A comprehensive dictionary of Bharatanatyam review: A guide for the uninitiated - The Week - Dictionary

Mudras are the defining feature of Bharatnatyam - the gestures that convey specific meanings and emotions. These gestures are the intricate movements of the fingers and hands, which help the dancer express various emotions - happiness, love, sorrow, anger and many more. And, for each expression, the mudras differ and each mudra holds its own significance helping the dancer narrate a story or play a specific character or express powerful emotions.

For Bharatanatyam experts, the names of these gestures or mudras come easily. For some of them remembering the names of the mudras and adavus may be a task. For the audience or a layman who doesn’t know even the basics of Bharatanatyam, the names of these expressions will be completely new. What if there is a dictionary or a book to explain all the terminologies used in Bharatnatyam?

Meet danseuse Vidya Bhavani Suresh who had come out with ‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of Bharatanatyam. ’As we sit to talk, a few minutes into our conversation her hands move up in the air to take the form of a mudra. Her eyes emote and express. A musicologist, and a company secretary by profession, danseuse Vidhya Bhavani Suresh is an author of 45 books, delving deep into the art form.

Her latest book Vidya has curated the various aspects of Bharatanatyam. As the name suggests it is a dictionary for students or aspirants who want to master the art form, explaining various mudras, adavus and their names. The book puts together 115 Bharatanatyam-related terminologies related to the classical dance form along with short definitions and images illustrated by her daughters Harshita Suresh and Mahitha Suresh.

Vidya’s images are also in the book as she explains some of the significant mudras. The images facilitate easy understanding of the dance movements, expressions and emotions. 

Every terminology has a single-line definition. From the most basic of Bharatanatyam - called as Araimandi or half seated posture to salangai - the anklet worn by the dancers the book explains in detail every aspect. It also talks about four types of abhinayas, aharyas and the ornaments used by the dancers. 

"The joy in performing art is fulfilled only when the audience is completely informed. The book is part of my effort to tell the world about Bharatanatyam, right from the basics to its fullest. I have alphabetically organised the terminologies," Vidya says. Published by Skanda Publications it is priced at Rs 1,330.

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Dictionary of Eggcorns: words mispelled as other words - Boing Boing - Dictionary

The Eggcorn Database [via] collects and defines words misheard, mistaken or misspelled as other words—like "Eggcorns" and "acorns"—including etymologies and notable examples. It's an Oxfit dictionary for those eye-twitching moments from internet comments and social media postings.

[for] example replacing "Alzheimer's disease" with "old-timers' disease",[2] or William Shakespeare's "to the manner born" with "to the manor born". … Eggcorns arise when people attempt to use analogy and logic to make sense of an expression – often a stock one – that includes a term which is not meaningful to them. For example, the stock expression "in one fell swoop" might be replaced by "in one foul swoop", the infrequently-used adjective "fell" (for "fierce", "cruel", or "terrible") being replaced with the more common word "foul" in order to convey the cruel/underhand meaning of the phrase as the speaker understands it.

Here's the full list.

Though not the most common or famous egghorn, "to the manor born" is surely the most memetically successful in obliterating the phase it drived from.

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Elden Ring scholar makes a dictionary for every name in the RPG, somehow already including Shadow of the Erdtree ... - Gamesradar - Dictionary

An Elden Ring veteran has constructed an ‘Etymology Dictionary’ featuring every name in FromSoftware’s massive RPG, delving into their origins. 

‘The Elden Ring Etymology Document’ is a massive undertaking from The Red Scholar, who has attempted to compile a complete list of every name in Elden Ring and analyze where around the world and at what point in human history the name could have possibly originated. 

Take ‘Agheel’ for example, which is taken from the early-game boss Flying Dragon Agheel. The Elden Ring Etymology Document explains that the Agheel part of the name could be taken from the Northern Kurdish word ‘aghir,’ which translates to ‘fire,’ or the Latin word ‘aquila,’ which means ‘eagle’ in English. 

The Red Scholar has even taken into account Elden Ring’s Japanese names for its characters. The Spirit Summon Aurelia, the big glowing jellyfish the player can summon, is actually called ‘Clara’ in Elden Ring’s Japanese release, and The Red Scholar reveals this is the feminine form of the Late Latin word ‘Clarus,’ which can be translated to either ‘clear,’ ‘bright,’ or ‘famous’ in English. 

Actually, these Japanese names have proved an understandable challenge for The Red Scholar. As explained in the Etymology Document’s introduction, translating some Katakana from Japanese can be frustratingly ambiguous, as something like ‘ローレッタ’ can be read as either ‘Lorreta’ or ‘Roletta’ in English. Welcome to the incredibly complicated world of translating Japanese! 

Brilliantly, the Etymology Document even features names for Shadow of the Erdtree, despite the fact that the DLC has yet to be released. ‘Messmer,’ for example, from Messmer the Impaler, might relate to the German word ‘Messmer,’ which in English is the word ‘sexton,’ meaning a church official who tends to the church itself and a graveyard, possibly even doubling as a gravedigger. 

The DLC section of the Etymology Document isn’t yet complete, though, which is entirely forgivable. Names like ‘Onze’ and ‘Ymir’ still need to be properly translated and researched, which is possibly where The Red Scholar’s helpers come in - there are 10 other names listed with thanks in the Etymology Document by its creator. There’ll probably be a lot more names to track down and analyze once Shadow of the Erdtree actually launches. 

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If you’re desperate to know what to expect from the DLC when it launches tomorrow, check out our in-depth Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree review for more. You can also read our guide on how to start the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC in Elden Ring for instructions on where to head as soon as the DLC is out. 

Make sure to bookmark our Elden Ring DLC release time tracker for info on when Shadow of the Erdtree releases in your region around the world.

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News Flash • Dynamics Dictionary - Maricopa County, AZ - Dictionary

Abstract

The Maricopa County Human Services Department provides a wide array of programs and services. It is critical that communication used within the Maricopa County Human Services Department and with its clients be as clear and understandable as possible. In a large multi-faceted department, having workgroup-specific definitions may lead to confusion forclients. In an attempt to develop a common understanding of terms and phrases, the Maricopa County Human ServicesDepartment developed, and continues to develop, the Maricopa County Human Services Department Data Dictionary.

