James Tauber
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Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music
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Perseus, Greek Learner Texts, @digitaltolkien.com
OG Web, Python, Corpus Linguistics, DataViz, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Space, Health, Retro Computing
Perseus, Greek Learner Texts, @digitaltolkien.com
I refuse to give them up!
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I refuse to give them up!
Also the main subject tantalizingly ends -ACH (but no B!)
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Also the main subject tantalizingly ends -ACH (but no B!)
I myself also accept the emphatic usage even without the conjunction :-)
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I myself also accept the emphatic usage even without the conjunction :-)
And this is the baby! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo...
Christopher Chaplin - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
And this is the baby! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo...
S: No, no, no, I drove him away. AND, I'm gonna be forty.
H: When?
S: Someday.
H: In eight years!
S: But it's there. It's just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
H: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.
H: When?
S: Someday.
H: In eight years!
S: But it's there. It's just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
H: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
S: No, no, no, I drove him away. AND, I'm gonna be forty.
H: When?
S: Someday.
H: In eight years!
S: But it's there. It's just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
H: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.
H: When?
S: Someday.
H: In eight years!
S: But it's there. It's just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
H: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.
It does raise the question of why it isn't in OED. Perhaps because its morphology is so transparent?
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It does raise the question of why it isn't in OED. Perhaps because its morphology is so transparent?
Wikipedia says the term was adopted by NASA in 2001 and in 2006 the “Heliophysics Science Division” was formed.
Now it’s not in the OED as a headword although interestingly the entry for the adjective “Alfvenic” has a citation of a journal called Heliophysics so the word literally does appear :-)
Now it’s not in the OED as a headword although interestingly the entry for the adjective “Alfvenic” has a citation of a journal called Heliophysics so the word literally does appear :-)
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Wikipedia says the term was adopted by NASA in 2001 and in 2006 the “Heliophysics Science Division” was formed.
Now it’s not in the OED as a headword although interestingly the entry for the adjective “Alfvenic” has a citation of a journal called Heliophysics so the word literally does appear :-)
Now it’s not in the OED as a headword although interestingly the entry for the adjective “Alfvenic” has a citation of a journal called Heliophysics so the word literally does appear :-)
I'm telling you, it's the typography and graphic design
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I'm telling you, it's the typography and graphic design