Xah Wordy Blog
Disorder of a Man of Letters — Xah Belles-lettres
- Technical writing exercise.
- which one is better?
// set aa to be the parent of bb. // make aa to be the parent of bb. // make aa the parent of bb. // aa is parent of bb. make it so. Reflect.setPrototypeOf(bb, aa);
- my preference is the bottom one.
- least favorite at top.
- Reason:
- “to be” is nasty. Avoid it. Too complicated involving concept of time. Usually not necessary.
- Avoid the word “set”. Too many diverse meanings.
- The phrase “set a to b” has ambiguous interpretation. By standard english it means b=a, but but the natural meaning in coding is a=b.
- thus, the resolution is
- // aa is parent of bb. make it so.
- a declarative style.
in copyright, a list of years, why not just have the latest year and omit prior years
Christian can be abbreviated Xn too. (and Xtian)
frequency, everything vs every time
linguistics. which is more frequent, everything vs every time.
- Vocabulary in A Tale Of Two Cities
- Antonymous Synonyms and Synonymous Antonyms
- Vocabulary: Words of Brutes
- Vocabulary: Animalistic Cries (Onomatopoeia)
- Vocabulary: Brutal Appellatives
- Online Dictionaries
- How to Increase Your Vocabulary
- Vocabulary: Nouns Misc Unsorted
- Nym Words: Synonym, Antonym, Hemonym, Acronym…
- Vocabulary: Words in Olympia Reader
- Vocabulary: Chantable Couplets
- Similar Words
- Vocabulary: Sexual Words
- Vocabulary From The Simpsons
- Words from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
- Vocabulary In Too Much Too Soon
- English Vocabulary; To Be Sorted
- English Vocabulary
- English Vocabulary Compilation
ALICE IN WONDERLAND, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM
- now have a light read.
- Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass
- The Alice character, is girl's obsession, and also logician's fav nonsense.
- To me, the Alice character, represents the philosophy of logical positivism, which is a philosophy that founds western society of sciences in past few hundred years, and a philosophy i abide by.
On Stealing Women
Vulcan's badge is zoomer's cuck, of 1200's cuckold, of female cuckoo bird leaving eggs in other's nest. In Chinese, it's said (the guy) Wearing Green Hat.
Vulcan is god of technology, aka nerd.
A Clash of Two Styles. Trump vs Kamala
file no exist
- file not exist
- file no exist
- file does not exist
is this grammatically correct: Literal expression match itself.
Tangy English
u see, during my insta thesis, the art of writing is sometimes sacrifised for torrent flow.
but during transmutation into blog or tweet, some copy editing r done. Bad typos r corrected, diction refined, sentences reshaped, into perfect tangy English.
The Arabian NightsSwitzerland, Finland, Sweden, Australia, Austria
- random drop into swizerland
- cuz was reading on tina tuner. she moved there, ditched usa citizenship
- dunno anything about swizland
- switzerland. weird name. germanish i think
- btw, i used to confuse switzerland with finland and sweden.
- and australia with austria.
- the last 2, r entirely diff
the world is big. and with today's tech, u can literally drop anywhere, and see its people and buildings.
ninety percent of everything is crap
What Does Taiji ☯, Bagua Mean
- https://youtu.be/xL_sMXfzzyA
- A Conversation with Bertrand Russell (1952)
- Manufacturing Intellect
- Jul 10, 2020
Emily Dickinson — massive abuse of dash
- Part torture porn, part philosophy of artificial intelligence AI.
- The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
English orthography. Is there a good reason, to spell Ukraine with the e at the end?
Slang: Grease Monkey (Megan Fox)