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Mike Tueller

@MikeTueller

I no longer post or check here. Find me at https://t.co/KEcNAMYOnP.

Phoenix, AZ 参加日 Aralık 2011
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Mike Tueller
Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@jeffreyjcohen @ltelkins My favorite -en plural is OSAXen, the plural of OSAX, the acronymic name for Applescript modules. I suppose it formed this very old way because of the difficulty of pronouncing OSAXes and the analogy to "oxen."
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Mike Tueller
Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@jeffreyjcohen @ltelkins That's a series of successive pluralizing suffixes, each added as the previous plural ceased to sound clearly plural. Some regional dialects of English now have "childrens," so the process continues.
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Mike Tueller
Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@ASU_SHPRS @azcentral A great story, and Catherine O'Donnell is a great storyteller—there's so much to be proud of here!
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SHPRS at ASU@ASU_SHPRS·
Professor of history Catherine O'Donnell spoke with @azcentral for the final episode in their Arizona HERstory series, discussing Sister Clare Dunn, the only nun to serve in the Arizona Legislature. #ASUHumanities ow.ly/jYwr50Nthce
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Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@jeffreyjcohen Finally, one day he relented and answered them. And to this day, there's an entire branch of my family that refers to butter as "schmutz."
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Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@jeffreyjcohen My great-grandfather, an immigrant from German-speaking Switzerland, only spoke English at home (even though his wife was also German-speaking). His grandkids always used to bug him by asking "What's the German word for ____?" around the dinner table.
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Mike Tueller
Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@jeffreyjcohen That's clear enough that you can see the reversal of order of the spectrum in the secondary band—something described by Aristotle (Meteorologica 3.4). The dark band in the middle was described about a century later by Alexander of Aphrodisias in his commentary on Aristotle.
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Mike Tueller
Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@LericDax @jeffreyjcohen Yes, no-one's ever theorized the universe without metaphors. And some people dispute the relevance of humanities....
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leric@LericDax·
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Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
I only wish I could take this class! (Especially now that I read your bio—it sounds so impressive when you put it all together!)
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Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@jeffreyjcohen Palladas calls her (well, Τύχη) ἄστατε δαῖμον, since she was μηδὲ τύχης τῆς σῆς ὕστατα φεισαμένη (AP 9.183) “inconstant goddess, in the end not spared even by her own fortune.” This, after her temple had been turned into a tavern.
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Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@jeffreyjcohen OK, you told me that there were doughnuts, but not that it was your birthday.... Happy birthday! 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
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Mike Tueller
Mike Tueller@MikeTueller·
@jeffreyjcohen @ltelkins @DanteMicheaux Eratosthenes did an awful lot—so much that he was derisively known as "Beta" (= "second place," essentially the same as our "jack of all trades, master of none"). He was the first to solve for doubling the cube, as we know from a POEM he wrote describing the technique.
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