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Depends on the source. Knowing what I was looking for, I was able to find a listing of the whole conjugation table on wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adamo#Latin) and another site that used the standard 4 forms for listing a latin verb (http://www.latin-dictionary.net/info/word/728.html).

After playing around a bit with your translator, it looks like it translates any first person present latin verb into the english infinitive. So the confusion is coming from a bad translation convention.

"Sensels"? There's no need to invent new words. The word "pixel" means "picture element" and is relevant whether discussing monitors or CCDs. Stick with accepted terminology.

sensel. Not my invention, I assure you.

Pixels emit data. Pixel is a neologism coined from picture + element.

Sensels collect data. Sensel is a neologism coined from sensor + element.

They're not doing even remotely the same task. Consequently there is a practical reason to discriminate between them. If you are under the impression that anything arranged in a grid that does anything with light, regardless of task, is a pixel, then I suggest you get over to Wham-a-lart and ask them for some linoleum pixels and see what that gets you.

If this aggravates you, I'm sorry. Language evolves despite the digging in of your heels.

This is, indeed, an interesting coincidence. "Syf" (sing.) or "syfy" (plur.) in polish means filth, scum, acne and also syphilis: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/syf. Makes also an interesting metatextual link to another recent Slashdot submission because of the common saying "syf i malaria" (syphylis and malaria) denoting a complete and utter mess, SNAFU etc.

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Spelling police
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lense

From the RTFA,

Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat and the kind of innovations that people came up with were just mind-boggling, Gupta said.

Is IBM saying that these people from Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat are mind boggled when they are introduced to "Phone Mazes From Hell?" That the rest of us have had to endure from the Faceless Ones for years? Or is Gupta saying that these noble folk were mind boggled when they hear voices respond back on a cell phone?

The word you are looking for is "conflating".

You seem to be under the delusion that that constitutes a problem somehow. There are plenty of opinions that are dead wrong, and plenty of people repeatedly spouting them off anyhow.

In general, what you described is a good thing. It's called calling a liar a liar. It's only a bad thing if the opinion in question even has any merit in the first place, which I note you haven't even bothered attempting to demonstrate, instead choosing to whine that everyone doesn't treat reality as if it were a Fox news segment.

You seem to be confused about opinions being right or wrong. Read up on it and then try to offer something beneficial to the conversation.

Having an opinion that differs from yours doesn't make someone a liar. Nor does having a misguided opinion based on incorrect information. Blatantly making false statements, however, might. If anything, your thoughts on the matter are more Fox News (in the bogus Fair and Balanced view) than anything I've said.

Invent:
1 archaic : find, discover
2: to devise by thinking : fabricate
3: to produce (as something useful) for the first time through the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment

Or from Wiktionary:
1. To design a new process or mechanism.
2. To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

Regardless of the definition you use, to me (and to others it would seem), it came across as more of a snide remark than an extension of the joke.

It's pretty funny that you link to an explanation of a word most English speakers already know, and spell it wrong in the process.

See, the immigrants don't care that much about a living wage, because they aren't citizens and they don't plan to stay.

An immigrant is, by definition of the word, someone who plans to stay.

some of these assertions seem questionable, but the asian language relation to math is very true. In math and related subjects you really start to see the value of ideogram based writing systems over purely phonetic alphabets. here is a perfect example from japanese: convex = å http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B8 concave = å http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B9 which is easier to remember or understand?

some of these assertions seem questionable, but the asian language relation to math is very true. In math and related subjects you really start to see the value of ideogram based writing systems over purely phonetic alphabets. here is a perfect example from japanese: convex = å http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B8 concave = å http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B9 which is easier to remember or understand?

See 8
See 6

After thinking about it I do agree that it sounds a bit strange, but only because of the way the author wrote it. The verb is technically fine, but it just doesn't "fit".

Wiktionary defines a monkey trap as "a cage containing a banana with a hole large enough for a monkey's hand to fit in, but not large enough for a monkey's fist (clutching a banana) to come out. Used to 'catch' monkeys that lack the intellect to let go of the banana and run away."

I think the lure of requiring customers to buy new books rather than borrow or buy them used has placed book publishers in a situation similar to that of the monkey who can't get his hand out of the trap because he's too greedy -- or perhaps just not intelligent enough -- to realize it's in his best interests to let go.

while you are generally correct, virii can mean all forms of malware (sense 2). Also note that the Jargon File endorses 'linguistic playfulness' (probably not a verbatim quote).

see adjective

jet (plural jets)

1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
3. A class of airplane using jet engines rather than propellors.
4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
5. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.

