{"id":31394,"date":"2023-09-05T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31394"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:39:50","slug":"the-soon-to-be-forgotten-new-vocabulary-of-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/05\/the-soon-to-be-forgotten-new-vocabulary-of-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soon-To-Be-Forgotten New Vocabulary of Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not claiming to be a polymath, gentle reader, as I would have to be a far better autodidact than I am.  But I sure am reading and listening widely these days, which means I have a lot of new vocabulary words getting thrown into my brain, briefly, while I&#8217;m reading\/listening\/studying.  Soon to be fall out when I start memorizing additional heavy metal lyrics on my gym playlist.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, though, I have learned the following words and could briefly say them correctly and\/or read them with fairly correct pronunciation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Kuduasai<\/em>.  I&#8217;ve started playing with Duolingo, refreshing some of my Spanish and starting, again, Japanese from scratch.  <em>Kudasai<\/em> means please in a familiar sense.<\/li>\n<li><em>Chav\u00edn de Hu\u00e1ntar<\/em>.  This is an archeological site in Peru which has information about the Chav\u00edn culture which spread through cities in Peru about 1000 BC.  I&#8217;ve had a couple of car rides\/child pickup opportunities recently, so I&#8217;ve started listening to lectures again, this set being <em>Lost Worlds of South America<\/em>.  I&#8217;ll probably finish this sometime in 2024, by which time I will have forgotten how to pronounce Chav\u00edn de Hu\u00e1ntar, but I will likely remember the feline deity and whether one can build a vampire story about them.<\/li>\n<li>As I mentioned, I&#8217;m in the process of reading <em>The Life Of Greece<\/em> by Will (and Ariel) Durant, so I am all steeped in Greek names like <em>Polycrates<\/em> and <em>Anaximenes<\/em> and <em>Anaximander<\/em> and <em>Xenophanes<\/em>, and I am pretty sure my pronunciation tracks with the Greek.  I mean, I do have a cat named Chimera, which is pronounced just like it&#8217;s spelled, ainna?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been reading some late ninteenth century and early twentieth century short stories, so I&#8217;ve been looking up lots of words like <em>demirep<\/em> and so on.  Unfortunately, I did not write down each new word as I looked it up or otherwise note it.  Or perhaps it is for the best, as I would want to use them and would become more obscure than I am.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Something is bound to stick, though, gentle reader, and that will make me even more boring to talk to at parties as I suddenly lurch from creepy and silent to enthusiastic about esoterica.  Which is also creepy, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not claiming to be a polymath, gentle reader, as I would have to be a far better autodidact than I am. But I sure am reading and listening widely these days, which means I have a lot of new vocabulary words getting thrown into my brain, briefly, while I&#8217;m reading\/listening\/studying. Soon to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31396,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31394\/revisions\/31396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}