Autological words are words that express a property that they themselves possess. For example, noun is a noun, and English is English.
The opposite of an autological word is a heterological word, meaning one that doesn’t apply to itself. For example, the word long isn’t a long word itself, and monosyllabic has more than one syllable. Are the following words autological?
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Facta sunt facta. Facts are facts, or are they?
It occurs when the vowel sound in the second syllable is slightly altered. Here are some examples: chitchat; ding-dong; flipflop; hip-hop; knickknack; Ping-Pong; singsong; tick-tock; and zigzag.
Marcus Cicero 106 - 43 BC, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer, and Academic skeptic, wrote the six books of De re publica along with several other documents between 54 and 51 BC. The "Somnium Scipionis" (Dream of Scipio), is a vision of the afterlife recounted by the character Scipio Aemilianus. Anthony Trollope 1815 - 1882 was an English civil servant, translator, and novelist. De re publica fragment
4th or 5th century palimpsest
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A participle is a nonfinite verb form that has some characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives. It comes from the Latin participium, which means sharing or partaking.
adjective “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” perfect tense “In vain I have struggled.” “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” passive voice “I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.” -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Is it a showstopper or a disgrace for a sitting United States Supreme Court Justice to appear on the New York Stage? Jackson appeared in a one-night-only walk-on role in a musical entitled, & Juliet, a modernist, feminist take on Shakespeare's tragedy that imagines what would have happened if the female protagonist survived and took control of her own life. While the central love story is not explicitly gay, the musical has a strong queer element, particularly through the character "May", a non-binary character who is involved in a love triangle, which prominently features a storyline exploring queer identity and representation. 1) Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. 2) Rewrites and remakes are unoriginal. 3) The religious content has been removed. 4) Catholic Shakespeare would not sign off. 5) Participation by a justice is undignified. thumbnail courtesy of USA Today
Title: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare Author: G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936 Birthplace: Campden Hill, London Genre: metaphysical thriller Published: 1908 (age 34) Religion: baptized at 48 left: Chesterton at 17
right: Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, Chesterton In testimony before the US Senate this month, a certain professor, Benjamin Keys, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, claimed that because I and others might vote in a conservative way that, when we do, we experience "frisson of the illicit".
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That sounds full of wonder, but the insinuation is that we are criminally ill. I guess it means that every time someone pulls the trigger, he or she is...ill...um, such as, um...gun owners? Raymond Chandler, American-British author and screenwriter, published The Little Sister in 1949, first in the UK and then the US. This is an animated version. Chandler used Bay City as a pseudonym for Santa Monica in his hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He portrayed Bay City as a corrupt town. In this story the criminal syndicate is present. Van Nuys Hotel is fictional.
Characters Philip Marlowe Orfamay Quest, sister Dolores Gonzales, minor actress Mavis Weld, rising actress (related) Orrin Quest, brother allusion How Do I Love Thee Allison edited the first fantasy story Alexander and I wrote for YT. The story is AI narrated and a 40-min listen. She is elected Committee Coordinator (2025-2026) for the Catholic Writers Guild (CWG). Congratulations.
Welcome... to the madhouse of new pronouns. dea/death/deaths/deaths/deathself cases: subject dea; object death; r deaths; pronoun deaths; reflexive deathself Examples
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R-pronouns indicate location or there in a sentence, and the pronouns often include the letter r in their spelling, hence the name r. Another example is here. Please thank me for seeing a time-delaying mirage. Progressive time delay is where a teacher gradually increases the time between the prompt and the instruction as the student becomes more proficient. I guess you need a stopwatch for that. Rarely do I post book reviews, but here is one that is pretty good for fans of Arthur Conan Doyle and Stevenson. The paranormal-spiritualism of Doyle is something not to be embraced, at all. There are poems and short stories from both authors in my Reading List, so check out those. Doyle 1859-1930 was also a physician.
I haven't read a novel since writing fiction began, with one exception. A student needed emergency help writing an essay on a novel and memoir, neither of which I had read, and reading 450 pages in a day while taking notes wasn't fun. Opinion: The best Shakespeare history plays are Julius Caesar and Henry V. I read them at 14-15, Henry V under the Christmas tree. Bill sent me the link.
