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I learned a new food word today!

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Alex

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Flavedo was M-W's Word of the Day on May 28. It's defined as 

 

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the colored outer layer of the rind of a citrus fruit

 

I also learned its literal flip side, albedo, which is 

 

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the whitish, spongy inner part of the rind of a citrus fruit

 

I knew that word only for its primary definition: 

 

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the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body (such as the moon or a cloud)

 

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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Yes interesting, but if most people don't know it, and language is how we communicate - is it useful.? I'll stick with zest and pith.

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30 minutes ago, heidih said:

Yes interesting, but if most people don't know it, and language is how we communicate - is it useful.? I'll stick with zest and pith.

Me too.

Darienne

 

learn, learn, learn...

 

We live in hope. 

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Margaret Pilgrim

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2 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Whenever I learn new words I tried to imagine using them in conversations. I draw a complete blank on these.

Not to worry.    That's the response you'll get from others when you do use them.

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