The primary purpose of the Data Dictionary is to ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of the terms and phrases used by staff. It was critical that the terms be used uniformly to maintain data integrity within the HSD Dynamics client relationship management software, which has been implemented throughout the Maricopa County Human Services Department. The data integrity within the HSD Dynamics system required all users enter the data in the appropriate fields in a consistent manner. Without a common understanding of the terms, the wrong information may be entered in the fields, leading to inaccurate data.

The Data Dictionary was developed by a sub-committee of the Maricopa County Human Services Department Dynamics Steering Committee.

Problem or Need Addressed by the Program

As the Maricopa County Human Services Department provides a wide array of programs and services, it is critical that the communication used within the Maricopa County Human Services Department and with its clients be as clear and understandable as possible. In a large multi-faceted department, having workgroup-specific definitions may lead to confusion for clients. In an attempt to develop a common understanding of terms and phrases, the Maricopa County Human Services Department developed, and continues to develop, the Maricopa County Human Services Department Data Dictionary.

The primary purpose of the Data Dictionary is to ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of the terms and phrases used by Maricopa County Human Services Department employees. It was critical that the terms be used uniformly in order to maintain data integrity within the HSD Dynamics client relationship management software, which has been implemented throughout the Maricopa County Human Services Department.

Program Description

As the Maricopa County Human Services Department provides a wide array of programs and services, it is critical that the communication used within the department and with clients be as clear and understandable as possible. 

In a large multi-faceted department, it is understandable individual workgroups may develop their own set of definitions for phrases or terms. When those terms mean one thing to one workgroup and another thing to another workgroup, it can be confusing, and may lead to confusion for clients.

In an attempt to develop a common understanding of terms and phrases, the Maricopa County Human Services Department developed, and continues to develop, the Maricopa County Human Services Department Data Dictionary (Data Dictionary). A data dictionary is a centralized repository that provides detailed information about the data used in a database or information system. It serves as a reference guide for data management, helping users understand the structure, definition, relationships, and other characteristics of the data within a system. The primary purpose of a data dictionary is to ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of data across an organization.

The primary purpose of the Data Dictionary is to ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of the terms and phrases used by Maricopa County Human Services Department employees. It was critical that the terms be used uniformly in order to maintain data integrity within the HSD Dynamics client relationship management software, which has been implemented throughout the Maricopa County Human Services Department. The data integrity within the HSD Dynamics system required that all users enter the data in the appropriate fields in a consistent manner. Without a common understanding of the terms, the wrong information may be entered in the fields, leading to inaccurate data. The Data Dictionary was developed by a sub-committee (Sub-Committee) of the Maricopa County Human Services Department Dynamics Steering Committee (Dynamics Steering Committee). The Dynamics Steering Committee was formed in order to incorporate multiple perspectives in order to achieve Department goals.

The objective of forming the Dynamics Steering Committee was to have well-rounded points of view when making decisions for the HSD Dynamics project. This was achieved by ensuring the right representatives were on the Dynamics Steering Committee. The Dynamics Steering Committee was comprised of stakeholders assembled to provide guidance, direction, and oversight of the HSD Dynamics project. These stakeholders came from programs across the entire Department. The group consisted of new users of the system, future users of the system, and experienced users of the systems. The group members each represented their programs and provided input on how actions may impact their operations. The members were a mix of front-line staff and management as well as executive staff members. Each of the members had a vested interest in the success of the HSD Dynamics project.

Membership was initially determined by members of the Maricopa County Human Services Department Executive Team. The Maricopa County Human Services Department Executive Team members evaluated their respective team members and determined the best fit for the Dynamics Steering Committee. They selected team members who had in-depth knowledge of their program areas, and who could understand potential impacts of changes made to the system. Maricopa County Human Services Department Executive Team members did not select Dynamics Steering Committee members based on their skills with using the system, but instead for their overall knowledge. There were representatives from each division within the Maricopa County Human Services Department.

The initial set of phrases and terms were developed through input received by others. Leadership and field staff suggested phrases and terms to be included. The Sub-Committee also added terms to the list of phrases and terms. In order to keep the work manageable, the first set of terms was limited to approximately 20 terms. When other terms came up in the process of defining the original set of terms, they were placed in a "parking lot" list with the other terms identified for definition. Before a consistent and accurate common understanding could be developed, each of the represented workgroups needed to provide their definitions of the terms and phrase. In several cases, it was determined while staff "knew" what the term or phrase meant, it was difficult to define – which proved the need for the Data Dictionary.

Once each workgroup provided their respective definitions, a table was created comparing the definitions for each term. While there were commonalities, there were fine details that differed from one group to another. 

Each of those differs were discussed, analyzed by the Sub-Committee, and a common understanding was developed. In some cases, this meant that individual workgroups were going to have to actively change the way they referred to certain terms or phrases. This requires regular modelling, and present movement awareness.

The Sub-Committee continues to operate and provide definitions to terms. Future plans include incorporating person-first language into the definitions.

Program Cost

Being funded by Federal grants with stringent guidelines and oversight places the Maricopa County Human Services Department in a position that demands impeccable fiscal and budgetary actions. The responsibility associated with handling public funds is not just a mere requirement but a paramount necessity. The public's trust in the government is directly tied to how responsibly public funds are managed. Consequently, the Maricopa County Human Services Department recognizes the significance of being above reproach in all financial matters.

Fiscal responsibility is not merely a procedural requirement; it is a cornerstone that fosters trust and confidence among the public. When the community sees that their tax dollars are being managed with prudence and transparency, it creates a positive perception of the government. This positive perception, in turn, encourages efficiency in the delivery of public services. Responsible fiscal management means utilizing resources optimally, thereby reducing waste and ensuring that the maximum benefit is derived from every dollar spent on public programs.