Recorded for LibriVox by Phil Chenevert "3 Weird Science Fiction Stories by Fritz Leiber"
https://librivox.org/3-sf-stories-by-fritz-leiber-by-fritz-leiber/ prevenient, preveniénte lines 7-8: origin Latin, adjective, formal, preceding in time or order, antecedent 12/8/2024 Roman Missal 1962 Mass of the Immaculate Conception of the BVM The priest says the Secret in a low voice. It is near the end of the Offertory, is part of the Proper, which changes for each occasion or feast, and is characterized by (1) asking God to receive and sanctify the gifts, the bread and wine, and (2) alluding to the saint or occasion of the day. Sonnet XLIII (43)
How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Main character: Francis Villon (poet) Others: Montigny; Thevenin Pensete; Tabary; Dom Nicholas; old knight Graphic: Jordan Harvey Narrator: Arthur Lane Editor: Martin Gold
The parable of the ten virgins/talents is a description of the Last Judgment.
https://www.drbo.org/chapter/47025.htm It is there that you will find the online Douay-Rheims (A.D. 1572/1609), the Latin Vulgate Bible translated into English, making it the first English Bible, Summa (Aquinas), and Baltimore Catechism 3. The 1962 Latin Missal incorporates the Douay-Rheims, all that is needed aside from the classics. My reading list has classic science fiction short stories.
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFFWA) was established in 1965 by Damon Knight, author of "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for The Twilight Zone (1960s TV anthology), so the group got off to a good start. Jonathan Del Arroz says that he is the leading Hispanic voice in science fiction. He says that he tackles the hard topics in culture and loves to share his love of comic books/graphic novels. Following is an interview. https://www.enclavepublishing.com/interview-jon-del-arroz-2/ Independent authors must do their own promotion in these times. Alexander and I published our fantasy on YT in early October. King Pyrrhus of Epirus said, "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined." A pyrrhic victory is one that comes at such a heavy cost that it's tantamount to a defeat.
Even though every battle was won, Americans were persuaded that losses in the Vietnam War, 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties, were too great. Russia has sustained more than 600,000 casualties during the war in Ukraine, a sign of losses accelerating out of proportion with its gains. Afghanistan was different. The exit was disastrous, with $923 million worth of aircraft left behind. (Orange Dog of Foo) by Raymond Chandler characters
Private Dick Philip Marlowe, Shelly Martin, Lou Horner, Lt. Ibarra, James Tang, Mr. Saxon, Long Hair locations Los Feliz (south of Griffith Park and near Hollywood), Wilshire Garden Hotel in Beverly Hills, and Chinatown time of day night I frequently use AI, checking it against my knowledge and other sources. Vigano is 83. The probability from zero to one that Francis, 87, knows how to use AI is close to zero. Ha-ha, John-Henry let YouTube's auto-translate generate captions for his video: "Right" is "rite". Before posting the fantasy Alexander and I wrote, YT asked me if I wanted captions. Nope. The blind can listen.
Example of doxa by AI Overview: Doxa is an ancient Greek word that means "opinion, reputation, what is said of things or people". It can also refer to a common belief or popular opinion. In classical rhetoric, doxa is often contrasted with episteme, which means "knowledge". Here are some other definitions of doxa:
All I had to do was italicize the Greek word "doxa" once. APA Style: Italics are required for non-English words, phrases, and abbreviations if they might be unfamiliar to readers, but only on the first use. If the same word, phrase, or abbreviation is used later in the same document, it should be written without italics. My knowledge: Foreign words are not italicized if they have entered the English language and are commonly used and understood. An example is "amigo". Occasionally, I alter style in my blog to make it more appealing visually. The amount of time spent writing this answer was 10 minutes. YouTube AI helps one video connect to a related video. I'm not really that smart. “...But it’s striking that Shakespeare uses Catholic content rather differently from his contemporary dramatists, often embracing the contradictory connotations of, say, a friar [Romeo and Juliet], exploiting the figure’s nostalgic and threatening associations at the same time. This exploration of ambiguity seems to have been one way in which he thought through not only religious controversies, but also the very act of making fiction itself....” By Gillian Woods, January 23, 2016 https://blog.oup.com/2016/01/what-was-shakespeares-religion/#:~:text=Like%20other%20English%20subjects%20who,least%2C%20he%20was%20a%20Protestant. As a middle child, I can live with ambiguity, but I learned as much or more from reading the stoics as reading Shakespeare, requiring too many annotations. The Douay-Rheims (Shakespeare time) has fewer annotations than other Bibles, and the 1962 Missal has virtually none. Stoics confirmed my suspicions:
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. If I'm right, I think Mark was thinking of affection.
on one side of my deathbed on the other side at the foot the Man of the Cross staring
Alexander decided that our next fantasy will be on the 5th Commandment, Thou shalt not kill. What is a killing? Wilful murder. There are many circumstances when erasing an adult is justified.
Most adults don't believe a thing I say. How so? Perception is clouded, and the cross is rejected. Children have not reached that stage. Alexander's mind is unclouded, and he knows my loyalty. |
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