#language #linguistics
I’m doing the Apple News #Quartiles puzzle, there’s an interesting pair of words, amatory and defamatory. At first glance they look similar and one might think they were close in meaning, i.e., the latter is a modified version of the former, signaled by “def”. But they’re not. The images show definitions from the OED. Does that seem weird/cool to you? Do you know of another similar pair of words? Or maybe a third to these 2? Is there a name for that?

As someone with a career in mathematical optimization, I approve of today’s Apple News Quartiles puzzle. #quartiles #optimization

Journal Citation Reports 2025 released

https://opensocial.at/display/59c238fc-1068-61ac-900f-b23438858655

I feel like this is wrong. Is “sim” not an acceptable truncation of “simulation”? #Quartiles

Woohoo! Second time in less than a week I got all the words in #Quartiles. I’ve got a long streak of getting the 5 big words, but usually give up when I haven’t all of the rest by bed time. Today I finished by 4 o’ clock.

Woo hoo! I got all the words in today’s #Quartiles.

This word should be accepted! 😅 #quartiles

I managed to find a four tile word in Quartiles that is not one of the words we need to find and I think that means I win the game for all time? #Quartiles

"biodynamic" kicked my ass today. #quartiles