The implementation of the Data Dictionary Sub-Committee (Sub-Committee) was achieved through the use of existing staff and resources. The Data Dictionary was developed by a sub-committee of the Maricopa County Human Services Department Dynamics Steering Committee.

Monthly meetings were held during business hours within Department facilities. No overtime or additional staff time outside of business hours.

Membership on the Maricopa County Human Services Department Dynamics Steering Committee was initially determined by members of the Maricopa County Human Services Department Executive Team. The Maricopa County Human Services Department Executive Team members evaluated their respective team members and determined the best fit for the Dynamics Steering Committee. They selected team members who had in-depth knowledge of their program areas, and who could understand potential impacts of changes made to the system. There were representatives from each division within the Maricopa County Human Services Department.

It was important to include subject matter experts to bring diverse perspectives and expertise to the decision-making process. These diverse perspectives allow for enhancing the quality of decisions made by the Dynamics Steering Committee. Additionally, having various representatives in the same room provides the opportunity for discussion and resolution of any potential issues, helping to maintain a positive and collaborative working environment.

The develop of the Steering Committee relied heavily on staff members' knowledge, skills, and experience in their respective fields. The Sub-Committee's objectives were achieved by leveraging the existing staff's expertise and utilizing their talents to evaluate and make recommendations.

The Maricopa County Human Services Department had been working with a third-party consultant on the development and implementation of the HSD Dynamics systems. Information from the consultant was developed outside of the Sub-Committee, and was absorbed in the HSD Dynamics project, and did not require additional funds.

The implementation of the Sub-Committee has enabled the Maricopa County Human Services Department to develop a common understanding of terms and phrases without incurring additional costs or expenses. The clear communication removes ambiguity. Clear communication helps minimize misunderstandings, reducing confusion. Using terms and phrases uniformly across the Department fosters a sense of belonging and understanding.

Results/Success of the Program

As the Maricopa County Human Services Department provides a wide array of programs and services, it is critical that the communication used within the Maricopa County Human Services Department and with its clients be as clear and understandable as possible. In a large multi-faceted department, having workgroup-specific definitions may lead to confusion for clients. In an attempt to develop a common understanding of terms and phrases, the Maricopa County Human Services Department developed, and continues to develop, the Maricopa County Human Services Department Data Dictionary.

The primary purpose of the Data Dictionary is to ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of the terms and phrases used by Maricopa County Human Services Department employees. It was critical that the terms be used uniformly in order to maintain data integrity within the HSD Dynamics client relationship management software, which has been implemented throughout the Maricopa County Human Services Department.

The data integrity within the HSD Dynamics system required that all users enter the data in the appropriate fields in a consistent manner. Without a common understanding of the terms, the wrong information may be entered in the fields, leading toinaccurate data.

The initial set of phrases and terms were developed through input received by others. Leadership and field staff suggested phrases and terms to be included. The Sub-Committee also added terms to the list of phrases and terms. In order to keep the work manageable, the first set of terms was limited to approximately 20 terms. When other terms came up in the process of defining the original set of terms, they were placed in a "parking lot" list with the other terms identified for definition.

Before a consistent and accurate common understanding could be developed, each of the represented workgroups needed to provide their definitions of the terms and phrase. In several cases, it was determined while staff "knew" what the term or phrase meant, it was difficult to define – which proved the need for the Data Dictionary.

Once each workgroup provided their respective definitions, a table was created comparing the definitions for each term. While there were commonalities, there were fine details that differed from one group to another. Each of those differs were discussed, analyzed by the Sub-Committee, and a common understanding was developed. In some cases, this meant that individual workgroups were going to have to actively change the way they referred to certain terms or phrases. This requires regular modeling, and present movement awareness.

The Sub-Committee continues to operate and provide definitions to terms. Future plans include the development of a SharePoint intranet page of terms accessible to all Maricopa County Human Services Department staff members. Additional plans include incorporating person-first language into the definitions, which emphasizes the individuality, and dignity of a person before any reference to their condition or identify.

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Artificial General Intelligence, Shrinkflation and Snackable are Some of the Many New, Revised, or Updated Words and ... - LJ INFOdocket - Dictionary

We’re sure you’ll agree that 2024 is turning out to be anything but beige (bland or unremarkable; uninspiring). We’re set to see a record-breaking number of elections this year, with 50 countries due to head to the polls before the year is out. Readers with an interest in UK and/or European politics might remember that we added Brexit to the OED back in 2016. Since then, several related words have proven their longevity, and this month, we’ve added entries for leaver, Brexiter, and Brexiteer (referring to people who supported, campaigned, or voted for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union), as well as remainer and Remoaner (words referring to those who did the same on the other side, wanting the UK to stay in the EU).

If you find yourself befuddled (bewildered, confused) by current political debates, take refuge in the enjoyability (the fact or quality of being enjoyable; congeniality, pleasurableness) of the following lighter offering. Have you found the third series of Netflix’s glamorous Bridgerton binge-worthy? Taken note of the hunkiness (qualities or characteristics considered to be hunky, especially rugged good looks or sexual attractiveness) of its male stars? Then it may interest you to know that it was not until the early 1900s that the word glamour came to be associated with attractiveness and luxury. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ‘glamour’ was all about enchantment – to cast a glamour over someone meant putting them quite literally under your spell.

The word only became closely associated with visual opulence, physical attraction, and charisma in the later twentieth century, perhaps as a result of the rise of cinema and the Golden Age of Hollywood. In the 1970s, the advent of glam rock – the style of rock music where performers such as David Bowie made flamboyant clothes and make-up a feature of their onstage performances and personas – sealed this linguistic shift. Other associated additions include glam rocker, visual kei (the glam rock movement or aesthetic in Japanese rock music), glam up (to make oneself more glamorous), glamour puss (a glamorous or attractive person), glamazon (a tall, glamorous, and powerful woman), and glampsite – the most luxurious location to get your fix of the great outdoors.

