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The 12th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate just came out, and it is a MASSIVE upgrade, particularly in etymology. Also includes words from everywhere that speaks English. Also the first in history to use data analytics to learn what people look on their site most and expand on them in the print edition, instead of the other way ‘round. Uncertain about such extensive usage notes.

המציאות של לקרוא בעברית עשתה לי מכה כל כך חזק שאני צריכה לסנכרן את ההתקדמות שלי בספר זה לפי שלישים במקום חצי-חצי. 63 אחוז זה הכי קרוב לשני שלישים שאפשר באופן טבעי.

One award-winning novelist and former Marine got WAY too aroused at the idea of having a general audience read about his hyper-specific bio-implant fetish (with some offensive race things thrown in) in order to raise money for political causes and then slapping his brand on it.

Progress is slow because these Spaniards disgust me.

More done than not. I assume Seinfeld finds this funny because he’s never heard of boilerplate. As for me, despite my mainly-wry deadpan sense of humor, this is a chore.

One big problem in the book that kind of undermines all.

איזה סקסית אני להמשיך להרחיב את אוצר המילים שלי! לול, כך או כך, אי אפשר לנוח או היכולת הזו תרקב.

Easy read! Author’s read a lot, too.

Fun fact: Opposite to the Talmud, which has a Jerusalem set that is older and much less famous than the different Babylonian Talmud, the epic of Gilgamesh has an Old Babylonian version and a Standard version. Basically all translations come from the latter.

80 pages past what I remembered! Very important.

Today I came across the phrase, “I’d burn it, but then my bacon would become illiterate,” and that about sums it up.

You ever realize how meetings could have been emails? Well, this book should have been a Chabad page.

Same goals as Ministry for the Future, COMPLETE structural whiplash. Plus, what I wanted from Our Wives Under the Sea that didn’t deliver.

Updating to real percentage for book-completion race.