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What I actually think people pay me for is the general vibe that I cultivate. It is the feeling that they get at the end of the piece where they think to themselves, “Ah, that was fun and I feel smarter.” Crucially, it doesn’t actually matter whether readers have gotten smarter. My compensation is dependent on the cultivation of that vibe.
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
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æ (called an ash), which sounded like the “a” of “cat”;
þ (thorn), which could sound like the voiceless “th” of “thing” or the voiced “th” of “the”;
ð (eth), which was used more or less interchangeably with the þ (thorn) for those “th” sounds;
ƿ (wynn), an early “w”;
ʒ (yogh), which could sound like “y” or like the “ch” of the German ich. (For instance, “niȝth,” a Middle English spelling of “night,” sounded like “nicht.”)
The Grammarphobia Blog: Why Old English Looks So Weird
grammarphobia.com
Here is a motivational-calendar thought for you: your connectedness to the world, and to reality, is measured in crowds, not friends. If you are in a true cult, your number is 1. The more crowds you are in, and the more different they are, the more perspectives of reality you have to be able to hold in your mind, to participate in all these crowds. And the more (reasonable) ways you have of observing reality, the saner you are.
"Circling" and Nerd Society - By Curtis Yarvin
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