Speaking of the great outdoors, wildscape now has its own entry. Meaning ‘an area within which plants and animals have been able to thrive with minimal or no human presence’, it conjures up more peaceful scenes than some of our other environment-related additions. Five-alarm (designating a particularly large, fierce, destructive fire, especially one requiring a large-scale response from firefighters) and megadrought (a drought lasting many years, great both in extent and severity) echo other alarming language used in the world of meteorology, such as weather bomb (added in 2015) and blood rain (added in 2012).

Moving back indoors and online, we’ve added a number of technology related terms, perhaps most notably artificial general intelligence, or AGI for short. This is a form of AI in which a machine or computer program can (hypothetically) simulate behaviour as intelligent as, or more intelligent than, that of a human being. When it comes to human activity on the internet, we’ve added freecycle (to give away an unwanted possession, especially when agreed or arranged via an online network) and edgelord (a person who affects a provocative or extreme persona, especially online). Snackable, meanwhile, can be used to describe a video or other item of digital content, especially on social media, that is designed for brief and easy consumption, or to refer to food intended as a snack IRL (‘in real life’ – which is not a new addition, but is an enjoyable acronym).

Speaking of snacks, babyccino (a frothy hot milk drink for children, intended to resemble a cappuccino) and the regrettable shrinkflation (a reduction in the size or weight of products with no corresponding reduction in price, a phenomenon first described this way in 2008) can now be found in the OED. Fewer tasty treats for more money? How regrettable. One last food-related anecdote before we sign off – the verb beef has a new first sense. Evidence dating from the early 1800s shows the phrase to cry beef had the meaning ‘to raise the alarm or make an outcry against a person, especially to cry for help to arrest an escaping thief’. This seems to be a precursor to the more familiar current senses of beef (and indeed beefing) relating to arguments, fights, and feuds.

Sadly, we can’t squeeze another word in edgeways (to contribute something to a conversation, usually with the implication that this is difficult because the other speakers are talking incessantly). T minus three months until the next quarterly update… Join us then.

Learn More

For more insight into the surprising joint linguistic origins of the words glamour and grammar, see this blog post. These new word notes include discussion of the word coruscating (recommended reading), and this piece focuses on updates around Indo-European words. A selection of highlights from the list of new words added, new senses added, and additions to unrevised entries are available too.

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Opinion | The Supreme Court's bump stock ruling values dictionaries over human lives - The Washington Post - Dictionary

Conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court have decided that more Americans must die in mass shootings because they have a quibble over the word “function.”

In striking down the 2018 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regulation banning bump stocks, which effectively turn semiautomatic rifles into machine guns, the court’s six conservative justices not only put their ideological preconceptions ahead of rational policymaking. They also privileged an arrogant, misplaced confidence in their own technical expertise over a federal agency’s thoughtful effort to prevent the grotesque slaughter of innocents.

Will this ruling allow demented killers to fire more than 1,000 rounds in 10 minutes? Not our problem, said the six conservatives. We know how guns work, and we consulted several dictionaries about what words mean.

You have to look at the blandly technical language of Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion to appreciate how bloodless this ruling is. Thomas goes on and on about gun mechanics, as if the only issue is establishing that bump stocks might not make semiautomatic rifles exactly as lethal as machine guns. Liberals are regularly accused of being too ideological and too technocratic. This is a ruling of right-wing ideological technocrats utterly indifferent to the consequences of an approach that blithely floats above reality.

“A semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock does not fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger,’” Thomas writes. “With or without a bump stock, a shooter must release and reset the trigger between every shot. And, any subsequent shot fired after the trigger has been released and reset is the result of a separate and distinct ‘function of the trigger.’ All that a bump stock does is accelerate the rate of fire by causing these distinct ‘function[s]’ of the trigger to occur in rapid succession.”

Read that phrase again: “All that a bump stock does …”

Yes, “all that a bump stock does” is allow killers to shoot many more people much more efficiently. Machine guns were banned because they were so lethal. The ATF’s bump stock regulation grew out of the experiences of mass shootings, which have demonstrated their lethality. But experience does not matter to the well-protected justices.

Thomas added to the sense that the court sees this as little more than a disquisition in a drawing room, flaunting references to the Oxford English Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary and Webster’s New International Dictionary on the meaning of the word “function.”

The clash between the drawing room and real life was brought home by the first sentences of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s powerful dissent: “On October 1, 2017, a shooter opened fire from a hotel room overlooking an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada, in what would become the deadliest mass shooting in U. S. history. Within a matter of minutes, using several hundred rounds of ammunition, the shooter killed 58 people and wounded over 500. He did so by affixing bump stocks to commonly available, semiautomatic rifles.”

She then moved quickly to the consequences of the conservatives’ bizarre dogmatism: “Today, the Court puts bump stocks back in civilian hands.” Writing for herself and Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sotomayor referred to the dictionary, too, but, more importantly, Congress’s intent when it banned machine guns in the first place. In the process, she offered a far more compelling account of what bump stocks do.

“Congress’s definition of ‘machinegun’ encompasses bump stocks just as naturally as M16s,” she wrote. “Today’s decision to reject that ordinary understanding will have deadly consequences.” Sotomayor concluded by bringing the court down from the clouds of theory and back to the brutalities she invoked at the outset. “The majority’s artificially narrow definition,” she wrote, “hamstrings the Government’s efforts to keep machineguns from gunmen like the Las Vegas shooter.” It is as simple as that.

Defenders of the court majority will no doubt say that Congress can clarify the law by banning bump stocks directly, and of course that is what should happen now. But will congressional conservatives, who fall over themselves to venerate Donald Trump, be eager to restore a policy instituted by his administration? Call me skeptical.

It is, however, instructive to contemplate what it means for this majority — bolstered by three of Trump’s own nominees — to place itself to the former president’s right (or at least to the right of Trump in 2017). In any event, congressional action should not be necessary, and this decision will drive home just how distorted and radical conservative jurisprudence on guns has become.

