Theme: Grammar

Curt Doolittle updated his status.

—“Ball as in ‘sphere’ comes from Norse ‘bÇ«llr’ /bɔlːr/, while ball as in ‘dance party’ comes from Latin ‘ballare’, which in turn became ‘bal’ (French for ‘a dance’). Totally different roots, it’s just one of those quirks of English having absorbed bits of so many different languages.”—

Tip that some people get and some people fail to get: *Always Use Series*.

—“mythology, values, rituals, signals, institutions, language, culture, and kinship”—

—“ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism, and deceit”—

—“murder, violence, theft, fraud, free riding, socialization of losses, privatization of the commons, conspiracy, statism, conversion, immigration, conquest”—

—“Idealism, abrahamism, pilpul vs critique, sophism, justificaitonary rationalism, propaganda”—

—“Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Rousseauianism, Kantianism, Marxism, Keynesianism, Frankfurt School, Feminism, Postmodernism, Outright Lying”—-

—” logic, math, accounting, algorithms, recipes(protocols), science (operations), testimony, written prose, ordinary language, idiomatic speech, storytelling, fiction, fictionalisms, deceits”—

—“Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Natural Law and Markets in Everything”—

Each of these series contains all the information necessary to construct very complex arguments. and the virtue of repeating them, and any other series of definitions, is that it is extremely hard to play word games when all words as such are subject to competition in each such series.