Bemoaning
(bɪˈmoʊn.ɪŋ ,
bɪˈməʊn.ɪŋ)
verb
:contraction of "bitching and moaning"
Why the Way you see the World might Depend on the Languages you know
Have you ever been mid-conversation and realized the perfect word for what you're feeling doesn't exist in English? If you grow up speaking an Indian language, this happens constantly. You find yourself pausing before translating jugaad, knowing "hack" doesn't quite cut it. Or you try explaining the Bengali concept of obhiman to a non-native speaker, only to realize it takes an entire paragraph to unpack what one word captures effortlessly. This isn't because English is flawed, or because […]
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Yikes. The Elizabethans' idea of the Turks' idea of a happy ending?
From the fun, quirky free site A.Word.A.Day (https://wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html):
hiren: a seductive woman
In the lost play "The Turkish Mahomet and Hiren the Fair Greek" (1594), attributed to George Peele —
The sultan Mahomet is presented with a beautiful young Greek slave, Hiren. Besotted, he neglects affairs of state. When an adviser complains, Mahomet proves he can master his passions by beheading Hiren.
Crepuscular is such a great word.
Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards
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Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from? When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it? I think we all do. The word is never the start. The word is just the skin. The idea, the consciousness, is the thing sitting under it.
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