Mass shootings bring avoidable suffering to our nation and ought to shame us. But this Supreme Court majority is not shamed. It prefers to page through dictionaries, pretend its members hold advanced engineering degrees and sniff superciliously at even the most modest and practical regulatory efforts to stop the killing. And all the while, it will be protected from accountability the next time a mass shooter affixes a bump stock to his weapon and starts firing.

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Metro Detroit Salon Owner Releases Natural Hair Dictionary - Power 98 FM - Dictionary

Black hair is a testament to ever-changing styles and unique expressions. From elegant twists and protective braids to timeless afros and natural curls, each hairstyle carries cultural significance and personal narrative. In Metro Detroit, a stylist and salon owner has created the “world’s first-ever” Natural Hair Dictionary, celebrating these styles and affirming the beauty of every individual’s hair journey.

Mo Williams, founder of Such a Natural, a Black-owned hair salon in Metro Detroit, has authored and published the “world’s first-ever” Natural Hair Dictionary, a new book that defines exactly what natural hair and hairstyles are.

What to expect from the Natural Hair Dictionary

The Natural Hair Dictionary’s: Natural Hair Style List includes titles, descriptions, and more than 60 original photographs defining natural hairstyles.

“The NATURAL HAIR DICTIONARY® is taking the steps necessary to become a global resource, not only to the novice but also as a tool for those already in the natural hair industry to help educate clients, prospects, family and friends,” said the website.

According to the website, they’re also working on more editions that will expand on other types of hairstyles including protective styles and extensions.

Since its release, the book has received some good reviews. “Excellent book! Very informative,” said Kimberly Allen, Michigan Board of Cosmetology and cosmetology instructor. “The book is a true gift, it explains the intricacies of everything from braided updos to micro twists. A must-have for anyone interested in natural hair,” Journalist Kahn Santori Davison said about the natural hair dictionary.

The creator of the book will be holding a book talk at the Detroit Public Library Jefferson branch located at 12350 E. Outer Dr. on June 24. The all-ages events will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The Natural Hair Dictionary’s: Natural Hair Style List is available for purchase locally in the Detroit, Michigan area at The Van Dyke and 27th Letter Bookstores. Don’t worry if you’re nowhere near Detroit, it’s also available on Amazon and NaturalHairDictionary.com.

Similar hair books to check out

A personal blog I follow, Kink & Coil has a similar hair dictionary. It covers the classification of hair types, hair care methods, kinds of styles, hair slang and abbreviations, and more. There are also children’s books available like My Natural Hair Dictionary on Amazon that encourage kids of color to discover the meaning of natural hair terms.

“From afros to wash and go’s, young readers will traverse the alphabet, encountering various natural hairstyles, hair-care products, and tools. With the help of bright, brilliant illustrations depicting life, family, and nature, kids will also learn about parts of speech and pronunciation,” according to the book’s description.

Kayla is the midday host on Detroit’s 105.1 The Bounce. She started her career in radio back in 2016 as an intern at another Detroit station and worked her way here. She's made stops in Knoxville, TN, Omaha, Ne and other places before returning to Detroit. She’s done almost everything in radio from promotions to web, creating content on social media, you name it. She’s a true Michigander, born and raised. So, you can catch her camping or vacationing up north to exploring the downtown Detroit or maybe even catching a sports game. During her free time, Kayla enjoys watching movies, roller-skating, crafting, and music festivals. She and her husband together dip into many of the great things Michigan has to offer. Together they also like to travel. A few hobbies of hers include wine and beer tastings, crafting, hiking, roller skating, movies, home improvement projects, gardening, and festivals. She’s always looking to take on more local events happening in the community. She loves connecting with the community. When writing, Kayla covers topics including lifestyle, pop culture, trending stories, hacks, and urban culture.

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Whoopers and Floppin Dingers: Our Show Dictionary | KROX - Austin, TX - 101X ALTERNATIVE AUSTIN - Dictionary

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Olympics Dictionary: Breaking to Dream Team, judo to rings - ESPN - Dictionary

• Keith Jenkins

Jun 11, 2024, 11:24 AM ET

The 2024 Paris Olympic Summer Games, which begin in July, will feature athletes from around the world competing in 17 different cities across metropolitan France and Tahiti. Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, will host the two-day surfing competition, a mere 9,765 miles from Paris. What other facts should fans know ahead of this year's event? Check out this A-Z Olympics guide.

A

Athens: The site of the first modern Olympics in 1896.

B

Breaking: A form of dance originated within hip-hop culture in the 1970s that will make its Olympic debut.

C

Curling: a competition typically held during the Winter Olympics where contestants launch a 40-plus-pound granite stone down a sheet of ice at a specific target. The name comes from the unique turning that happens at the end of the stone's path on the ice.

D

Dream Team: Commonly referred to as the best basketball team ever assembled; the 1992 U.S. men's basketball team, led by Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley and others, won gold at the Barcelona Olympics. The team defeated its opponents by an average of more than 40 points en route to beating Croatia in the final.

E

Elaine: Hailing from Jamaica, Elaine Thompson-Herah is the two-time defending gold medalist in the 100 meters and looks to join fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt as the only man or woman to win the event three times.

F

France: The French men's basketball team looks to become only the second host nation to win the gold medal. Team USA did it twice in 1984 (Los Angeles) and 1996 (Atlanta).

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Golf: While a popular competition worldwide for generations, golf didn't become a fixture in the Olympics until the 2016 Rio Games. Prior to 2016, the event was featured in the Olympics only twice -- 1900 and 1904.

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Handball: A fast-paced sport where players use their hands to pass and throw a ball into the opposing team's goal, handball first was introduced as part of the 1936 Berlin Olympics as field handball. The indoor version was first featured at the 1972 Munich Games.

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Icho: Japanese wrestler Kaori Icho is the only woman to win an individual-event gold medal in four consecutive Olympic Games.

