Various Language notes on natural, synthetic and programming languages.
Welcome to the Language Portal, the goal of these pages is to host a few resources, summaries and notes from my own language studies. I've moved all notes about programming languages here, and math things here. Additional notes can be found in the notebook.
Kolik jazyků znáš,Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
tolikrát jsi člověkem.
dictionary
- Anthropomorphism: Attributing distinctly human characteristics to nonhuman processes.
- Antifragile: Some things benefit from shocks, they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, stressors, risk, and uncertainty.
- Parsimony: Refers to the quality of economy or frugality in the use of resources.
- Lateralus: The affliction of illusion of inescapable cyclicality. Example: The failure to recognize one's growth, inability to dream of unprecedented things, ceding to self-reinforcing systems, being jaded to hope, waiting for nonexistent chickens to hatch from nonexistent eggs.
- Rationality: Characteristic of thinking and acting optimally.
- Epistemology: A theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion.
linguistics
- Gematria: A cipher that assigns numerical value to a word, name, or phrase in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other.
- Palindrome: A word, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward.
- Ambigram: A word, art form or other symbolic representation whose elements retain meaning when viewed or interpreted from a different direction, perspective, or orientation.
- Leitmotif: A short, constantly recurring musical phrase associated with a particular person, place, or idea.
- Asemic: A wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means "having no specific semantic content", or "without the smallest unit of meaning".
dread
- Acedia: A state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world.
- Weltschmerz: A deep sadness about the inadequacy or imperfection of the world.
- Mono no aware: An awareness of the transience of all things that heightens the appreciation of their beauty, and evokes a gentle sadness at their passing, translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera".
- Mottainai: A sense of regret over waste, translated as "What a waste!".
- Wabi Sabi: An aesthetic, and principles, which includes asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and the appreciation of both natural objects and the forces of nature.
Did you know that before the invention of the crowbar, crows just drank at home?
Ship of thesaurus: When you rewrite a text by replacing every word with a synonym until none of the original words are left.
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