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Clank (Wiktionary)
Noun: A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
Usage notes:
Clank usually expresses a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.

Edited to add:
And yet, this glass lid just made a "Clingggggg!" sound. In English, the word cling* isn't used for sounds. But German does; it has the verb "klingen" for the ringing of bells.

*I was wrong. Etymology #2 in the Wiktionary entry for the English word cling does have definition "To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell".

So... in English at least, having the 'ng' on the end imitates and implies a resounding sound, whereas 'nk" at the end imitates and implies a non-resounding sound.

"Bang" implies to me a little bit of resonance/ongoing sound.
"Boom" does too but maybe less, and lower pitched.

Said I, while perusing code.
Well, whoop-de-doo, I am amused by the sound of it, though not so much by the loopiddy-do code.
That is all.

No, there's more!
Check out the photo on the Wiktionary page for peruse. It offers amusement too.

phthisicky
(Adjective.) Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.

phthisis
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “to waste away”).
(Noun, archaic.) An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.

phthor
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φθορά (phthorá, “destruction”).
(Noun, obsolete, chemistry.) fluorine

phthongal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound, voice”).
(Adjective, phonetics.) Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized.


Wordmom: Words that start with PHTH

bestwordlist: List of words beginning with PHTH (with definitions)

thixotropic
adjective: (of fluids and gels) having a viscosity that decreases when a stress is applied, as when stirred.

thixotropy
noun: property of becoming fluid when agitated and gelling when left to stand.

Another typo which I sort of like.
Democracy gone crazy.

I came across this song on Youtube: The Cover Girls - Show Me Hearthrob Mix + Drumapella

The video shows an image of the vinyl record listing two separate songs on it, "Show Me (Heartthrob Mix)" and "Drumapella". I was curious what the 2nd song sounded like and wasn't clear if the video included it or not.

So I searched on that song title, "Drumapella", and was confused that the results listed many other songs by other artists with that word in their title. Searching on "what is drumapella" didn't give an answer. Wiktionary doesn't have the word listed either.

So I asked Copilot. This was the response:
"Drumapella" typically refers to a musical track or piece that combines the elements of a drumline (or drum track) with a cappella singing, which means singing without instrumental accompaniment. It's essentially a fusion of rhythmic drumming and vocal harmonies.
It’s an innovative way to blend percussive beats with vocal performances, creating a unique and dynamic sound.

Oh! So, "drum" + "a capella" = "drumapella". It makes sense.

Then I asked Copilot "What are some webpages that explain that?" The reply:
I couldn't find specific webpages that explain "drumapella" in detail, but there are some YouTube videos that showcase drumapella performances. These videos might give you a better understanding of how drumapella works...

It then gave links to 3 videos of songs with "drumapella" in the titles, none of whose descriptions explain what the word means. All 3 songs are from the same YouTube account, DjRubyEve. That account has been posting several remixes of famous songs per day, so I suspect the account uses AI to generate the remixes.

Other Youtube accounts have also posted "drumapella" songs, however. Some of these aren't drums + acapella singing, but rather only drums - a different usage/meaning of the word, which also makes sense.

A 1998 album with remixes of Madonna's song "Frozen" also has two "Drumapella" versions, so it is not a new word.

I am impressed that an LLM was able to figure out (presumably on its own, since I didn't find the word defined anywhere) that drumapella might be a combination of drums and acapella, especially as that didn't even occur to me until the LLM mentioned it.

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I have been turning to the LLMs for answers more and more often when my web searches prove unilluminating.

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When I originally searched on "what is drumapella", this Reddit page was one of the results: Is there a musical term for "a capella but percussion is allowed"?
I glossed over that page, because when I searched it, "drumapella" was not found. But now that I expanded all the collapsed comments in the thread, I found this one reply:
Dub?
”Drumcapella”?

So maybe the LLM partially got the answer from there even though "Drumcapella" has an extra "C" in it compared to "Drumapella".

I watched a course on Generative AI Prompting today where one of the hands-on tasks was to get ChatGPT to generate rhyming questions and answers from a paragraph taken from Wikipedia.

