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I remember ever since I was a teenager. I’ve enjoyed etymology finding out how words evolved. This book is about how dictionaries evolved and their cousins such as thesaurus and etymology and grammar books, etc.
I’ve found it really fascinating all the actual intrigue going on between the, many of them brilliant, people who helped define the English language. Reading this book is far from being a drudgery.

I took this book out as an e-book loan, and got about halfway through before the book disappeared from my Kindle. I have not re-requested it so I’ll probably just stay at half read for a while.

Did you know there is a feedback linkage between mother and nursing infant. Child receives milk when it sucks, but the mother’s breast also has an uptake of the child’s saliva. Mother’s body is able to determine if the neonate needs an infusion of antibodies that are then included in the mother’s breast milk.

Machado de Assist started out brilliantly then leveled off to periods of greatness with a mix of more standard fare. I am reading the Kindle version which makes referencing the footnotes, checking for the many literary and historical references used and checking definitions fun, without significantly interrupting the flow of the story. One of the few books I'd say, yes, definitely read the footnotes.

Born in 1908, Richard Wright shares a dynamic memoir, richly and poetically written, of his life in the Deep South during the Jim Crow years. I've only read to where he is ten years old but already he has had so many remarkable events take place, that I find myself fully engrossed. Black Boy was mentioned in The Dead are Arising, a biography of Malcom X. I find it an excellent companion read. I'd recommend both.

Well Malcolm X had to go through a lot of changes from his youth. he was quite the rowdy one. He apparently was one of the few people who seemed to have benefited by being incarcerated. just per chance he met someone that inspired him to understand the value and power of language and linguistics. Also, there are lots of details not contained in his autobiography.

new to me info, such as the Omaha race riots in the early 20th century. The city where Malcolm X was born. I’m learning about Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois and their competing organizations within the black community with animosity and competition. I’ve read Malcolm X’s autobiography that he did with Alex Haley. Here there is more of a historical context.
Surprised 13 yr old Malcolm so hard on his mother.

new to me info, such as the Omaha race riots in the early 20th century. The city where Malcolm X was born. I’m learning about Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois and their competing organizations within the black community with animosity and competition. I’ve read Malcolm X’s autobiography that he did with Alex Haley. Here there is more of a historical context.

I don’t read a lot of fiction but I’m enjoying this speculative journey into the future where you can buy your kid a cyber friend. From Klara’s point of view we go exploring and learning. Is artificial intelligence on track create a world of robots that we converse with and have feelings for?

new to me info, such as the Omaha race riots in the early 20th century. The city where Malcolm X was born. I’m learning about Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington and their competing organizations within the black community with animosity and competition. I’ve read Malcolm X’s autobiography that he did with Alex Haley. Here there is more of a historical context.

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Yuval sees consciousness as a small band width of the full spectrum of mental states. he compared it to the band of visible light being a small part of the broader electromagnetic spectrum. "similarly, the spectrum of possible mental states may be infinite, but science has studied only two tiny sections of it: the sub-normative and the WEIRD. = Western Educated Industrial Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies."

John Quincy Adams does not treat his wife with much respect. He doesn't involve her in decisions such as moving or whether their kids will be sent off out to relatives. He decides and she has no say. When President Madison gives John Quincy an appointment as a minister to Russia. He & his mother Abigail Adams make all the arrangements and Louisa is separated from two of her young children for the next six years.

"the Son's of Men may owe / The Fruits of Bliss to bursting Clouds of Woe"

Martha Washington's 19 year old granddaughter was about to get married. Martha decided to give her a wedding present. She would bequeath her personal slave, Ona Maria Judge as her gift.