{"query": "Agglutination — words as beads on a string", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_da20796077e5", "title": "Agglutination — words as beads on a string", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In agglutinative languages, a word is a sentence: morphemes stack in order, each one\ncrisp and separable, exactly like bases along a DNA strand. Turkish ev (house) -> ev-ler\n(houses) -> ev-ler-im (my "}, {"id": "card_n_30396c2ab5a0", "title": "Morphology — every language has a codon table", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Words are not atoms; they are BUILT from meaning-parts (morphemes) and can be taken apart\nand reassembled — exactly the break-down/rebuild of the genetic code. A finite set of parts\ngenerates unlimite"}, {"id": "card_n_8746d9145421", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_041: So when one says, \"Moses meant as I do\"; and another, \"Nay, but as I do,\" I s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So when one says, \"Moses meant as I do\"; and another, \"Nay, but as I do,\" I suppose that I speak more reverently, \"Why not rather as both, if both be true?\" And if there be a third, or a fourth, yea i"}, {"id": "card_n_3bf9fc4ff957", "title": "Toki Pona — a whole language from 120 words", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sonja Lang's minimalist tongue (2001): 14 phonemes (9 consonants + 5 vowels), a strict\n(C)V(n) syllable shape (~100 raw slots before its bans on ti/wu/wo/ji), and about 120 core\nwords. From that near-"}, {"id": "card_n_c10463b420e6", "title": "Easton: Coal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found in Syria. Their common fuel was dried dung of animals and wood charcoal. Two different words are foun"}, {"id": "card_n_36048aaa9a1b", "title": "Glottochronology — carbon-dating the words", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Swadesh (1950s): a language's CORE vocabulary — the 100-200 most basic words (mother,\nwater, two, hand) — is replaced at a roughly constant rate, so its loss is EXPONENTIAL:\nretention r^t with r about"}, {"id": "card_n_e723019597ad", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 34:28; Deut. 10:4, marg. “ten words”) i.e., the Decalogue (q.v.), is a summary of the immutable moral law. These commandments were first given in their written form to the people of Israel when t"}, {"id": "card_n_83371763e2c1", "title": "Easton: Gad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob’s seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13; 46:16, 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, “A troop cometh: and she called,"}, {"id": "card_n_48096a61cb84", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §8: I find not that I am denied the use Of this my method, so I no abuse Put on the words, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "1. I find not that I am denied the use Of this my method, so I no abuse Put on the words, things, readers; or be rude In handling figure or similitude, In application; but, all that I may, Seek the ad"}, {"id": "card_n_61bff7847701", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §397: This done, they compassed them round on every side; some went before, some behind, and ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This done, they compassed them round on every side; some went before, some behind, and some on the right hand, some on the left, (as it were to guard them through the upper regions), continually sound"}, {"id": "card_n_61809df7d3f6", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_09_love_your_enemies: \"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate you...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. ' But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those "}, {"id": "card_n_12f1a7ad5edc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_042: Lastly, O Lord, who art God and not flesh and blood, if man did see less, cou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lastly, O Lord, who art God and not flesh and blood, if man did see less, could any thing be concealed from Thy good Spirit (who shall lead me into the land of uprightness), which Thou Thyself by thos"}, {"id": "card_n_325639a08aab", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_11_the_lord_s_prayer: \"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand an...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they "}, {"id": "card_n_3f10a1bd0ed5", "title": "Easton: Gerizim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A mountain of Samaria, about 3,000 feet above the Mediterranean. It was on the left of the valley containing the ancient town of Shechem (q.v.), on the way to Jerusalem. It stood over against Mount Eb"}, {"id": "card_n_8fc4ffc7fb8f", "title": "Revelation 22", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,\n2. in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of l"}, {"id": "card_n_60f42ea3ac66", "title": "Easton: Gath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A wine-vat, one of the five royal cities of the Philistines (Josh. 13:3) on which the ark brought calamity (1 Sam. 5:8, 9; 6:17). It was famous also as being the birthplace or residence of Goliath (1 "}, {"id": "card_n_7d3679ad4bfd", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_01_18: Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel used to say: on three things does the world stand:...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel used to say: on three things does the world stand: On justice, on truth and on peace, as it is said: “execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates” (Zechariah 8:16)"}, {"id": "card_n_f62df150062f", "title": "Easton: Worm", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. (2.) The manna bred worms (tola’im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these word"}, {"id": "card_n_5e19604c13f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_031: These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my capacity (which I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that knowest it), two sorts of disagreements I see may arise, when a thing is "}, {"id": "card_n_26fd7b06fd21", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_142: As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing. [\"So much they talked, so very little said.\" Churchill, Rosciad, 550"}]}