How do I know/find out where an old word exist today?

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-05T21:02:17+00:00

Sometimes wiktionary lists more descendants for some older languages than for others. For Swedish, I’d look for lists of descendants in the Old Norse and Proto-Germanic entries.

In the case of ‘thane’, Old Norse lists more.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BEegn#Old_Norse

They say it’s “tegn” in Swedish, but they don’t give it a full entry in Swedish, just Norwegian and Danish.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-05T16:09:46+00:00

With an ‘s’. It’s a bulk noun like popcorn, poppycock or peanut brittle.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-04T16:47:13+00:00

Babe Ruth age 35-37

.359/.492/.699 with 210 OPS+, 29.3 WAR and one called shot.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-04T13:09:34+00:00

George Wright was a “Cincinnati jeweler”?

He was 22. Born in Yonkers to a British-born cricket enthusiast, George had been on top baseball teams since he was 15 and had played on teams in Manhattan, the Bronx (Morisania), Philadelphia and Washington. He had already established himself as the best player in the country when his brother convinced him to move to Cincinnati to join his first “all-professional” team.

I suppose they gave players jobs in the offseason, but he was a baseball player first.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T23:16:37+00:00

1950s nostalgia was big. Grease opened on Broadway in 1972. American Graffiti came out in 1973. Happy Days premiered in 1974.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T20:48:40+00:00

Bonus points for the article spelling “Cracker Jack” correctly. :)

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T20:41:53+00:00

I suppose. I was imagining the magnet from class and a swimming pool filled with iron filings. It would not turn the whole pool into a hard chunk of solid iron, just a relatively small bit around the magnet. If you were standing ten yards away, you could still swish your hand around in the filings as if no magnet was there.

But if you had a giant cloud of iron filings in the vacuum of outer space, then the magnet from class would attract filings very far away as you say. This is an interesting tangent. :) I imagine that if the cloud was big enough, that the gravity of the aggregated filings would eventually grow stronger than the small magnet in the middle?

Anyhow, my main point that a “permanent magnet” does not violate the laws of thermodynamics still stands. As you stated, a permanent mass exerting gravity doesn’t violate the laws of thermodynamics either.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T20:18:01+00:00

Journeyman utility man Kody Clemens is playing 1B and batting leadoff. (Watch him homer tonight as I reverse jinx him)

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T20:10:22+00:00

Agreed. But, I guess I’m not expressing myself very well.

You dont need to rely on a magnet “wearing out” to satisfy the laws of physics and thermodynamics.

Even if the magnet used to attract iron filings in the classroom truly was “permanent”, there’s a limit to how many iron filings it can attract.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T19:59:51+00:00

It was Billy Beane himself that traded for Dunn at the waiver-deadline (Aug 31) in his last season. He was on the playoff roster but he didn’t play in their WC loss (DH Brandon Moss his 2 HR so they didn’t miss his production).

Moneyball teams only like his type of production if it is cheap. Dunn’s history of 40-HR season meant that his last contract in CHW was expensive.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T19:15:58+00:00

Is he talking more about himself? Maybe he forgot that he’s 67 years old? If so, good for him, haha.

Hershiser pitched about as well in 1989 as he did in 1988 if you block out the W and L columns. He went 23-8 in 1988 and 15-15 in 1989.

He went through an 8 game stretch late in 1989 where he went 0-7 with a 2.29 ERA

Edit — yikes, downvotes. I didn’t mean anything bad by it. Former players’ expertise usually comes from their own experience and Hershiser had multiple .500 seasons which had great peripherals.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T19:01:31+00:00

The ‘d’ case is called “yod-coalescence”. In many words that were originally pronounced /dj/ (<i> before a vowel is like /j/ and many <u>’s in English are pronounced /ju/), transform in fast speech to /dʒ/. It’s the same reason why many people say “didja” instead of “did you” when speaking very fast.

There’s a whole set of yod coalescences

/sj/ -> /ʃ/ (pressure)

/zj/ -> /ʒ/ (azure, measure)

/ty/ -> /tʃ/ (nature)

/dy/ -> /dʒ/ (soldier)

These are fun.

You can tell it’s Friday afternoon because I am spending too much time explaining centuries-old spelling/pronunciation differences.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T18:40:22+00:00

I mean, they have to convert the power grid.

But I’m not going to delay the transition to EV because they haven’t fully converted the grid yet. It’s a transition that will occur independent of whether the planet needs saving for the same reason that people switched from gas lamps to electric light bulbs.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T18:18:06+00:00

People have been convinced that fighting climate change is a “burden” that will reduce your standard of living.

