It's easier for me to learn when there are connections that make sense. I am wondering if there is a website that is organized by roots and additions. So, take a root like "setzen". It would go through "uebersetzen, hinwegsetzen, ersetzen, einsetzend", etc, explaining the signicance of the preposition, and the logic of/idea behind combining it with the root. Does such a resource exit?
Danke sehr!
Most of my worldbuilding is done in a contemporary, american setting, and I find myself repeating the same types of town names; Silver falls and Myers Falls, Nashtons Fork and Copper Fork, etc. Has anyone made or found a list of town names in that kind of naming pattern? Or a list of geographical features I guess?
I've tried name generators and researching real town names but I find that I can't quite find what I'm looking for.
I'm trying to understand how words become words.
For example, Chrysalis. It came from the word "Khrusos" meaning gold, then turned into "Khrusallis". I looked up the root word "llis" and I think it said means something along the lines of "capability".
Can anyone explain how this happened? I would appreciate it.
could be an ankidroid flashcards, or a chapter from books, or dictionary.
i feel like if i can learn to look at words, isolate parts of the words, and make out the meaning of the whole word from parts, learning new words is gonna much easier, instead of just memorizing the whole words. i also feel like this is possible for much of the deutsch vocabulary.
thanks.
website for breaking down prefix, root, suffix of a medical term?
Undisableable: not capable of being disabled
It has no root word and yet its meaning is perfectly understandable.
I was going to mess around with a rare identification tool (yes i know it exists kinda with trade macro, but i want data i can manipulate.
Is http://www.pathofexile.com/item-data/prefixmod and http://www.pathofexile.com/item-data/suffixmod updated. or is there a better resource where i can find all this data? The data they have supplied is in perfect format for an id tool.
Hello I am currently starting to self study and I noticed a huge amount of suffixes and prefixes. Should I make flash cards for those as well? Off topic but in my book has not started covering the drugs yet but should I start trying to learn a couple new drugs a day?
Hi, one way I expanded my English vocabulary growing up was through learning the roots of words and what parts of words meant so as to be able to learn through context a lot easier. It also made learning words fun, like playing with Legos.
I've been dabbling in German off and on for the past couple years and can follow along pretty well in reading and listening. I'm working on some of my other areas, but for this post I was wondering if anyone knew of any good resources for ingraining some of the significant themes used in German words. Right now I go to Wiktionary and look up an aspect of a word that stands out to me, but I was just wondering if anyone knew of anywhere that focused on that aspect of the language.
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I'm looking for a website/app/something where you can type in a word and get prefixes/suffixes related to it. (Example: Mind > cognito-, psych-/psycho-, etc.) Does something like this exist?
From the fun book "Etymologicon" by Mark Forsyth:
> If a gem frequently sparks, we say that it sparkles. If a burning log frequently emits cracking noises, then it crackles. That’s because –le is a frequentative suffix. With this in mind, let’s turn to grunting. To gruntle is to grunt often. If a pig makes one noise it has grunted, if it grunts again you may add the frequentative suffix and call the pig a gruntler. A medieval travel writer called Sir John Mandeville described the men who live in the desert near the Garden of Eden thus: In that desert are many wild men, that are hideous to look on; for they are horned, and they speak not, but gruntle, as swines do. But the dis- in disgruntled is not a negative prefix but an intensive one. If the verb already carries negative connotations (and something that makes you keep grunting is probably no good), then the negative dis just emphasises how bad it is. Disgruntled therefore means almost the same thing as gruntled.
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Have you ever walked through a hallway where everyone knew that you didn’t belong?
Imagine experiencing that in your own place of work.
I kept my head down and my ears up as I traveled through the central corridor of the children’s burn unit of St. Francis Hospital.
This hospital doesn’t have a children’s burn unit.
Even though I passed by a sign that proudly claimed it had been donated by the “Friends of Crespwell Academy for Superb Children.”
Nope. This place didn’t exist. I’d been working at St. Francis since July, and I knew every square inch of it.
Maybe there was a wing that I had missed, right?
But after advancing in a straight line for several minutes, I knew that was nonsense. I didn’t go around any corners or encounter any walls. I certainly would have noticed a half-mile hallway if it were real.
The people were… off as well. There was a heavyset nurse with frizzy hair who stared with distrust as I passed. I encountered her three different times along the same corridor, despite the fact that she could not possibly have moved ahead of me.
Another nurse, frail and nervous-looking, tried to hand me a bag of blood. When I refused, she threw it angrily on the ground, where it splattered.
I kept walking without looking back. My list of rules had been very clear about the fact that I was to continue in a straight line for 47 minutes if I found myself in this impossible place.
I glanced down at my watch. It was 3:09 a. m., six minutes since I’d arrived in this impossible corner of hell.
The employees became more insistent as I walked on.
“Doctor!” a resident yelled at me as he jumped out of a room, “the patient is coding! We need you, stat!”
I carefully avoided eye contact as I moved past him.
“DOCTOR!” he screamed, “You’re killing her!”
I wiped away a tear as I continued forward, ignoring the unholy scream that came from the room. I’d heard enough patients to know what a death wail sounds like, but I had no choice.
A minute later, I came across a pool of standing blood. It reached across to both walls of the hallway, and stretched twenty feet in front of me. As I watched, I could see it growing. A surly-looking man in a janitor’s uniform stood by, arms crossed, staring at me.
I didn’t think he was actually a janitor.
Without slowing down, I plodded through the blood. Squish, squish, squish.
Damn. These were my favorite pair of Crocs.
I entered a clear patch of hallway and checked my wat
... keep reading on reddit ➡using CLI i can leave off the --recursive option and aws s3 ls s3://mybucket/part/of/a/prefix/ will list the next level of prefixes in much the same way as a listing of a file system folder lists subfolders. what API call does this on S3?
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Sorry if this is a little long, I am trying to include as much relevant info as I can.
So I am in Queensland, Australia and work in a customer service call centre if that has any relevance.
I have been working with the same employer for almost 2 years now and have always been open about my struggles with mental illness - since I was first hired.
It has never been an issue before and they have always just been happy that I have kept them updated generally and it has made taking time off for appointments easier as I haven’t had to come up with an excuse.
About a month and a half ago I was put on Valium as part of a type of therapy I am trying, and told my boss just so they were aware if there was a noticeable change in my statistics (absolutely everything we do is monitored and tracked very closely)
Last week I finally got an official ADHD diagnosis from my psychiatrist and was put on Dexedrine. Now because I know that this shows up in standard drug tests as amphetamine, I again let them know.
I have now been asked to get medical certificates from both my GP and Psychiatrist detailing my conditions (depression, anxiety, ADHD), all of my current medications, and whether I am “safe” to be driving and at work while taking them.
A coworker who has similar mental illnesses but hasn’t been as transparent in disclosing them has also now been asked for the same thing. She has recently had some major issues with her physical health and has been told by the Dr she needs to take things easy for the next few weeks at least so is going to be working from home.
My question would be what information am I obligated to provide to my employer.
It seems very odd to me that they only need this information now, and that it’s not just me they are asking for the information from.
Is this a sign we should have a base 12 numerical system
Is it Biblical English? If so, why? Did they speak like that in biblical times?
examples:
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Had I known thy arrival would be so swift, I'd have preparest some tea. Whither art mine manners?
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First thou offendeth the Godmother, and now thou see fit to trample upon the tomb of the Great Lord. Let the atonement for thy felonies commenceth!
Are these even proper English? I understand what they mean. I got used to them through the media I consume.