Pay particular attention to number 4.

burdgeoning

Ack. The pain!

Be careful with your big words there, sonny. You might hurt someone.

burgeoning

Ahh, the stupidity or nativity of some people.

Naitivity is not a word in the English language

Oo, sorry, *double* fail there. Properly spelled (as it is in the OP), nativity is indeed a word in the English language, as evidenced by entries in dictionaries such as, say, Wiktionary, or Merriam-Webster. However, given that it means "birth" (and usually Jesus' birth at that, c.f. Christmas dioramas), you're probably right that the OP meant naïveté instead. :)

Cheers,

"Red ushanka"?

it is described as a theory.

There are multiple definitions for theory, here are two of them (from the Wiktionary): 1) An unproven conjecture, and 2) A coherent statement or set of statements that attempts to explain observed phenomena.

Proponents of intelligent design like to claim that scientists mean definition 1. But really we mean definition 2.

Do evolutionary biologists understand everything there is to know about evolution? Absolutely not. Not even close. Our definitions of it will continue to change as we learn more. However, it is a much more coherent explanation of the observed phenomena than ID. In fact, some biologists are even religious, preferring to focus on the mechanisms of evolution rather than nitpicking of why evolution came to happen.

...plus a second keyboard with all 50,000 kanji characters

Minor quibble -- kanji is the Japanese word for Chinese characters, and Japanese really only makes use of ~2,500 kanji or so on a regular basis, with a total lexicon of maybe ~5,500. If you mean Chinese characters as used in Korean, say hanja. If you mean Chinese characters as used in Chinese, say hanzi. (Naturally, all three words are 'spelled' the same way when using Chinese characters.)

That aside, if you're at all interested about typing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or various other non-Latin-based scripts, look up "input method editor" or "IME" on Google. I'm a Japanese-English translator by trade, and I've also studied some Chinese and Korean. I routinely have to type in at least one of these non-Latin scripts, using my stock-standard US keyboard. The IME is programmed to read in certain Latin character combinations and convert these into the appropriate script, offering alternates when these exist.

So say I activate the Japanese IME here in MS Word and type in "seikou" and hit the space bar -- I get a drop-down showing 23 different possible kanji renderings for this reading, together with hiragana and katakana. Well-programmed IMEs also allow for new renderings to be added in addition to the built-in dictionaries.

The sheer number of characters required, and the ridiculously huge keyboards needed to input these in any hardware-based solution, is precisely why computers took so much longer to gain market penetration in China, Korea, and Japan (among other countries). It wasn't until the software capabilities caught up to the linguistic and practical realities that widespread local-language computer usage was feasible.

Cheers,

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flash_mob

No you don't... ? :)

yes it does : voilà (use agrave html entity)

well maybe the thread is long and off-topic enough now.

The word you're looking for is "voila"

Voila: I don't think that word means what you think it does.

ROFLCOPTER!1!!

Maybe you are looking for a viola, perhaps?
*hint: it is a string instrument*

Damn, I love it when a pedantic twit has one blow up in his/her face!!!
Thanks for making my day more amusing than it already was!

The word you're looking for is "voila"

Voila: I don't think that word means what you think it does.

ROFLCOPTER!1!!

Maybe you are looking for a viola, perhaps?
*hint: it is a string instrument*

Damn, I love it when a pedantic twit has one blow up in his/her face!!!
Thanks for making my day more amusing than it already was!

I don't think "gaudy" means what you seem to think.

gaudy: Excessively showy or ornamented in a tasteless or vulgar manner.

That's like the opposite of "simplistic single-purpose design".

Whereas I was also quite stumped at the, what I thought to be, sloppy abbreviation; it's an actual word!

Or at least Wikipedia says so.

...always check your facts before attempting to correct any mistake. Case in point: "express" can also be used as an adjective, meaning "explicit" and opposed to "tacit" or "implicit".

Next time, spend 20 seconds doing some research before making a fool out of yourself.

Incorrect.
To literally sugarcoat means to coat with sugar.
The alternative, to figuratively sugarcoat (i.e. the figure of speech) is to make appear more pleasant or acceptable.

