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The SOB that stole your bike...never brought to justice I guess?...Isn't that like when a black cat crosses your path. Maybe something good is coming your way.
Which reminds me of my (third, I think) Apollo mountain bike. Having parked it in the bike shed at work, at the end of the day I was getting ready to leave when I noticed the tyres were flat and the chain was rusted. I was puzzled by this and thought someone had been messing with me. It turned out my bike was sitting right next to this identical though much older Apollo.
That weekend I had my bike stolen. So that on the Monday evening I dragged the old bike back home, bought a new chain and puncture repair kit, and was soon cycling an Apollo to work again.
Trivial I know, but it's a funny old world sometimes.
The dot over a lowercase “i” or “j” is called a tittle.
Boy do I know petrichor... in the desert that smell is magnified.Another one is bananas are technically berries, but strawberries aren’t.
And, I learned this one a while ago, but just wow... the word for the smell of rain after a dry spell: petrichor
Do you study Hebrew? It's a heckuva language to learn. I did so years ago, but never got fluent, but I did gather a boatload of dictionaries and Hebrew lexicons and biblical studies. It's fascinating to look deeply into.....There's a little more to it... The word "tittle" is used in the expression "every jot and tittle" which has been around a very long time.
How long?
The "backstory" is biblical (as so many backstories are..."Nihil sub sole novum" 😉)
What follows is [partly] from a website on the written Hebrew language...
In Matthew 5:18, Jesus emphasizes the eternal nature of God’s Word: “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (KJV).
His statement naturally prompts the question of what’s a jot? And what’s a tittle?
Jots and tittles have to do with letters and pen strokes in Hebrew writing.
A jot is the tenth letter in the Hebrew alphabet and the smallest. It was written above the line and looks to us rather like an apostrophe:
Jot is related to our modern English word iota, meaning “a very small amount.” The Hebrew spelling is yod or yodh.
A tittle is even smaller than a jot. A tittle is a letter extension, a pen stroke that can differentiate one Hebrew letter from another. An example can be seen in the comparison between the Hebrew letters resh and daleth (or dalet):
The resh (on the left) is made with one smooth stroke. The daleth (on the right) is made with two strokes of the pen. The letters are very similar to each other, but the distinguishing mark of the daleth is the small extension of the roof of the letter:
That extension is a tittle.
It's used idiomatically to mean "every single detail," every bit of minutiae.
We might say: "I want these instructions followed to the last jot and tittle."
Boy do I know petrichor... in the desert that smell is magnified.
Had to look it up... I asked AI if the post-rain smell in the desert was only petrichor, petrichor and something else, or just something else.
Here's the AI answer (but I have read it elsewhere on non AI sites):
Yes, it's petrichor but it's a very specific, potent version made famous by the creosote bush, mixed with the earthy scent of geosmin from soil bacteria, creating that distinct fragrance. So, it's both—petrichor is the general term, but the desert's unique mix of plant oils and soil microbes makes it special.
HAHA....no...you give me too much credit.Do you study Hebrew? It's a heckuva language to learn. I did so years ago, but never got fluent, but I did gather a boatload of dictionaries and Hebrew lexicons and biblical studies. It's fascinating to look deeply into.....
And when you build a clock, I shall tell time by it mellon nin.....HAHA....no...you give me too much credit.
But I did know that "jot and tittle" appeared in the Bible in one of the gospels (and in the context of the quotation I cited) so I thought I would elaborate on your post, specifically about the origins of "tittle".
You're new here.
I've only been here a llttle more than three years, but the members who interact on this [trivia] forum know that [metaphorically speaking,] "if you ask me what time it is, I will build you a clock."
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I didn't know that.If you put (no subject) as the subject of an email, when sent the email will look exactly the same as it would if you hadn't entered a subject.
I'm not sure if this is some ground-breaking discovery I've made, or if everybody but me already knew this.
Yes, it does have to be in parentheses. It doesn't need to be bold, though.I didn't know that.
Does no subject have to be in parentheses?
Good to know this, all of it. Thank you 🙂Yes, it does have to be in parentheses. It doesn't need to be bold, though.
"Orange" you glad you learned all that? 😁Facts about Oranges:
- In their naturally occurring climate, oranges aren't orange, they're green. It's only cooler climates that cause the chlorophyll in the skin to break down and reveal the orange colour.
- Oranges are a cross between a mandarin and a pomelo.
- The word orange is derived from the Sanskrit word naranga which means ''orange tree'' and is believed to have roots in a Dravidian language (likely Tamil or Malayalam) meaning "fragrant" or "fragrant fruit" (naru).
- So the oranges aren't orange, and orange isn't orange.
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