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I am now capable of seeing the dress as blue and black.
Just tried to get into the subway with my house keys if you’re wondering where I’m at
A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National Park in Texas
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The rule of law doesn’t break down overnight, and checks and balances don’t collapse in an instant.
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Non-political meditations on indict
My boyfriend and I have been talking about the word indict. It started with a conversation about whether or not someone who’s been charged with crimes should be allowed to run for the highest office in the US (another conversation for another time). He’s an ESL speaker and pronounced the word with a hard c which sent us down a (relatively short) rabbit hole of why this word is pronounced the way it is.
The modern word indict comes from Latin in (towards) + dicere (pronounce; utter). The two words then became one, indicere. It evolved with Anglo-Norman French into enditer (major changes include i to e and c to t). It then further evolved with Middle English into two spellings endite or indite. I imagine these versions would have the same pronunciation as we now use for indict.
What I find curious is that, passing through Anglo-Norman French and Middle English, the current form of the word gained a new pronunciation but at some moment reclaimed the Latin c. At what point did this happen? My hypothesis is that at some moment when building a formal legal language, the decision makers (!) decided to go back to the word’s roots and acknowledge it’s Latin origin all the while keeping the it’s commonly recognized, evolved pronunciation.
Virtually all ESL speakers I meet remark on English’s lack of apparent sense or rules when it comes to the relationship between spelling and pronunciation. I like to answer that there are rules, sense, and reason, just that one has to unravel them by following the etymological thread. I find this bit fun. To me, it’s fascinating thinking of the history of immigration, sharing of knowledge and culture over millennia that have led to our methods of communication, something so easily taken for granted.
Next question: Why does millennia have two l’s and two n’s?!
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Herbert Marcuse obituary, New York Times, July 31, 1979
"Speaking of the affluent working people in America, Dr. Marcuse said: 'Adopting middle‐class values, they have found their soul in high wages and hi‐fi sets, split‐level homes, the backyard barbecue and the second car. They are disinclined to risk their relative prosperity for abstract and utopian ideas.'"
Sanctuaries of Silence is an immersive listening journey into Olympic National Park, one of the quietest places in North America. A virtual reality film by Emergence Magazine staff filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.
Fiction by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Inspired by “Coronavirus Quarantine Is Hell for People With Anxiety Disorders: ‘I Couldn't Stop Clicking On Everything’” from Vice News, March 20, 2020.