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Judo: Frenchman Teddy Riner is the most decorated judoka in the history of the Olympic Games, winning five total medals, including gold in the men's heavyweight division at the 2012 London Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Kayak cross: A combination of all of canoeing's whitewater disciplines -- contested by four competitors simultaneously -- that will make its Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Ledecky: American swimmer Katie Ledecky looks to become the winningest U.S. female Olympian of all time, in terms of total medals won and gold medals won. Ledecky, who enters the 2024 Paris Olympics with 10 total medals and seven golds, would need to win three medals (with two of them being gold) to claim each distinction.

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Mexico City: After the 200-meter race at the 1968 Mexico City Games, U.S. track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who had won gold and bronze, respectively, raised their fists while standing on the podium, a gesture symbolizing Black power and the larger human rights movement. The image sparked attention and a global conversation, and has since become an iconic moment in world history.

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Nine: The estimated cost of the 2024 Summer Games is $9 billion.

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Owens: American track and field athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Owens helped the U.S. set a world record of 39.8 seconds in the 4x100-meter relay.

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Painting: A part of the Olympics until the 1948 London Games, when the International Olympic Committee concluded art competitions didn't reflect the amateur status of the Games, since almost all contestants were professionals. A non-competitive art and cultural festival is now associated with each Olympics.

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Qualification: The process by which athletes and teams earn the right to compete in the Olympic Games. An estimated 10,500 athletes are set to participate at the 2024 Paris Olympics, up 340% from the 3,089 who participated at the last Paris Games in 1924.

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Rings: The Olympic logo of five interlocking rings represents the unity of the five inhabited continents (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania) and the athletes from around the world.

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Seven: Consecutive Summer Games that Team USA has won the most medals of any country. The last time the U.S. didn't earn the most medals was in Barcelona in 1992 (the Unified Team of the former Soviet Union finished first).

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Three: Number of times Paris has hosted the Summer Olympics (1900, 1924 and 2024)

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Usain: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt captivated the world at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, breaking three world records and winning three gold medals (100 meters, 200 meters and 4x100-meter relay).

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Vera: Gymnast Vera Caslavska, of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, is the last repeat gold medalist in the individual women's all-around in 1964 and 1968. American Suni Lee looks to defend her 2020 gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Warriors: Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr is next in line to lead the U.S. men's basketball team at the Olympics. Kerr looks to become the fifth coach to win an NBA title and an Olympic gold medal, joining Gregg Popovich (2020), Rudy Tomjanovich (2000), Lenny Wilkens (1996) and Chuck Daly (1992).

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Xiaopeng: One of China's most successful gymnasts of all time, Li Xiaopeng has won five total medals, including four gold. He won gold medals in the men's parallel bars and men's team all-around in both the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Youth Olympics: Held for athletes between the ages of 15 and 18, the fourth edition of the Summer Youth Olympic Games will take place in Dakar, Senegal, in 2026.

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Zero: The number of Olympic gold medals won by Novak Djokovic. Of the men's and women's tennis players in the Open era to win at least 20 Grand Slam titles, Djokovic is the only one never to win gold at the Olympic Games in either singles or doubles play.

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Ayush department launches 6500-page dictionary for ancient medical terms - Deccan Herald - Dictionary

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How to Add Words to Your Mac's Dictionary - Lifehacker - Dictionary

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In the internet age, language evolves faster than your computer's dictionary. Even if you only speak English, new words such as "rizz," "girlboss," and "microtransaction" keep popping up. No matter how versed you are in slang, these words can definitely still mess up your typing experience on your Mac.

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Even if you disable autocorrect, you'll still have to put up with little red lines underneath words your Mac doesn't recognize. But you can get around this by adding words you use regularly to your Mac's dictionary. This will keep your computer from bothering you when you're feeling extra skibidi. 

How to add words to the Mac's dictionary

The next time your Mac tries to autocorrect or underline a word you want to keep as-is, select the offending word, right-click it, and choose Learn Spelling. This will add the word to your Mac's dictionary. This option will only appear when you select a word that's not in your computer's dictionary. Once you ask the Mac to learn a spelling, it will stop bothering you about that word. Note that this option may not always appear in all apps, but if you paste the text into any writing app, it'll appear for sure.

This feature has been in macOS over a decade, but a Mastodon post by John Gruber recently highlighted another method for adding words to your Mac's dictionary. To do this, open Finder and press Command-Shift-G. Now paste ~/Library/GroupContainers/group.com.apple.AppleSpell/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary in the form and hit Return. This will take you to the dictionary folder. 

If you've already added words to your dictionary using the Learn Spelling option, they will appear in a file in this folder. That file is called en if your Mac's default language is English, but it may use a different file name for other languages. Open this file and add one word per line to quickly create your own dictionary. Don't forget to save the file before closing it. Manually adding words is a bit buggy and it doesn't always help your Mac learn the right spellings, which is why I recommend using the Learn Spelling option for best results.

This is a great tip for everyone, but especially for multilingual people who use their Mac to send messages in different languages. In many countries where English isn't the first language, it's quite common to send bilingual messages that have a few words from English and a few from a different language. If that's you, then you can use this feature to add common words from your language to your Mac's dictionary and stop getting bothered about them.

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How Black's Law Dictionary Gets Made: Bryan A. Garner - Original Jurisdiction | David Lat - Dictionary

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks!

What’s the most widely cited legal book in the world? If you guessed Black’s Law Dictionary, then congratulate yourself. Henry Campbell Black published the first edition in 1891, and today it’s a must-have for every lawyer and law student. I even make an appearance in Black’s as the coiner of the term “benchslap,” defined as “a judge’s sharp rebuke of counsel, a litigant, or perhaps another judge.”

Who decides whether a term has gained sufficient traction to make it into Black’s? That would be Bryan Garner, the prominent legal lexicographer, lawyer, and legal-writing expert. In the latest episode of the Original Jurisdiction podcast, he explains how he and his colleagues determine whether a neologism has made the cut.

This is actually a bonus episode of the podcast, since I posted an episode last week and I’ll have another episode next week. What’s the occasion? Today marks the publication of the twelfth edition of Black’s Law Dictionary. If you’re looking for a graduation or back-to-school gift for a law student, or maybe a Father’s Day gift for a #LawDad in your life, order your copy today.

