I totally agree. When I use em-dashes in my /family iMessage thread/ I get accused of having used ChatGPT to write my reply—my one-sentence reply about dinner plans. Dear Lord.
Cecil’s answer isn’t quite right. “ectomy” is indeed “cut it out” but the first definition he gives for “ostomy” (“cut a hole in something”) is the proper definition for “otomy”. The second “ostomy” definition is correct: creating a stoma (mouth). It’s all Greek, for real.
Actually -otomy isn't even -otomy... it's -tomy. For example Craniotomy. Cranio-tomy.
cranio = κρανίο (skull)
tomy = τομή (cut)
And -tomy is just a cut, not cut a hole. To cut a hole you'd have to remove a part. Most of the cuts are straight lines and then the skin just opens up like a hole because of stretching.
Then, -ostomy is -stomy. Nephrostomy. Nephro-stomy.
Nephro = Νεφρό (Kidney)
Stomy = Στόμιο (something that has the shape of a mouth)
Finding equivalent idioms in different languages is one of the most fun things to do with LLMs.
One of the tricky parts, if you plan to actually use the idioms, is that they very greatly between different regions that use the same language. Particularly tricky with Spanish, considering so many countries on so many different continents use it. I haven't found LLMs to be good at knowing what regions use any given expression.
But we use a country name in the sentence: "That seems Spanish to me" (Das kommt mir spanisch vor) although that would 'translate' to "That seems fishy to me"
Greek physician from a family of Greek physicians confirms this. :)
Let me just add, that in the Western Medicine many words from anatomy come from Latin and many words from physiology/pathology come from Greek. Of course the Greeks themselves have their own words for anatomy as well.
I didn’t realise so many of these medical terms were Greek rather than Latin. Interesting!
Are these terms still used as-is in modern Greek? Much like how translating names of French dishes removes some of the air of sophistication, I feel like being told one is to receive a ‘skull cut’ sounds somewhat more scary than the (to an English speaker) academic-sounding ‘craniotomy’.
Amusingly, the word anatomy (“dissection”) is from Greek via Latin, from the very same root that we’re discussing here.
Other English terms from the Greek root for “cut”: tomography (imaging through a lot of cross-sections); entomology (study of in-sects, critters with sect-ions in their bodies); dichotomy (division into two possibilities); atom (that which cannot be divided).
“Up” or “thoroughly”, apparently? Same prefix as in analysis, anaphora, anamorphism. Ancient Greek had a sprawling system of prefixes that one can’t really pick up by osmosis, it seems.
(Complaints about noun morphology sound a bit hypocritical from a native speaker of Russian, I know, but it is what it is.)
This is a pretty uninformed take. The tech in AirPods is great, but people using a normal earphone as a hearing aid will be disappointed. The vast majority of people with hearing loss have a degree of loss that varies by sound frequency. If you boost everything 40 dB so the high pitches are back to normal, the low pitches will be extremely uncomfortable. The programming of a hearing aid is in many ways more important than the "engineering" that makes an AirPod Pro a great listening device.
Yeah. Also, I got a pair for my father in law (who has expensive hearing aids) for the remote listen accessibility feature (which uses the iPhone mic on the table next to the speaker instead of an in ear mic).
He was sorely disappointed. I tried that feature out before returning them, and agree.
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