Not really, there are 2 definitions of literally: actually, and figuratively.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/literally

Just another auto-antonym.

CA wants a ban on energy guzzling Plasma as well ...and no, LCD isn't immune.

I'm reading a number of /. posts from folks who feel this matter should be 'left to the market.'

LOL

...they weren't wikipedia if they emulate it too closely they will disenfranchise that audience.

You might be interested in Wikipedia's smaller sister project, Wiktionary.

There you can find the definitions of all kinds of useful words, like disenfranchise and, perhaps, disenchant .

...they weren't wikipedia if they emulate it too closely they will disenfranchise that audience.

You might be interested in Wikipedia's smaller sister project, Wiktionary.

There you can find the definitions of all kinds of useful words, like disenfranchise and, perhaps, disenchant .

...they weren't wikipedia if they emulate it too closely they will disenfranchise that audience.

You might be interested in Wikipedia's smaller sister project, Wiktionary.

There you can find the definitions of all kinds of useful words, like disenfranchise and, perhaps, disenchant .

See definition 2 here. Regarding the "gun to my head". While there is certainly no gun to it now, that doesn't make the coercion no less real. Simple inaction on my part, without violating any individual rights, can quickly bring that gun to my head. This is the clearest explanation of the coercion I referred to.

That would be soyuzy .

And viola, bands 2 and 3 have new fans.

Viola is not voila.

...pushing an unmanned airforce leaves something to be desired.

Uralic languages lack grammatical gender. In e.g. Finnish, there is only one word for he and she: hän .

I think you're wrong.

I think everyone can agree that this word is definitely bad.

According to this here, that would be something that is:

      1. (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
      2. Rude, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

Looking up obscene results in:

      1. Offensive to the current standards of decency or morality
      2. Lewd or lustful
      3. Disgusting or repulsive
      4. Beyond all reason
      5. Liable to deprave or corrupt

This law qualifies at least for 3 and 4. Depending on your point of view, for all of them.

According to this here, that would be something that is:

      1. (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
      2. Rude, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

Looking up obscene results in:

      1. Offensive to the current standards of decency or morality
      2. Lewd or lustful
      3. Disgusting or repulsive
      4. Beyond all reason
      5. Liable to deprave or corrupt

This law qualifies at least for 3 and 4. Depending on your point of view, for all of them.

I think it's a corruption of "get" implying "ill-gotten" or something. See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#Etymology

If you really want to go back to the source, "giga" is Greek and uses a "j" sound.

Consider the word "gigantic". It has the same root, "giga". Some people pronounce it with a hard "g", some with a soft "g".

The language is a mess.

While I often found his stories and comments to be far reaching, overstated, overly optimistic & sometimes bordered on religious zealotry, I will miss his contributions and wish his family and friends well. I hope they know that Roland was a man committed to the proliferation of technology and advancements has done great things for both our community & society.

It is also comforting to see a soul survive and prosper in a technological field and end up where they want to live blogging peacefully. I hope my own retirement and passing are similar instead of some of the mindless inane existences I know my ancestors have lived out in nursing homes and/or in front of a TV.

voilà: French word used for "There you have it!" My French is tres mal by now but I guess it's derived from "vois", "I/you look" and "là", "there"
Viola: String instrument, with its pitch between violin and chello.

I agree that there are a lot of quacks that are in it for the money, but when I was in China my friend with a slipped disk was having some serious back pains and went to a doctor of Chinese medicine. After a fire-cupping and drinking herbal teas for a week he helt much better.

Not again...

"I know about the placebo effect, but it worked for me!"

"Censorship is a dangerous tool for the powerful to have, but we need to filter the Internet so we can catch those spammers and traders of music and child porn!"

"Those Mormons and Scientologists are crazy, but MY religion deserves respect!"

Hypocrites. You're just as bad as those you decry.

"Yeah, all those OTHER forms of woo are bunk, but MY pet woo is for real!"

A: A physics-nazi that feels compelled to scrutinize the minutia of jokes.

I think you mean minutiae. ;)

A Grammar-nazi

Don't correct someone's usage of a word if you yourself are not knowledgeable about the word. OP used the word correctly in the correct context.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conceive

Spare me from grammar nazis with no sense of humor. I was simply continuing the previous poster's reference to the movie "The Princess Bride". Don't attempt to correct someone's cinematic references if you just don't get the joke.