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xeno
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
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We might label the emotion we’re feeling “disappointment” or “frustration,” or we might say we‘re “crestfallen.” But John Koenig likely has an even better word to offer.
Koenig, a Minnesota author, recently wrote a book called “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” based on his popular blog of the same name. In it, he comes up with new words for emotions that we don’t usually have the language to express. Koenig joined host Cathy Wurzer to discuss the power of words and examine some of his creations.
Minnesota Now
A Minneapolis writer invents new words to help us process our collective malaise
Cathy Wurzer and Kelly Gordon
December 30, 2021 5:35 PM
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The specific name xenomorph comes from Aliens, the 1986 sequel to the 1979 Alien. The film has a passing reference to the alien species as xenomorphs. The word derives from the Greek xenos, meaning “stranger” or “foreigner,” and morph(ḗ), meaning “form.” A xenomorph, then, can be taken as an “alien-shaped thing.”
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A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment (country rock) that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification. In geology, the term xenolith is almost exclusively used to describe inclusions in igneous rock entrained during magma ascent, emplacement and eruption.[
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Alien languages, i.e. languages of extraterrestrial beings, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far.[1] The research in these hypothetical languages is variously called exolinguistics, xenolinguistics[2] or astrolinguistics.[3][4] The question of what form alien languages might take and the possibility for humans to recognize and translate them has been part of the linguistics and language studies courses, e.g., at the Bowling Green State University (2001).[5]
Noam Chomsky (1983), starting with his hypothesis of a genetically-predetermined universal grammar of human languages, held that it would be impossible for a human to naturally learn an alien language because it would most probably violate the universal grammar inborn in humans. Humans would have to study an alien language by the slow way of discovery, the same way as scientists do research in, say, physics.[6]
wiki, xenolinguistics
The group then gradually declined in diversity until finally going extinct during the Permo-Triassic extinction event. During the Tournaisian epoch of the Carboniferous, Miliolid foraminifera first appeared in the fossil record, having diverged from the spirillinids within the Tubothalamea.
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They get their name from the foramen, an opening or tube that interconnects all the chambers of the test. Fossilised tests are found in sediments as old as the earliest Cambrian (about 545 million years ago) and foraminifera can still be found in abundance today, living in marine and brackish waters.
web, British Geology Society
I don't want to live that way,
Reading something into everything you say!
Gotye
Trapped
So,
We cool off,
Foraminiferans after the Brazilian Blast,
Xeno Fossils
In the lava traps-
Used to be knowns.
DolphinWords
Notes: welp, this goes back to talking to the whale, a tap tap tap, answered with a tap tap tap-then the diver does a roll over, and then the whale does a roll over...mimicry is not unique in the universe!...ghhhehh, Chomsky is a pill...Transformational Grammer was my undoing in Junior High School, 1960...it was new, it put an end to traditional grammer texts, came packaged in paperback, and typewriter like type face...a "new algebra" book like it -self guided- threw me too...then there was Spanish...and JFK's pushups...mathscience so we could crew atomic submarines and such...I wanted to know Euclid, Pythagorus, Latin, Greek...the stuff from beyondbefore...I could still do those things, a bit ostentatious though...anyway, browsing facebook I happened on a rock...what's this?...a Xenolith...oh, a compound!...and looked up Xeno...aaand, that's really really cool...
Aloha,
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