Alice Maz

classical latin: let's see... first person singular accusative relative pronoun... second person singular subjunctive... medieval latin: ut ut ut ut ut ut

definitely the silliest word I have learned in recent memory is "pseudoarboricity"

[one week later] me: honey you were right sig: you ran into graph theory me: [leans back in chair dejected displaying webpage on the minimum feedback arc set problem]

me: [describing sql thing I want to do] sig: good luck you're going to run into graph theory doing this me: nah it's not actually that complicated

I assume it isn't enough to live off or anything but it's kinda cool that's a thing people can do now

this is all to ensure a complex self-referential data structure will get gced properly fwiw

and filling wine glasses with said options. I theorized maybe soda is the suburban version of table beer, replacing unsafe local tap water

update: at my brother's wedding in a strip mall waiters went around with carafes asking "coke or sprite"https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1025151531413381120 …

in other news I've been voraciously consuming primary/secondary sources and am increasingly convinced the idea of westphalianism was invented no earlier than the 1930s

rn my strategy is just reading academic papers and following the citation chains to conspicuous dead ends but I worry I'm missing something

basically what I'm trying to do is locate the earliest instances of particular terms, did librarians have some arcane method to do this before computers

do any trivial search restricted to the 19th or 20th centuries and you get three pages of results tops