{"query": "Phonics — the code beneath reading", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bf1b1d4a5b77", "title": "Phonics — the code beneath reading", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "English is a cipher with a catch: 26 letters carry ~44 phonemes (24 consonant + 20 vowel\nsounds, sealed 24+20=44) spelled ~250 ways, ~4.7 bits per letter (log2 26). The whole difficulty\nis the vowels "}, {"id": "card_c_8503025e7797", "title": "Phonics decodes sound; morphology decodes meaning", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Reading is both: the sound layer (phonics) and the meaning-part layer (morphology)."}, {"id": "card_n_e58898b8fc38", "title": "The genetic code — a language written in a molecule", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Life stores itself as text: a four-letter alphabet (A, C, G, T), three-letter words, and a\nredundant dictionary. Sealed: 4^3 = 64 codons, 64 - 3 stop = 61 sense codons mapping to just 20\namino acids —"}, {"id": "card_c_8d44dab76587", "title": "Base pairing instantiates the genetic code", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The physical carrier of the code."}, {"id": "card_c_7ed61ab390bb", "title": "The genome-as-information instantiates the genetic code", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The information view of the code."}, {"id": "card_n_bc8d104f3593", "title": "Language as a tree — the method biology and linguistics share", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Darwin himself drew the parallel: languages branch like species. And the SAME mathematics\ncounts both — for n languages OR n genes, the number of possible rooted binary trees is the\ndouble factorial ("}, {"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. 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'For thou art born a mere slave, to thy senses and brutish affections;' destitute with"}, {"id": "card_n_055f3f978210", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_020: But why did I so much hate the Greek, which I studied as a boy?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why did I so much hate the Greek, which I studied as a boy? I do not yet fully know. For the Latin I loved; not what my first masters, but what the so-called grammarians taught me. For those first"}, {"id": "card_n_36c587b6f62f", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_05: It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written. We must rather seek for what is profitable in Scripture, th"}, {"id": "card_n_cee94141b069", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_018: Other waters there be above this firmament, I believe immortal, and separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Other waters there be above this firmament, I believe immortal, and separated from earthly corruption. Let them praise Thy Name, let them praise Thee, the supercelestial people, Thine angels, who have"}, {"id": "card_c_51fb9fc441d5", "title": "The triconsonantal root instantiates morphology", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Semitic triplet code."}, {"id": "card_n_4e73e56c082e", "title": "Easton: Memphis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only in Hos. 9:6, Hebrew Moph. In Isa. 19:13; Jer. 2:16; 46:14, 19; Ezek. 30:13, 16, it is mentioned under the name Noph. It was the capital of Lower, i.e., of Northern Egypt. 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God spoke all these words, saying,\n2. “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.\n3. “You shall have no other gods before me.\n4. “You shall not m"}, {"id": "card_c_e4c0cb3d2e22", "title": "Chemistry is the substrate of the genetic code", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Base pairing, the double helix, and translation are chemistry that copies itself."}, {"id": "card_c_ff554ae26b2b", "title": "The alphabet is a code, like the genome", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "26 letters spelling everything — a minimal alphabet richly combined, sealed 4^3=64 beside it."}]}