do it now? Don't save what you love for when it is too late.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Have any of you given thought as to what you might do when you retire? I've thought about this and I'm sure what I want to do will change later in my life, but carpentry is really interesting and fun to me. I will most likely try to master that if I ever am able to retire.
If you want to do something different when you retire, why not do it now? Don't save what you love for when it is too late.
When Laura and I build our house and then I invest in the tools etc it will be more realistic. Right now I'm making my own video game.
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Me want one of these........................No idea if I would use one but still want one
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Interesting mini post about sound: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/sound.html
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Interesting mini post about sound: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/sound.html
LOL, it's a good article but should be called "everything you should remember about sound for elementary school"
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Interesting mini post about sound: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/sound.html
LOL, it's a good article but should be called "everything you should remember about sound for elementary school"
There is no way I would have been able to read that in elementary school
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"Your brain has a thought. It translates that thought into a pattern of pressure waves. Then your lungs send air out of your body, but as you do that, you vibrate your vocal chords in just the right way and you move your mouth and tongue into just the right shapes that by the time the air leaves you, it’s embedded with a pattern of high and low pressure areas. The code in that air then spreads out to all the air in the vicinity, a little bit of which ends up in your friend’s ear, where it passes by their eardrum. When it does, it vibrates their eardrum in such a way as to pass on not only the code, but exactly where in the room it came from and the particular tone of voice it came with. The eardrum’s vibrations are transmitted through three tiny bones and into a little sac of fluid, which then transmits the information into electrical impulses and sends them up the auditory nerve and into the brain, where the information is decoded. And all of that happens in an eighth of a second, without any effort from either of you. Talking is a miracle."
