Saturday, February 29, 2020

Leap Day: February 29, 2020 :-)

A Leap Day, February 29, is added to the calendar during leap years. This extra day, also called Leap Year Day, makes the year 366 days long – not 365 days, like a common year.

According to an old Irish legend, or possibly history, St Brigid struck a deal with St Patrick to allow women to propose to men – and not just the other way around – every four years.
This is believed to have been introduced to balance the traditional roles of men and women in a similar way to how leap day balances the calendar.

https://www.timeanddate.com/date/leap-day.html

Friday, February 28, 2020

Movie: The Siege of Jadotville

Dialog: Something like:

You don't sacrifice queen to save pawn.

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

the theory that human languages determine the structure of the real world as perceived by human beings, rather than vice versa, and that this structure is different and incommensurable from one language to another

Whorfian hypothesis

Definition of Whorfian hypothesis
: a theory in linguistics: one's language determines one's conception of the world

Friday, February 21, 2020

Movie: Arrival. My Comments.

In the movie: Arrival -- one thing I've liked so far is that: Synopsis of their dialogs is: Certain languages have edge over other languages -- Like certain languages limit your imagination -- others don't --

Does this explain why we ace in certain domains and lag behind in others?
To be continued...