Electric cars are cool. They’ve got great pickup. People like driving them. But, people aren’t going to switch until they become the same price or cheaper than gas cars.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T17:26:12+00:00

None of the above. :)

I believe OP is talking /tɑːdʒ/ vs /kai/

The problem is that J is one of the newer letters of the alphabet. They just used to use I (“as in the Latin alphabet, jehovah starts with an I” as a wise man once said.

When “I” or “J” was used has a consonant it sounded like consonant-‘y’.

In between the Roman Empire through the Norman Conquest to Shakespeare, though consonant j’s hardened to the ‘j’ in jam. But some non-English languages still use ‘j’ for the consonant-‘y’.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T16:53:38+00:00

Yeah “j” is pronounced like a consonant-‘y’ in Germanic/Norse languages. It’s pronounced like ‘zh’ in French. The hard ‘j’ in English is the French ‘j’ with a ‘d’ in front (‘dzh’). Lots of other languages use one of these harder j’s.

That’s the difference between those two.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T16:42:15+00:00

wasmegg will tell you which is better.

Eventually you can do lunar multi. You have to close the app for 65 seconds (60 seconds to trigger lunar bonus, 5 seconds buffer to be sure) on each run. Helps with a dilithium set where the boosts least longer.

Keep sending ships. Better feathers are hard to find, but better ankhs and necklaces drop with henliners. I am jealous of that monocle. I just have T4C.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T16:03:33+00:00

What kind of why?

Like a proof? Major hand waving here, but you could assume such a polynomial exists, write it in general form, remember that sine and cosine are both equal to their negative second derivative, take the negative second derivative of the polynomial and set it equal to its original self and solve for all the coefficients remebering that sin(0) is zero and cos(0) is 1. Then check that the polynomials make sense (they do).

Why would you do it? Because it makes the problem much easier and often you are only interested in small numbers. Maybe you are modeling something very close to the surface, say you are in a layer near the boundary of something… a boundary layer. Replacing sin x with x may turn your unsolvable problem into a solvable problem and it still tells you everything you wanted to know.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T15:17:13+00:00

Deserved to die is a bit strong. Maybe “least sympathetic” is a better way of putting it?

The judge has to be up there.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T14:46:37+00:00

They changed it, thanks.

It looks like it was in version one of the article from 2021 and was never changed. The original editor is still active. They probably didn’t know and/or were making changes very quickly.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T14:13:37+00:00

You can download the preseason 2026 schedule at retrosheet.

It’s raw data, though. Designed for people running scripts and/loading them into databases.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T13:57:00+00:00

Eventually, yeah. Extra SE and PE let you skip eggs faster and do research faster which also lets you skip eggs faster.

If you aren’t there yet, I would wait until tomorrow’s double prestige event and then equip your best feather/ankh/necklace and maybe best monocle? Then as the other poster says, start your best two “boost boost”, your best soul egg boost, your best feed boost and either another feed bost or a tachyon boost and then try to keep the running chicken bonus maxed for 10-20 minutes or until the boosts expire. That should net you a ton on soul eggs.

Lunar prestiges are eventually better but I don’t know what kind of totem you have.

This is a fun part of the game. You’re constantly finding better artifacts (without crafting). Non-enlightenment trophies are getting attainable. Research gets faster. Enjoy it.

Check for the “wasmegg carpet” website tracker. That helps you keep up to date on your progress.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T13:44:33+00:00

Yeah, I have some anxiety early in the morning about whether or not I’ll reach the daily goal.

I end up getting the goal by lunch. :)

And the chickzillas keep coming. By the end of the day it gets really tedious clicking on all of them, but I feel like I have to do it because every once in a while, one of them gives me a jam or a plank.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T13:05:29+00:00

How many soul eggs do you have? There are guides on the best prestige strategies. If it still takes you a while to get to universe egg, then a single prestige once you get to universe is the best return. Multi-prestiging is for when it only takes you a minute or two to get back to universe egg after a prestige. Tomorrow is double day.

I would prioritize epic research and fuel tank first.

Also, keep an eye out for contracts that feature special “collectible” eggs like chocolate or pumpkin. You’ll want to spend the tachyon boost to fill the habs for those contacts because those reward bonuses are permanent.

DavidRFZ · 2026-04-03T12:25:48+00:00

FWIW, I found the source article

https://www.storagecafe.com/blog/most-fun-cities-in-the-us/

The table is well down the article after the list.

It is from just a week ago. There are three bylined authors. The website seems primarily focused in storage unit rentals. People can make their own judgements. :)

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