Thanks to Bryan for joining me, and congratulations to him and his team on the latest edition of Black’s Law Dictionary.

Show Notes:

• Bryan A. Garner bio, LawProse

• Black’s Law Dictionary (12th ed.), Amazon

• Black’s Law Dictionary: An Interview with Bryan A. Garner, by David Lat for Above the Law

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Bellefonte Elks Lodge continue dictionary program | News, Sports, Jobs - The Express - Lock Haven Express - Dictionary

Bellefonte Elks Lodge #1094, through a generous donation from Ed Evock and Carol Hendershot, continued its Dictionary Program for Lodge Year 2024-2025. In cooperation with St. John’s Catholic School, Loyal Knight Evan Edwards and Exalted Ruler Terree Michel presented dictionaries to Mrs. Ickes third grade class at St. John’s. Shown here with the class members are back row, from left, Loyal Knight Edwards, teacher Mrs. Ickes, and Exalted Ruler Terree Michel.

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick Perform the Couple's Dictionary Trend with Adorable Results - Yahoo New Zealand News - Dictionary

Married since 1988, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are clearly fluent in their own language

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick in 2023

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are fluent in their own language.

Married since 1988, the two actors gave a demonstration of how well they know each other in a video shared in a joint Instagram post on Tuesday, June 4.

In the adorable video, Bacon, 65, followed a recent social media trend by quizzing his wife, 58, on the distinct terms only they use. “So we tried the Couple Dictionary trend, and no the mosquitos were not telling me the answers," Sedgwick captioned the post.

Related: Watch Kevin Bacon Make the 3-Ingredient Pancakes He Cooks for Wife Kyra Sedgwick on Sundays (Exclusive) 

Giving Sedgwick “clues on a word that we use at least weekly during our marriage,” the Footloose actor laughed while introducing the game. “What do we do when something is overwhelming and a total bummer?” he asked.

“Can it be a sound?” asked the Born on the Fourth of July actress, which Bacon confirmed. Sedgwick proceeded to nail the “Uh?” sound.

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Round two was a word “for when you’re worried that your hair is falling out or you’re having a bad hair day,” announced Bacon. “You take a shower and then you’re looking in the mirror and you think that you have less of something than you had last week.”

“This is a little ditty that we like to call ‘hair-anoid,’” responded Sedgwick. “Not paranoid, ‘hair-anoid.’ And it means that you’re paranoid that your hair doesn’t look good.”

Laughing and running her hands through her hair, she added, “We both suffer from this problem!”

Bacon responded: “And tonight, it’s real.”

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick in 2023

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The cute couple, who are going 35 years strong and share son Travis, 34, and daughter Sosie, 32, have posted plenty of other videos offering glimpses of their family life, including celebrating birthday wishes and dancing for a good cause. A recent example: pranking a napping Bacon with a reminder of his grisly onscreen death in 1980’s Friday the 13th.

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Bacon and Sedgwick originally met on the set of 1987’s Lemon Sky and have worked together since. They'll next share the screen in the upcoming film Connescence.

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A Word Please | Columnists | theworldlink.com - Coos Bay World - Dictionary

This week I learned that pretty much everyone who’s ever opined about the word “peruse” was wrong, kind of. And the people who corrected the people who opined wrongly were also wrong, kind of. And that I, myself, never quite understood the real deal with “peruse,” even though I thought I had it all figured out.

Here’s the most common way I see “peruse” used these days: “Peruse the charming boutiques." “Peruse the delicious menu options.” “Peruse the aisles.” In other words, I see “peruse” used to mean “browse.”

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A Word Please | Columnists | theworldlink.com - Coos Bay World - Dictionary

This week I learned that pretty much everyone who’s ever opined about the word “peruse” was wrong, kind of. And the people who corrected the people who opined wrongly were also wrong, kind of. And that I, myself, never quite understood the real deal with “peruse,” even though I thought I had it all figured out.

Here’s the most common way I see “peruse” used these days: “Peruse the charming boutiques." “Peruse the delicious menu options.” “Peruse the aisles.” In other words, I see “peruse” used to mean “browse.”

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Let's (try to) end the debate: Does biweekly mean twice a week or twice a month? - CBS News - Dictionary

A dictionary search for biweekly likely won't clear up confusion about how often a biweekly meeting is being held. 

Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and the Cambridge Dictionary each offer two different definitions for the adjective: occurring twice a week or occurring every two weeks. The language conundrum goes beyond biweekly; bimonthly and biannual also have competing definitions. Is the bimonthly meeting twice a month or is it every two months? Is the biannual family reunion twice a year or once every two years? 

The different definitions have left people — even the ones working at dictionaries — scratching their heads for a long time. 

"This is absolutely a problem of English, just generally, we just don't have a good tool for this," Merriam-Webster editor Peter Sokolowski said. "It is odd that bi, which means two and twice, then becomes confused with itself. It's an unusual circumstance linguistically."

People search biweekly, bimonthly and biannual on the Merriam-Webster website often, Sokolowski said.

"A lot of the tension that we get is for new words or slang words or things, but actually, it's this kind of word that is the bread and butter of the dictionary," Sokolowski said. "You know, these ambiguities of English that send people to the dictionary day in and day out, year in and year out."

The Associated Press, which guides the style choices of many news organizations, took a stand on the definition it uses. It says biweekly means every other week and that semiweekly means twice a week.

In day-to-day life, Sokolowski advises ensuring you provide context if you plan to say biweekly, bimonthly or biannually. Or just work around it — say twice a week, twice a month and so on. Laurel MacKenzie, associate professor with the NYU Department of Linguistics, agreed.

"Sometimes you really just have to paraphrase because it can be totally ambiguous without context," she said.

Michael Adams, an Indiana University English professor, said bringing back the word fortnight, a period of 14 days, and the word fortnightly, something occurring once every 14 days, would solve a lot of the problems with biweekly. 

