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Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes

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A short run for office — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

Language

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The Never-Ending Article

Experimenting with an ever-changing essay — Preface [25062023] Today, June 25, 2023, is the 171st birthday of Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect who designed the church of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. Construction of this church began on March 19, 1882. It is still ongoing. I visited the Sagrada Familia some years ago; when I saw…

Sagrada Familia

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The Never-Ending Article
The Never-Ending Article
Sagrada Familia

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Uncluttering our minds

Hoarding can also occur in our heads — More than a century ago — in 1905, to be precise — famed physicist and future Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein published four papers in Annalen der Physik, the prestigious German scientific journal. One of the papers, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, focused on special relativity and introduced the…

Mwc Space

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Uncluttering our minds
Uncluttering our minds
Mwc Space

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The Bad Influence

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How I made four figures my first week writing on Medium

0 is a figure, after all… — I joined Medium on January 19, 2021. I remember that day like it was six weeks ago. It was a chilly Tuesday afternoon in Madrid, Spain. Traces of snow from the biggest blizzard in five decades still covered the streets. …

Writing

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How I made four figures my first week writing on Medium
How I made four figures my first week writing on Medium
Writing

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Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes

·10 hours ago

Bluffet

Sort of unsatisfying meal of assortments — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

Language

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Bluffet
Bluffet
Language

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Silly Little Dictionary!

·11 hours ago

Blast from the past!

We revisit a style of sailing… and a crane — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are B, E, L, O, T, U, and center F (all words must include F). According to the Spelling Bee Master, this is the first time that this pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared. But don’t worry. Today’s short list of dords* includes a…

Language

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Blast from the past!
Blast from the past!
Language

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Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes

·1 day ago

Aircot

Air mattresses… literally! — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

Language

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Aircot
Aircot
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Silly Little Dictionary!

·1 day ago

Blast from the past!

It’s a fateful revisit, the one we have today — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are A, C, M, O, R, T, and center I (all words must include I). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared once before: March 9, 2022 (center letter: M) And on that date, the dord* we picked to write about was moira. What…

Language

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Blast from the past!
Blast from the past!
Language

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Silly Little Dictionary!

·2 days ago

Blast from the past!

We revisit a not-so-obvious fruit and a cartoon artist — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are D, E, N, P, U, X, and center O (all words must include O). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared once before: March 5, 2022 (center letter P) And on that date, the dord* we picked to write about was pepo. What…

Language

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Blast from the past!
Blast from the past!
Language

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Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes

·2 days ago

Xoxo

That loving feeling… — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

Language

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Xoxo
Xoxo
Language

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Avi Kotzer

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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ― Albert Einstein ▹ My column: https://medium.com/silly-little-dictionary ▹ avionmedium@gmail.com

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