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Are you familiar with Don Knuth's "3:16" project? www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/316.h...
3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated
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December 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Are you familiar with Don Knuth's "3:16" project? www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/316.h...
Is it true that some people pronounce "Merriam", "Marriam", and "Mariam" with the same vowel?
December 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Is it true that some people pronounce "Merriam", "Marriam", and "Mariam" with the same vowel?
At a Boston-area NPL minicon in 2018 or so, Tortoise gave out Connecting Wall nametags as the icebreaker. Find your three partners and enter your 4 number codes on a phone-friendly website to confirm the quartet. It was great.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
At a Boston-area NPL minicon in 2018 or so, Tortoise gave out Connecting Wall nametags as the icebreaker. Find your three partners and enter your 4 number codes on a phone-friendly website to confirm the quartet. It was great.
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Oops, wrong handle. Sorry.
December 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Oops, wrong handle. Sorry.
Yes. Much much more worth tuning in to than anything else that might be on at that time, say on the Tiff-Fanny network.
And also very important to make sure the overnight ratings numbers reflect that choice.
Spread the word.
And also very important to make sure the overnight ratings numbers reflect that choice.
Spread the word.
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Yes. Much much more worth tuning in to than anything else that might be on at that time, say on the Tiff-Fanny network.
And also very important to make sure the overnight ratings numbers reflect that choice.
Spread the word.
And also very important to make sure the overnight ratings numbers reflect that choice.
Spread the word.
סַנְהֶדְרִין הַהוֹרֶגֶת אֶחָד בְּשָׁבוּעַ נִקְרֵאת חָבְלָנִית. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה אוֹמֵר, אֶחָד לְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה.
A sanhedrin that executes once in seven years, is called murderous. Rabbi Eliezer b. Azariah Says: once in seventy years.
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A sanhedrin that executes once in seven years, is called murderous. Rabbi Eliezer b. Azariah Says: once in seventy years.
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Mishnah Makkot 1:10
This mishna continues to discuss the matter of testimony in the case of one who is liable to be executed. Concerning one whose verdict was delivered and he was...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
סַנְהֶדְרִין הַהוֹרֶגֶת אֶחָד בְּשָׁבוּעַ נִקְרֵאת חָבְלָנִית. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה אוֹמֵר, אֶחָד לְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה.
A sanhedrin that executes once in seven years, is called murderous. Rabbi Eliezer b. Azariah Says: once in seventy years.
www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Makk...
A sanhedrin that executes once in seven years, is called murderous. Rabbi Eliezer b. Azariah Says: once in seventy years.
www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Makk...
I'm not sure whether to be more amused that they wrote "Sunday" or appalled that they conveniently ignore the fact that in Jewish law, saving a life suspends the Sabbath.
December 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I'm not sure whether to be more amused that they wrote "Sunday" or appalled that they conveniently ignore the fact that in Jewish law, saving a life suspends the Sabbath.
"Play-Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey"
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Play-Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey"
Back to what I love: Thumb tabs! (I would love a video showing how they execute those).
And the arrangement of the table of contents is brilliant; I’ve never seen one done like that before and I collect clever typographical solutions.
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And the arrangement of the table of contents is brilliant; I’ve never seen one done like that before and I collect clever typographical solutions.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Back to what I love: Thumb tabs! (I would love a video showing how they execute those).
And the arrangement of the table of contents is brilliant; I’ve never seen one done like that before and I collect clever typographical solutions.
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And the arrangement of the table of contents is brilliant; I’ve never seen one done like that before and I collect clever typographical solutions.
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Similarly, the kind of “up-wrapping” that the NI2 bottom matter uses to save space could also have been adopted here to facilitate including more entries.
But I guess people who don’t love dictionaries might be put off by that.
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But I guess people who don’t love dictionaries might be put off by that.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Similarly, the kind of “up-wrapping” that the NI2 bottom matter uses to save space could also have been adopted here to facilitate including more entries.
But I guess people who don’t love dictionaries might be put off by that.
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But I guess people who don’t love dictionaries might be put off by that.
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I wonder whether they considered having the kind of small-type mini-entries that the Second Unabridged used "below the line" for variant spellings and the like as a way to shoehorn more in there.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I wonder whether they considered having the kind of small-type mini-entries that the Second Unabridged used "below the line" for variant spellings and the like as a way to shoehorn more in there.
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I also miss the mini-pronunciation guide at the footer of each page, but I agree that this is worth the tradeoff to fit in more entries.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I also miss the mini-pronunciation guide at the footer of each page, but I agree that this is worth the tradeoff to fit in more entries.
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The now-gone list of "Foreign Words and Phrases" was useful in that @bcdreyer.social recommended it as a guide for when a word has not yet been sufficiently assimilated into English to avoid getting italicized.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The now-gone list of "Foreign Words and Phrases" was useful in that @bcdreyer.social recommended it as a guide for when a word has not yet been sufficiently assimilated into English to avoid getting italicized.
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Some less-major gripes: I already miss the Gazetteer and Biographical listings. I use them a lot when solving puzzles, so I guess my 11C will stay on the shelf next to the 12C (although an update here would be valuable).
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Some less-major gripes: I already miss the Gazetteer and Biographical listings. I use them a lot when solving puzzles, so I guess my 11C will stay on the shelf next to the 12C (although an update here would be valuable).
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Is it now reverse chronological order, or some lexicographer’s judgement of which senses are more common in contemporary usage? The front matter no longer explains.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Is it now reverse chronological order, or some lexicographer’s judgement of which senses are more common in contemporary usage? The front matter no longer explains.
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The 11th and earlier editions listed senses in chronological order by first evidence. The 12th does not explain the ordering of the senses and it has clearly changed (e.g., compare “ovation”).
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November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The 11th and earlier editions listed senses in chronological order by first evidence. The 12th does not explain the ordering of the senses and it has clearly changed (e.g., compare “ovation”).
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I love the fact that "challah" and "afikomen" are two foods whose names come from the thing we're *not* supposed to eat.
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I love the fact that "challah" and "afikomen" are two foods whose names come from the thing we're *not* supposed to eat.
"...slumbers not nor sleeps," as they say.
April 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"...slumbers not nor sleeps," as they say.