"So if we're looking for a solution to the problem, let's bring fortnight and fortnightly back into use," Adams said. "And then we don't have to worry about biweekly or bimonthly meaning two things, or about inserting semiweekly or semimonthly which users clearly, from the historical record, do not prefer."

A review of the Corpus of Historical American English, which can be used to determine how frequently a word is used compared to other words, shows fortnight and fortnightly have been used more frequently than biweekly and that biweekly, in turn, has been used more often than semiweekly, Adams said. 

"That's the result of fortnight being an old English word so well established historically that people saw no reason to use biweekly to mean every two weeks," Adams said.

While fortnight and fortnightly were much more frequently used historically than biweekly, their usage began to peter out a little bit after the 1950s, Adams said. 

And though the ambiguous definition of biweekly has been confusing people for a long time, dictionaries haven't decided to stick to just a single definition. 

"The basic issue is that language isn't math," Sokolowski said. 

Instituting a language change and getting people to follow along with it is challenging, MacKenzie said. When language does change, it's usually to be more equitable in how terms are phrased. 

"It's very hard for anybody to litigate or legislate language," she said. 

Aliza Chasan

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza covers trending news, often focusing on crime and politics.

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INKONIC DESIGN Illustrations reimagine iconic design objects

Inkonic Design is a series of six illustrations by Federico Babina halfway between hieroglyphic and primitive drawing, reducing a series of iconic objects to a formal minimum in order to achieve a sign-like abstraction. The lines and shapes that wander across the surface of the sheet suggest forms, elements, outlines, and silhouettes, but refuse to converge into complete or recognizable figures, the important thing is the overall composition and not the individual elements that shape it. A set of seemingly enigmatic signs dance across the sheet like an interconnected doodle at once primitive and controlled.

Inkonic Design by Federico Babina fuses hieroglyphic and primitive drawing styles | Inkonic bookshelf

Federico Babina forms a series of linear characters and symbols

These illustrations compose a series of design hieroglyphics with iconological and semiotic values; a sort of runic alphabet whose aim is to find coherence between the image and the graphic sign, to imagine a visual dictionary of design, to imagine writing in images. Six images illustrate an abacus of ideograms, a kind of writing of the unconscious that tries to communicate a concept and an idea. The artist forms an expressive, synthetic, representative language, where a series of characters use the graphic transposition of an object or concept. Chairs, tables, objects, bookcases, lamps, and architecture generate a visual grammar that pays graphic homage to the paintings of Paul Klee and Joan Miró and Alvin Lustig’s ‘Incantation.’ ‘A line is a dot that went for a walk’ quote by Paul Klee inspires Federico Babina (more here).

the series consists of six illustrations that abstract iconic objects to their formal minimum | Inkonic tables

these illustrations function as design hieroglyphics with iconological and semiotic values | Inkonic chair

graphic transpositions of objects and concepts form a unique visual grammar in Babina’s series | Inkonic lamps

Babina’s series imagines a runic alphabet, blending graphic signs and visual coherence | Inkonic object

the six images serve as an abacus of ideograms, communicating concepts and ideas visually | Inkonic architecture

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Siblings use custom-made dictionary to guess each others' wacky catch phrases and it's absolute fun - Upworthy - Dictionary

When someone asks us to describe our sibling, 'annoying' is one of the many adjectives that pop immediately into our mind. But in some cases, that is paired with 'caring' and 'understanding.' In fact, as part of this bittersweet bond, siblings naturally make up their own vocabulary. Recently, a viral "dictionary" trend surfaced on the internet, where two friends, siblings or a couple guess the weird and unique words or phrases that only the two know about. Joining in the trend, an LA-based editor named Sean Tadlock–who goes by @sean_tadlock on TikTok–made a video with his sister, Michelle Tadlock, where the duo guessed the phrases from each others' "sibling dictionary."

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When one sibling explained the meaning of a phrase or a word, the other sibling had to find out what it was. The Tadlock siblings were so in sync with each other that they guessed everything right and instantly. The first clue Sean gave was, "This is your favorite question to ask me if I'm being an idiot." Without a second thought, Michelle responded, "Are you stupid or are you dumb?" Whenever the siblings come across something they like, they describe it as "so good" and add another "soooo good." Sean hinted, "When you call me, this is how I usually answer the phone," and Michelle replied, "Green, green, yellow," with a sassy twist to the "yellow" part.

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Michelle then asked Sean about an inside joke they shared, "When there's a light draw and we're inside, what do we say?" Struggling to hold back laughter, Sean replied, "Who opened a window?" When Sean tells their sister a story about someone and has nothing else to say at the end, they often have an ending line. As the brother hinted that it was a movie line, Michelle rightly guessed, "And now I guess she's on crack." On the other hand, Sean knew exactly how their sister ended a call - she simply said, "TT, YL." And whenever Sean described someone and said, "That's so annoying," Michelle would ask, "Who is?" The duo shared a good laugh as to how quirky and hysterical their dictionary was and the internet was amused. 

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Nearly 7 million views came in for the video and people found it both humorous and relatable. "I'm so glad I'm not the only one still quoting, 'Who opened a window?'" said @charitygracecook. "'Green green yellow' would make me cackle or hang up. No in-between," chimed in @khariahc. "I love that there's no such thing as an inside joke anymore. Keep sharing. It's so good, so good," quipped @lana_del_louiseville. 

While speaking of siblings following the social media trends, the "Hug your sibling" challenge caused quite a laugh riot. While siblings are not usually touchy-feely with each other, randomly hugging one's sibling made the person absolutely bewildered. Allie–who goes by @allieschnacky on TikTok–shared one such viral video where she went to hug her brother, which made him so scared that he tried to run away. "What are you doing? Why are you messing with me?" the brother exclaimed in shock and Allie responded, "Sibling love." Many such videos showed hilarious reactions of siblings being shocked by the unusual gesture from their brothers or sisters.

You can follow Sean Tadlock (@sean_tadlock) on TikTok for more hilarious content.

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