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I'm a big fan of armchair theology and etymology; doubly-so for the etymology of the profane (EG: What's the origin of that horrible name that taxi-cab driver just ... The Etymology of the Profane: Namely, pick your favorite swear word/phrase.
There are five books open by my bed right now, an etymology website open on my laptop, a puppy on my lap, and music playing that sounds like a ... Etymology.
Singing , correcting people's grammar , etymology and other language -related things, writing sonnets in fewer than ten minutes, sculpting really tiny ... the way light reflects off water, flying squirrels , dream interpretation, etymology , other language -related things, mythology , folklore , RPGs of
I like reading and etymology . ... , California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names , The Secret History , Damage , The
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I spend a lot of time thinking about Odd recreational philosophy. Currently I am (by which I now mean "Four years ago I was") mulling over and babbling to people about the "fuzzy buckets of truths" that everyone has a tendency to carry around and tends to use as a source of "true" or accepted premises that are never subjected to...
I spend a lot of time thinking about The desert. I visited one for the first time a few years ago, and I am utterly in love with it. Neural models and the way various systems work in the brain. And how ridiculously lucky I am that it's my _job_ to think about interesting things like these full time. The way...
The six things I could never do without - My friends - Writing . To quote Christopher Hitchens , "If you want to write, it must not be the thing that you want to do, or would like to do; it must be the thing you feel you *have* to do: It must be that, without which, you could not live." I think that describes my...
) My eventual plan is to get a PhD in English and specialize in etymology (NOT entomology, the study of buuuugs). Etymology is basically word/language history; I've researched and traced English development even back into the times when runes were still used to write.
And all the myriad things interest me, ranging from etymology to entomology , from aardvarks to zymurgy.
