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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2025-01-27 at 23:29

A lesson from history, for those who are not already familiar:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot#Eliza

Invented in 1966, ELIZA was still cool in the 1970s, but by the 1980s had become an amusement. ELIZA talking to PARRY was doubly amusing. The Bell Labs “insult server” phoning the VP for Research, via the Bell Labs text-to-speech system was triply amusing but is, alas, subject to an NDA. And might be just apocryphal.

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2025-01-26 at 20:35

An hour or two of fine weather after the rain this afternoon enabled a walk through the village. Saw snowdrops, a few crocuses and a somewhat bedraggled lesser celandine, putting in a brave effort!

[#]WildflowerHour #BloomScrolling

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2025-01-25 at 22:46

Plus a drop of that Scottish whiskey goes down pretty well too.

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2025-01-25 at 22:45

Enjoying a lovely Burns Night. We aren't Scottish, but my Aunt and many friends are, and we appreciate poetry and #Scots. Most importantly, we had a veggy haggis in the freezer that needed an occasion to be ate, so ...

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2025-01-19 at 15:40

Crappy zoomed-in phone shot of the Snow Bunting on Hamworthy beach this afternoon, but

[#]RSPB #birds

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2025-01-09 at 15:47

For those who like #runic and #OldEnglish / #AngloSaxon

When I was a student, our Professor (who taught us Anglo-Saxon) organised an annual summer trip to St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, N. Yorkshire, where there is an old sundial carved over the door. The Anglian inscription retains a number of runic letters: ᚹᚨᛇᚦ

I came across an old postcard of it and give here a new transcription too. There are a couple of small errors in the postcard, corrected in AltText

[#]linguistics #englishlanguage

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2025-01-07 at 20:05

A solitary Lesser Celandine, coming into flower as early as the snowdrops. Purbeck, Dorset coast

[#]wildflowers

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-12-29 at 20:18

Garlic mustard was the biggest surprise today, as were these black fungi (“Dead men's fingers”?)

[#]WildflowerHour #fungus

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-12-29 at 20:14

... the ninth species (pictured) is I think Green alkanet, but I'd be grateful for any ID help

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[#]WildflowerHour #WildflowerID

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-12-29 at 20:11

Met up with some old friends for a Sunday afternoon walk near Speen, Berkshire, so made it my #NewYearPlantHunt. Spotted 9 species in flower: Wild carrot, Nipplewort (pictured), Garlic mustard, Wood avens, Thale cress, Snowdrop (probably garden escape), Periwinkle (ditto), White dead-nettle, and ...

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[#]WildflowerHour

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-12-24 at 20:11

Christmas Eve by the bay. Lovely afternoon sunlight.

[#]Swanage #Dorset

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-12-22 at 21:12

Possibly Red Campion at RSPB Arne this week. But wrong time of year to be flowering. Puzzling.

[#]WildflowerHour #WildflowerID

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-12-01 at 20:25

Viburnum (this one not a UK native species, I think -- not Guelder rose, wrong leaves) vs. Yarrow, beside the road on a rather dull, mizzy afternoon

[#]WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-11-22 at 14:15

Has #whamageddon started yet? cos if so I just got whammed in a café and it's not even December yet 😬

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-11-10 at 20:18

The most triumphal bloom of the day at @RSPB Arne today was this mighty Great Mullein. Absolutely magnificent!

[#]WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-11-10 at 20:14

Gorse flowering a lot (when isn't it?) at @RSPB Arne this afternoon

[#]WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-11-10 at 20:11

The overcast skies finally lifted and the sun broke through in patches. Still blooming at @RSPB Arne: Bell Heather (just a few flowers, the rest mostly dried up)

[#]WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-11-06 at 15:15

Audio Etymologies of the Day

As posted before, “one” comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ói-nos [oinos], like this:

🔊 https://ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/one-from-PIE-h1oinos.wav

The variant form *h₁ói-wos "one" developed into Ossetian иу [ju]:

🔈https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1oiwos-to-Ossetian-yu.wav

Pashto یو yau:

🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1oiwos-to-Pashto-yau.wav

and Ancient Greek οἶος hoios “only”:

🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1oiwos-to-AncientGreek-hoios.wav

@linguistics #linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage #acousticphonetics #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Ossetian #Pashto #AncientGreek

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-11-05 at 15:40

Audio Etymologies of the Day

"Eat" comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éd-, perhaps like this (listen):

🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/eat-from-PIE-h1ed.wav

The same root developed into Armenian ուտել utel:

🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1ed-to-Armenian-utel.wav

Sanskrit अत्ति atti:

🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1ed-to-Sanskrit-atti.wav

Bosnian jedem, and cognates:

🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1ed-to-BCMS-jedem.wav

and Ancient Greek ἔδω edo:

🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1ed-to-AncientGreek-edo.wav

@linguistics #audio #etymology #phonetics #EnglishLanguage #ProtoIndoEuropean #Armenian #Sanskrit #Bosnian #Greek

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Written by 𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉 on 2024-11-04 at 08:29

I missed #WildflowerHour yesterday, because reasons. This week I came across some late-flowering Wild Strawberries in Oxfordshire

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