{"query": "Glottochronology — carbon-dating the words", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_c_725caaab0d02", "title": "Vocabulary decays like carbon-14", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Exponential loss with a half-life — glottochronology is the carbon-dating of words."}, {"id": "card_n_cfb57dd6b005", "title": "Radioactive decay — the exponential clock of matter", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sealed in-domain: after one half-life exactly half remains; after two, exactly one\nquarter (2^(−2) = 1/4, exact); carbon-14's decay constant is ln2/5730 years = 3.833×10⁻¹²\nper second: https://narrowh"}, {"id": "card_n_6e7a5b14e556", "title": "The periodic table — the map of the elements", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "118 elements, ordered by proton count, and their properties RECUR in periods — the\nsingle most predictive table in science. Sealed in-domain: carbon is element 6, symbol C\n(https://narrowhighway.com/s"}, {"id": "card_n_fd479429e947", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_02_09: He [Rabban Yohanan] said unto them: go forth and observe which is the right w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He [Rabban Yohanan] said unto them: go forth and observe which is the right way to which a man should cleave? Rabbi Eliezer said, a good eye; Rabbi Joshua said, a good companion; Rabbi Yose said, a go"}, {"id": "card_c_1c3706fdd2e8", "title": "The linguistic clock is read from vocabulary", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Glottochronology and the comparative method, dating the branches."}, {"id": "card_n_770170ab1111", "title": "The linguistic clock — the comparative method dates the dispersal", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The same history is written in the words. The comparative method reconstructs ancestral\ntongues from their daughters (sealed in the language-evolution wing), and glottochronology's\nexponential vocabul"}, {"id": "card_n_752aaf678f74", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_03: “My Son, hear My words, for My words are most sweet, surpassing all the knowl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, hear My words, for My words are most sweet, surpassing all the knowledge of the philosophers and wise men of this world. My words are spirit, and they are life,(1) and are not to be weighed b"}, {"id": "card_n_024000713286", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_01: The Voice of the Disciple These are Thy words, O Christ, Eternal Truth; thoug...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple These are Thy words, O Christ, Eternal Truth; though not uttered at one time nor written together in one place of Scripture. Because therefore they are Thy words and true, I "}, {"id": "card_n_19079c10b24d", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_20_wise_and_foolish_builders: \"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will like...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on th"}, {"id": "card_n_beece41e2e3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_008: But how didst Thou speak?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou speak? In the way that the voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son? For that voice passed by and passed away, began and ended; the syllables sounded and passed a"}, {"id": "card_n_48f380838b48", "title": "The perfect numbers — six days and a month", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "6 is the first perfect number — equal to both the sum AND the product of its parts\n(1+2+3 = 1×2×3), sealed — and the days of creation's work. The second perfect number is 28\n(1+2+4+7+14), sealed — a m"}, {"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_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_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_de5c26ee42b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_040: In this diversity of the true opinions, let Truth herself produce concord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In this diversity of the true opinions, let Truth herself produce concord. And our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity. By this if man de"}, {"id": "card_n_c536440b0b63", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_01: _He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness_,(1) saith the Lord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "_He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness_,(1) saith the Lord. These are the words of Christ; and they teach us how far we must imitate His life and character, if we seek true illumination, and"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_3be68b9aae31", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_049: The delights of the ear had more firmly entangled and subdued me; but Thou di...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The delights of the ear had more firmly entangled and subdued me; but Thou didst loosen and free me. Now, in those melodies which Thy words breathe soul into, when sung with a sweet and attuned voice,"}]}