📖 Word Origins

word origin stories, etymology facts, eponym history, idiom origins, phrase historical context, curious linguistic facts, untranslatable concept words, niche foreign terms, lexical gaps

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? (2017)
pudding.cool·1h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🧩Music Cognition
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Quick Hits
acecomments.mu.nu·1d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Rebel alliance: Using AI to track early modern poetry networks
siliconrepublic.com·16h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Reminiscences, Memories, Memoirs: How to Capture Them?
techenhancedlife.substack.com·1d·
Discuss: Substack
🔬Curious Science
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Grokipedia: The AI-Powered Encyclopedia That’s Challenging Wikipedia
pub.towardsai.net·6h
🏺Deep History
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Chaldean Loanwords
en.wikipedia.org·3d·
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📜Histories of Spiritual Belief
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Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language
popsci.com·1d
🔬Curious Science
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13 Things People Say When They’re Emotionally Checked Out
yahoo.com·1d
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Polish emerges as top language in multilingual AI benchmark testing
ppc.land·2d
🔬Curious Science
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I Built an AI to Roast My Own About Page. It Was Brutal (and Right)
startastory.app·1d·
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🚀Technology
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Sacrificing the Present for an Anticipated Memory
scantron.substack.com·10h·
Discuss: Substack
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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INSPIRATION for ANYONE currently (or formerly) learning a foreign language! Polyglots, bilingual, monolingual, hyperpolyglots, et al.
youtu.be·2d·
Discuss: r/u_tpmaxwell2
🔬Curious Science
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Social and UGC: The trust engines powering search everywhere
searchengineland.com·9h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Large language models still struggle to tell fact from opinion, analysis finds
techxplore.com·8h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Breaking Point
granta.com·8h
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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Dictionary.com risks Gen Z mockery by crowning ‘6-7’ as word of the year
fortune.com·10h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Turn boring negatives into flavorful sentences with one little word: 还不/ 还没
i.redd.it·11h·
Discuss: r/ChineseLanguage
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Lock In | Weeknotes
thejaymo.net·1d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Understanding Tokenization in Large Language Models
pub.towardsai.net·23h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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TIL that people are more likely to believe statements that rhyme, allowing for foolish advice to sound a bit wiser and it’s been called the rhyme as reason effe...
en.wikipedia.org·3d·
Discuss: r/todayilearned
🧩Music Cognition
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