I took this paragraph on Saturn:

Saturn's interior is thought to be composed of a rocky core, surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, and finally, a gaseous outer layer. Saturn has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia crystals in its upper atmosphere. An electrical current within the metallic hydrogen layer is thought to give rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field, which is weaker than Earth's, but which has a magnetic moment 580 times that of Earth due to Saturn's larger size. Saturn's magnetic field strength is around one-twentieth of Jupiter's. The outer atmosphere is generally bland and lacking in contrast, although long-lived features can appear. Wind speeds on Saturn can reach 1,800 kilometres per hour (1,100 miles per hour).

I couldn't think of any rhymes from that myself, to provide as "few-shot" examples. So I simply asked ChatGPT to generate rhyming Q&As from the text.

It did pretty good; I liked these rhymes the best:

Q: Why does Saturn have a yellowish glow?
A: Ammonia crystals in clouds, you know,
Give it a pale hue, a soft show,
In the upper atmosphere, where they grow.

Q: What's the look of Saturn's outer layer?
A: Bland and lacking contrast there,
Yet long-lived features can appear,
In the atmosphere's drifting air.

Wiktionary: kayfabe
(professional wrestling) The act, situation, or code of portraying staged events, performances, rivalries, etc as authentic or spontaneous.
(figurative) Similar fakery or suspension of disbelief in other contexts.

Wikipedia: kayfabe

I came across the term on this page:
James Holzhauer Delivered the Greatest ‘Jeopardy!’ Burn of All Time, which reposted one of James' tweets:
Thanks to kenjennings and bradrutter for a hell of a match. Ken and Brad are great jeopardy players but even better people, and have been incredibly good sports about my kayfabe feuding and trash talk.

That confirms suspicions I've had after hearing those type of contestant interactions a few times on Jeopardy, that (while amusing) they were likely to have been scripted.

I am amused at myself for the term I just used when speaking to my dog about me using my laptop:
"doing my little tippy-tappy".


Tippy-tappy also describes the sound of her paws when she walks across wood floors. It's a cute sound except when you keep hearing it when you're trying to fall asleep. But from what I've read, it indicates her nails are too long. It's difficult for me to cut her nails as she squirms so much and pulls her paws away when I try. Also, the last time I did, I cut one nail too far and it started bleeding. That made me feel bad. Before I try again, I plan to buy some styptic powder to stop the bleeding in case it happens again.

To get her quicks to recede to make them less likely to get hurt and bleed, I will need to cut her nails fairly often, little by little (some tips I found are listed below). At her annual vet checkup last week, they trimmed her nails for us, so that's a good start.

Dog Grooming: How To Trim Nails On Difficult Dogs
(Wrap dog in towel like a burrito, but with paws sticking out. So actually, more like an enchilada.)

How To SUCCESSFULLY Recede The Quicks (Watch If You Have Struggled!)
(She says to cut around the quick from the front, top, and sides. That way it will recede.
Make sure the clippers are sharp, not dull, so they can slice thru the nails rather than crush them.)

How often should you do a dog's nails to recede the quicks? | ADVICE FROM A DOG GROOMER
@2:48 photo of nails before & after trim - shows them ground from the top edge not just the bottom.
She grinds them every 2 weeks for normal trimming.
@4:45 even 3 sessions 5 weeks apart made the quicks recede.

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Note to self: To include an "at symbol" (@) in my posts before another character, and to avoid it being interpreted as a mention and replaced with a user head icon and invalid link, I should use the HTML code: @
"commat" stands for commercial at.

German "Leiden" means "suffering".
German "Leidenshaft" means "passion".

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=passion
passion (n.)
Origin and meaning of passion
c. 1200, "the sufferings of Christ on the Cross; the death of Christ," from Old French passion "Christ's passion, physical suffering" (10c.), from Late Latin passionem (nominative passio) "suffering, enduring," from past-participle stem of Latin pati "to endure, undergo, experience," a word of uncertain origin. The notion is "that which must be endured."
The sense was extended to the sufferings of martyrs, and suffering and pain generally, by early 13c.
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The specific meaning "intense or vehement emotion or desire" is attested from late 14c., from Late Latin use of passio to render Greek pathos "suffering," also "feeling, emotion."

German "Begeisterung" means "enthusiasm". (Not "fascination" as I always thought.)
But wait, Google Translate does show that one meaning of "begeistern" is "to fascinate". My paper German/English books don't even list that meaning. So I wonder why the noun "Begeisterung" wouldn't also mean fascination.