"Lectura Secunda Seriei Dialogues with Darwin !" "The Second Lecture of the Dialogues with Darwin Series!" It was not bad! Melissa could not go with me because she wasn't feeling very good. But Myles and Sam were there! Hao was, too! So was Yasser, but he kind of disappeared on us. The lecturer this time was Dr. Higgins. He came in to speak in one of my courses before. His position in ...
"Res Lepida!" "A Nice Thing!" If you put in "Dialogues with Darwin" and "UNB" in Google, you'll get my post as the first result: http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/1836241.html How exciting!
"Argumentum ad Metaphoram" "Appeal to Metaphor" Greta Christina has a great article about this: There's a trope going around among progressive religious believers and theologians. It goes something like this: Miss smith's incredible storybook"Religious beliefs don't have to be literally true. They're just useful metaphors: stories that give shape and meaning to our lives." I've been ...
...they come from Greek and Latin. I have already criticized the strange word Eupraxsophy , coined by Paul Kurtz, who happens to be on the Editorial Board of the Skeptical Inquirer magazine: http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/844899.html The problem with the word logophobia is that, while the Greek word λόγος ( logos ) can possibly mean "thought" in the right context, the word has many...
"Nova Derivativa Verba Latina, Pars Sexagesima" "New Latin Derivatives, Part Sixty" Rules and Forms (Real and Hypothetical) of Esse The root of esse ("to be") is ES and its present stem is es- . The e of the present stem disappears when a vowel appears immediately after the stem. Thus: sum ( es- + e / o or i / u + -m ), sumus ( es- + e / o or i / u + -mus ), ...
"Nova Derivativa Verba Latina, Pars Quinquagesima Sexta" "New Latin Derivatives, Part Fifty-Six" To continue the theme from the old post http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/1482034.html , I have these: flavatus -a -um "dressed in yellow" [ flavus "yellow" + -atus "dressed in"] [ flavo- + -ato- ] stems [ flav- + -ato- ] disappears before a [ flavato- ] new stem [ flavatus ] ...
..., published cartoonist sonia_leong , was a little taken aback when she found one of her LJ friends, diaphanus , had been reposting pics she'd put up and adding some lurid commentary . ( "Perhaps Sonia ...'t think you should have so much stuff about my wife on your blog." The response from diaphanus? "I'm sorry you feel that way". Sonia is not pleased and a few other people call ...
... your blog." The reply - "I am sorry you feel that way." http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/1748540.html Now... this is completely unacceptable. Yes, well, Matt ...LJ. Hell, I have fewer Sonia posts than Gina posts! Gina Posts: http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/tag/gina Sonia Posts: http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/tag/sonia Yes, yes, you can make the argument that the Gina posts are, ...
... about Ian Andreas Miller and his distasteful behaviour towards me , I hereby provide you with some information about his various online locales. Just so you know. Livejournal: diaphanus Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Andreas-Miller/1193275073 deviantArt: http://antie.deviantart.com/ Fan history Wiki: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Ian_Andreas_Miller You can search ...
.... So I hope that you can understand my distaste when I stumbled across these posts: http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/tag/sonia I wasn't expecting these things from him. Especially since his wife ... my wife on your blog." The reply - "I am sorry you feel that way." http://diaphanus.livejournal.com/1748540.html Now... this is completely unacceptable. This has gone way beyond benefit of...
