Published inMenagerie of Made-up Morphemes·PinnedMember-onlyHatdropA 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…Language3 min readLanguage3 min read
PinnedMember-onlyThe Never-Ending ArticleExperimenting 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 Familia10 min readSagrada Familia10 min read
PinnedMember-onlyUncluttering our mindsHoarding 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 Space4 min readMwc Space4 min read
Published inThe Bad Influence·PinnedMember-onlyHow I made four figures my first week writing on Medium0 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. …Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Published inMenagerie of Made-up Morphemes·10 hours agoMember-onlyBluffetSort 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…Language2 min readLanguage2 min read
Published inSilly Little Dictionary!·11 hours agoMember-onlyBlast 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…Language2 min readLanguage2 min read
Published inMenagerie of Made-up Morphemes·1 day agoMember-onlyAircotAir 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…Language2 min readLanguage2 min read
Published inSilly Little Dictionary!·1 day agoMember-onlyBlast 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…Language2 min readLanguage2 min read
Published inSilly Little Dictionary!·2 days agoMember-onlyBlast 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…Language2 min readLanguage2 min read
Published inMenagerie of Made-up Morphemes·2 days agoMember-onlyXoxoThat 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…Language2 min readLanguage2 min read