Adopted Words Log in or Sign up Adopted Words English Spelling Reform Humor: English to Germn … » There are many versions of this humerous step-by-step plan, to reform - and finally transform - the English spelling. The original version of this joke was apparently by Mark Twain - who once gave a speech in German famously titled "The Horrors of the German Language" and who was quite a master of the German language. A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s," and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. Daimler Benz and Chrysler Directors at Daimler Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was another possibility. As part of the negotiations, directors at Chrysler conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and have accepted a five-year phase-in plan. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c".
Hacker Typer Words Domination Punniest Store Names That Were Thought of by Absolute Geniuses. The value of a store is reflected on its name. Customers almost never walk into a store before they glance on the name. A store name, therefore, is a huge selling factor for the owner and a lot of thought and consideration should be given before naming a store. Not everyone can give a great store name and we know of stores that have horrible names. But we also know of stores that have great, sometimes genius names, such as the ones below. What makes the names below hilariously genius is the use of puns. Thank you! This will help us improve your ad experience. Report a problem This item is... Probably Overthinking It: Bayesian survival analysis for "Game of Thrones" One of the teams applied Bayesian survival analysis to the characters in A Song of Ice and Fire, the book series by George R. R. Martin. Using data from the first 5 books, they generate predictions for which characters are likely to survive and which might die in the forthcoming books. With Season 5 of the Game of Thrones television series starting on April 12, we thought this would be a good time to publish their report. The Song of Ice and Fire series has a reputation for being quite deadly. In this report, we take a closer look at the patterns of death in the novels and create a Bayesian model that predicts the probability that characters will survive the next two books. Using data from A Wiki of Ice and Fire, we created a dataset of all 916 characters that appeared in the books so far. Methodology We extrapolated the survival probabilities of the characters through the seventh book using Weibull distributions. To estimate these parameters, we start with a uniform prior. Jon Snow Class
Derek Abbott's Animal Noise Page In different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? Below is the world's biggest multilingual list. A guiding principle behind this list is to visualise a comic book, in your language, and imagine what would be written in the text balloon coming from the mouth of an animal. See also: In different languages what do we say when we tell an animal to do something? In different languages what are the most typical names we give to our pets or animals in children's story books?
Do You Suffer From Pareidolia? Are You Seeing Funny Faces Everywhere? I bet you do. Nobody is immune to this horrible brain disease. What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? List of forms of word play This is a list of techniques used in word play with Wikipedia articles. Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) ase as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic originAuto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meaningsAutogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own charactersMalapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaningNeologism: creating new words Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemesRetronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something elseOxymoron: a combination of two contradictory termsPun: deliberately mixing two similar-sounding wordsSlang: the use of informal words or expressions Techniques that involve the formation of a name
The Language Nerds Sorry! This page has moved [here] Schlecky Silberstein – Une source d'inspiration Fnord The word is often used in newsgroup and hacker culture to indicate that someone is being ironic, humorous, or surreal.[1] Often placed at the end of a statement in brackets (fnord) to make the ironic purpose clear, it is a label that may be applied to any random or surreal sentence, coercive subtext, or anything jarringly out of context (intentionally or not). It is sometimes used as a metasyntactic variable in programming.[2] It appears in the Church of the SubGenius recruitment film Arise! and has been used in the SubGenius newsgroup alt.slack.[citation needed] Origins[edit] The word was coined as a nonsensical term with religious undertones in the Discordian parody of religious texts, Principia Discordia (1965) by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill, but was popularized by The Illuminatus! In the novel trilogy (and the plays), the interjection "fnord" is given hypnotic power over the unenlightened. Ironic, humorous or surreal use[edit] Use in computing[edit] See also[edit] Culture of fear