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Jordan_Pelt commented on Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] classes.matthewjbrown.net... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

SoftTalker · 4 months ago

Shocking that a wife might willingly want to help her husband with something important to him.

Jordan_Pelt · 4 months ago

I'm sure she does, but that's beside the point. Why should we pay any attention to the opinions of a person on replacing something he doesn't use with something else he won't use. He may as well say that he won't buy a snowblower because his groundskeeper uses a shovel and does just fine.

Jordan_Pelt commented on Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] classes.matthewjbrown.net... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

Jordan_Pelt · 4 months ago

"My wife types my work..."

Those five words render the entire essay meaningless.

Jordan_Pelt commented on A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter noemamag.com/a-radical-ne... · Posted by u/Hooke

Jordan_Pelt · 6 months ago

I'm probably a crackpot, but I'm convinced it's the other way around--matter emerges from mind. The only refutation I'm familiar with is Samuel Johnson kicking a rock, which I don't find very persuasive.

Jordan_Pelt commented on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more blog.plover.com/lang/etym... · Posted by u/JNRowe

hennell · 7 months ago

English does a lot of shorting, rhyming nicknames. We even like to lengthen the rhyming part back out to be even more confusing.

• Richard -> Rick -> Dick

• William -> Will -> Bill -> Billy

• Robert -> Rob -> Bob -> Bobby

• Margaret -> Meg -> Peg -> Peggy

• Edward -> Ed -> Ned | Ted -> Teddy

A lot of common names also have just a variant which barely seems related:

• Henry -> Harry

• John -> Jack

• James -> Jim

And you'll have to Google for all the nicknames for "Elizabeth" because I can't remember them all.

What we lack for creativity in names themselves, we make up for with creative nicknames because every other kid is called Elizabeth.

Jordan_Pelt · 7 months ago

Hank and Hal are also short for Henry.

Jordan_Pelt commented on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more blog.plover.com/lang/etym... · Posted by u/JNRowe

soneca · 7 months ago

I didn’t know English had a diminutive suffix (-kin). Is it used still in common English?

We have it Portuguese (-inho/-inha) and I find them so useful. It always seemed a missing feature of English.

Also, is there an augmentative suffix as well that I don’t know about?

Jordan_Pelt · 7 months ago

The only example I can think of is "munchkin" which was apparently coined by Frank Baum for The Wizard of Oz.

Jordan_Pelt commented on The story of my home made pipe organ (2000) sentex.ca/~mwandel/organ/... · Posted by u/ynac

cbsks · 7 months ago

There’s a fascinating series of YouTube videos of someone buying and refurbishing a church organ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxDd_1O...

Jordan_Pelt · 7 months ago

An amazing project, and I love that he always calls it "Joan's organ." What a tribute.

Jordan_Pelt commented on Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021) madpsy.uk/link-between-th... · Posted by u/xanderlewis

xanderlewis · 7 months ago

See also the theme music of the television version of 'Inspector Morse', though perhaps that's not very surprising.

Jordan_Pelt · 7 months ago

...and the opening of the Rush song YYZ.

Jordan_Pelt commented on The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age thewalrus.ca/collapse-of-... · Posted by u/pseudolus

herval · a year ago

how are schools any close to prisons, other than both involving humans?

Jordan_Pelt · a year ago

A chapter in Chemerinsky's casebook on Constitutional law is titled "Speech in Authoritarian Environments: Military, Prisons, and Schools."

Jordan_Pelt commented on The centrality of stupidity in mathematics mathforlove.com/2024/09/t... · Posted by u/ColinWright

ColinWright · a year ago

There is an alternate interpretation, that the existence of an explicit exception proves (confirms) the existence of a rule to which an exception can be made.

So the (existence of an) exception proves (the existence of) the rule.

Jordan_Pelt · a year ago

That's what I always thought it meant. For example, if a sign says "No Parking 4-6 PM" that proves that parking is allowed there at all other times.

Jordan_Pelt commented on Asking the wrong questions (2017) ben-evans.com/benedicteva... · Posted by u/adamc

Jordan_Pelt · a year ago

>and computerised taxation (except in the USA).

I don't understand this. Does he not think the IRS uses computers?

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