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Ethan Longhenrydeverbovitae
2025-05-25

We are called to ever strive and pursue the ways of God in Christ through the Spirit.

If we become , we endanger our spiritual health.

Avoiding Spiritual Complacency
deverbovitae.com/articles/comp

Alliterative/Endless KnotAllEndlessKnot@toot.community
2025-04-30

The surprisingly connected origins of "plagiarism", "flag", and "complacent". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #plagiarism #flag #complacent

youtube.com/shorts/O7CC8sAz4UI

Alliterative/Endless KnotAllEndlessKnot@toot.community
2025-02-17

February 19th is #PreventPlagiarismDay so the #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is PLAGIARISM/FLAG/COMPLACENT #wotd #plagiarism #complacent #AI

Does AI send up red flags for you about plagiarism or are you complacent about it? Turns out the etymologies are just as hard to determine. Plagiarism comes from Latin plagiarius which meant “kidnapper” but was already being used in the sense of “literary thief”, from the verb plagiare “to kidnap”, ultimately from plaga meaning “snare, hunting net” but also “open expanse, territory”, and this might in fact be the base sense, as it has been suggested that the word might come from the Proto-Indo-European root *plak- “to be flat” from the idea of “something extended”. This root lies behind Old Norse flaga “stone slab” (with the /p/ becoming an /f/ due to the Grimm’s Law sound change), which gives us English flag as in flagstone, but it’s possible the other English word flag came from the “flat stone” one from the idea of it also being square and flat (unless it instead is just an imitative word of something flapping in the wind). Also possibly from the PIE root *plak- is Latin placere “to please, be agreeable” from the idea of being calm like the flat sea, which when combined with the prefix com- in an intensifying sense produced Latin complacere “to be very pleasing”, eventually giving us English complacent. So three uncertain etymologies to run up the flagpole: what would AI say about them?
Joseph Lim :mastodon:joseph11lim
2024-10-18

Most Singaporeans rate China’s above US, prefer it as partner:
"More Singaporeans based in the city state & abroad believe ’s influence in Southeast has grown in recent years cf w , according to findings of a new survey.. Leong CH, one of the researchers behind the poll, told SCMP the numbers showed among some on certain issues.. identifying areas where might be "
scmp.com/week-asia/politics/ar

Alliterative/Endless KnotAllEndlessKnot@toot.community
2024-02-19

February 19th is #PreventPlagiarismDay so the #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is PLAGIARISM/FLAG/COMPLACENT #wotd #plagiarism #flag #complacent #ai

Does AI send up red flags for you about plagiarism or are you complacent about it? Turns out the etymologies are just as hard to determine. Plagiarism comes from Latin plagiarius which meant “kidnapper” but was already being used in the sense of “literary thief”, from the verb plagiare “to kidnap”, ultimately from plaga meaning “snare, hunting net” but also “open expanse, territory”, and this might in fact be the base sense, as it has been suggested that the word might come from the Proto-Indo-European root *plak- “to be flat” from the idea of “something extended”. This root lies behind Old Norse flaga “stone slab” (with the /p/ becoming an /f/ due to the Grimm’s Law sound change), which gives us English flag as in flagstone, but it’s possible the other English word flag came from the “flat stone” one from the idea of it also being square and flat (unless it instead is just an imitative word of something flapping in the wind). Also possibly from the PIE root *plak- is Latin placere “to please, be agreeable” from the idea of being calm like the flat sea, which when combined with the prefix com- in an intensifying sense produced Latin complacere “to be very pleasing”, eventually giving us English complacent. So three uncertain etymologies to run up the flagpole: what would AI say about them?
Ramesh #NotGoingBackrameshgupta
2023-12-27

⬆️ @srijit@akko.chir.rs @bengali_convo @srijit@mas.to

>> অমানবিককরণ
>> মানুষের মতো নির্মম ভাবে গণহত্যা করা তাদের পক্ষে কি সম্ভব?

আপনি মানুষকে পশুর সাথে এবং পশুদের সাথে মানুষের তুলনা করছেন, যখন তারা আপনার পছন্দের ভিত্তিতে মোটেও তুলনাযোগ্য নয় 🙂

Peace can last for 3 generations max (90-100 years).

As older generations die, younger ones become complacent and fail to learn from history.

I wrote about Young > Ignorant > > > Hope ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

Ramesh #NotGoingBackrameshgupta
2023-12-25

⬆️ @RickiTarr

This has to ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

Young > Ignorant > > > Hope

Ramesh #NotGoingBackrameshgupta
2023-12-22

⬆️ @shoq

can last for maximum 3 generations (~90-100 years)

We are somewhere between stage 2 and 3 in the , punctuated with hope.

Young > Ignorant > > ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

forrestburu5@mstdn.games
2023-09-14

amazing how you can be using a device for so long then one day #NO

you will no longer be using that device; sure, you could repair it but why? sure you may have insurance: but not I

it always goes this way; i have the phone, one day after its long journey it #falls (usually doing something i shouldn't be doing with it, #Complacent)

it #breaks
give up the ghost

"Some #NewPHONE goes sauntering away, and I'm dead."

#DoctorWho #DoctorPHONE

Alliterative/Endless KnotAllEndlessKnot@toot.community
2023-09-04

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is PLAGIARISM/FLAG/COMPLACENT #wotd #plagiarism #flag #complacent #BackToSchool

Does AI send up red flags for you about plagiarism or are you complacent about it? Turns out the etymologies are just as hard to determine. Plagiarism comes from Latin plagiarius which meant “kidnapper” but was already being used in the sense of “literary thief”, from the verb plagiare “to kidnap”, ultimately from plaga meaning “snare, hunting net” but also “open expanse, territory”, and this might in fact be the base sense, as it has been suggested that the word might come from the Proto-Indo-European root *plak- “to be flat” from the idea of “something extended”. This root lies behind Old Norse flaga “stone slab” (with the /p/ becoming an /f/ due to the Grimm’s Law sound change), which gives us English flag as in flagstone, but it’s possible the other English word flag came from the “flat stone” one from the idea of it also being square and flat (unless it instead is just an imitative word of something flapping in the wind). Also possibly from the PIE root *plak- is Latin placere “to please, be agreeable” from the idea of being calm like the flat sea, which when combined with the prefix com- in an intensifying sense produced Latin complacere “to be very pleasing”, eventually giving us English complacent. So three uncertain etymologies to run up the flagpole: what would AI say about them?
heliceshelices@mastodon.xyz
2023-05-16

Modern people are overly #complacent and lack vigilance when it comes to defending their own freedoms from government overreach
@ZubyMusic

John EarleSkembear
2023-05-08

If Labour won’t get rid of fascist Tory laws, here are some people who will [VIDEO] | Vox Political
voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/05

Act

Spaceflight 🚀spaceflight@techhub.social
2023-03-07

#WashingtonPost 📆 June 22, 2022 #ULA (United Launch Alliance) - a #company that had enjoyed a #monopoly 🤑 for years and had gotten #complacent. #Not having to #compete, it extracted #enormous #sums 💰 from the #Pentagon, which didn’t flinch at the #exorbitant #prices as long as the company kept up its #launch #success washingtonpost.com/technology/

#LaunchCost #SpaceCompany #SpaceAgency

J.K. UllrichWildTypeWriter@universeodon.com
2022-11-26

@tessbarnes funny, I have body art to commemorate that very sentiment. A goshawk swooped me in the park last year, and rather than flee, I hung around for #photography. Earned a talon nick on the ear. I got a piercing beside the tiny scar as a reminder not to get #complacent about #nature!

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