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VIC VIC VIC
I noticed something interesting. The Vic in victory and victim are directly related. Victory comes from the latin verb vincere, to conquer, or to prevail Vini, Vidi, Vici. Remember? I came, I saw, I conquered. (By the way Vici is pronounced VIKI), the C is hard in Latin The verb vincere, (which also gives us the name Vincent, BTW) So, Vici, I conquered. Victus, is (The one that has been conquered) INvictus (Can not be conquered) Victum, is the supine or perfect passive partic
Dec 18, 20251 min read
The Hair You see, The Ones You Don't
You notice a hair in your food, on your plate. you freak out, you either take it out, throw it and continue eating, which is the mature thing to do. OR, you make a scene and you dramatize and you call the manager and start telling stories of this near death experience that you just encountered. Either way it doesn't matter. That reaction, or the lack of, was against what you SAW. The hair that you saw! What about hair that you haven't seen or could not see but you swallowed a
Dec 10, 20251 min read
The Art of Ruminating
I ruminate Boy do I ruminate I will be planning a trip, and I start ruminating about a rude passenger who has accidentally taken my seat. And I would stand there looking down at the passenger in a patronizing way demanding my seat. And the passenger asks politely whether he/she can sit in my seat for whatever reason, and I would refuse and demand that the passenger relinquish my seat. The whole scenario would play in my head, the passenger becomes rude and I become tough and
Nov 26, 20251 min read
Mama is Mama Because of Biology and Linguistic Efficiency
There is an elegant economy in the word "mama." It appears across languages so diverse, so geographically and culturally separated, that its persistence feels almost inevitable. Yet there's nothing accidental about it. Mama exists everywhere for a simple reason: it works. The story begins in the mouths of infants. When babies first discover their voices, they babble with open vowels and soft consonants, sounds that require minimal coordination of their still-developing vocal
Nov 3, 20252 min read
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