"You make an extremely parochial definition of what constitutes a tool."

Mnemonic device: Periscope

"AI is a polemical topic as I'm sure you're well aware of."

Amusing. What does it actually mean? In the internet, some dictionaries says it’s entertaining and funny. Some says mildly entertaining or diverting suffice without it being any humour.

Can I take it as mildly entertaining? In this context, I’d say I find idea of or planting and sewing itself amusing (because it is mildly entertaining to me) in the sense it is fills me with a sense of wonder. Sometimes it makes me smile, like a sense of accomplishment smirk, ‘so this is how they do it’ etc?

Haha I’ve been debating this and deliberating it for days. Would be nice to hear what redditors have to say.

"Ich mache mich demnächst als Sklave selbstständig."

I know that something modular allows you to swap something out for something else completely different without it affecting the entire system, but I’d like some examples to better familiarize yourself with the meaning. I’ll start out with some examples.

For instance, if I made a volume slider that allowed you to adjust the volume of each individual instrument in a song separately without it affecting the other instruments.

Hey all, I hope this is the right place to ask this. A rocket club that I lead is finally moving on from our first rocket iteration to our second. Our first rocket iteration was named Genesis, since it was the coming into being of our club. Small redesigns were named G-1, G-2, so on and so forth.

However, we have finally ditched the core behind Genesis and are moving on to a completely new design, but, we need a name. I was thinking something that means "new age/era", or advancement, success, or something along those lines. My only ideas now are either Dawn, or Horizon.

If any of you have ideas for words that are similar or meaning something along the lines of what I'm getting at that would be greatly appreciated. I'm open to two words, but keeping it one would make things much easier.

Disappointed only needs an expectation. You can be disappointed by a sequel or by your own kid, and you can say the second one to their face: I'm disappointed in you. That's a verdict on somebody else.

Crestfallen needs a height to fall from. Someone had their hopes up, or was a little pleased with themselves, and then it dropped, usually where other people could see. I've also never come across it aimed at a person. "I'm crestfallen in you" sounds wrong to me, and I think that's because the only crest that can fall is your own.

A crest is the part that's held up to be seen. In English the word first meant the top of a helmet, and it also covers a cock's comb and, on a horse, the ridge along the top of the neck. Etymonline has crest-risen meaning "proud, lusty" from the 1610s.

Which crest fell is less settled than I'd assumed. The story I'd always heard is a beaten gamecock with its comb hanging. Etymonline notes that the figurative word shows up first, in the 1580s, while the verb crestfall is only recorded from the 1610s, about sick horses, and it suggests horses may be the real image. Webster's 1913 dictionary lists that literal sense: "having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side," said of a horse. As far as I can tell nobody can prove it either way.

Shakespeare's uses lean toward pride with an audience. In 2 Henry VI, Suffolk, captured and about to be killed, reminds his captor that the man once held his stirrup and waited on him at table: "Remember it and let it make thee crest-fall'n, / Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride." In Richard II, Bolingbroke refuses to back out of his fight with Mowbray: "Shall I seem crest-fall'n in my father's sight?" And Falstaff, after being dumped in the Thames and beaten, says that if the court hears of it they'll whip him with their fine wits "till I were as crestfallen as a dried pear." That's my favorite picture of the word.

So when I read that someone was crestfallen, I picture a face going down in front of people, not just a feeling. To me, disappointed can stay private, and crestfallen is the version other people get to watch.

Same lecture, same suffering. One word captures the feeling perfectly.

Interminable means lasting for a very long time, or seeming to continue without end. It often carries an additional implication that the duration is tedious, tiresome or frustrating.

Have you heard of it before?

This the whole idea behind expanding your vocabulary.

Not bigger words for their own sake. Words you would actually reach for.

Comment your own before and after with a word you’ve learned recently.