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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between - Patrick Foote</h1> |
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2018-11-30 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/etymology/">#etymology</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/patrick-foote/">#patrick foote</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41224588-the-origin-of-names-words-and-everything-in-between">GoodReads summary</a>: |
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Explore the world of names: What is something that literally everything in |
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existence has in common? It all has a name! With The Origin of Names, Words and |
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Everything in Between, you can learn the origins of these names. From countries |
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and cities to toys and animals to even planets, learn the etymology of |
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interesting words in a fun and entertaining way.</p> |
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★★★☆☆ |
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<p>Etymology is a fun -- or, at least, interesting -- area: The origin of words.</p> |
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<p>And yes, that's what this book is about: words and their meanings. Five (or |
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six) sections, each with 10 words and their origins. Kinda.</p> |
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<p>There is one glaring problem with the book: Because etymology is somewhat |
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boring ("hey, this word, came from this source, which is based on this word, |
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which means this"), the author decided to put some fun in it, which is ok in a |
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certain dose, but gets annoying when it is too much. And it <em>is</em> too much.</p> |
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<p>Also, there are some problems with the editing of the book. Wrong punctuation, |
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words disconnected from the rest of the phrase... There is even an "there" |
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which should be "their".</p> |
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<p>It is not a bad book per se, it's just the the colorful notes put too much |
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color in it and it surely needs a very good revision.</p> |
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