Comments on: QUIZ: How well do you know your -nyms? http://blog.oup.com/2010/08/nyms-quiz-2/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: OUPblog » Blog Archive » RUE? = Are you ready? http://blog.oup.com/2010/08/nyms-quiz-2/#comment-169071 OUPblog » Blog Archive » RUE? = Are you ready? Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:38:57 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=10268#comment-169071 [...] Alexander Humez is the co-author of Short Cuts: A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication with his brother, Nicholas Humez, and Rob Flynn. The Humez brothers also collaborated on Latin for People, Alpha to Omega, A B C Et Cetera, Zero to Lazy Eight (with Joseph Maguire), and On the Dot. Click here to take the -nym quiz from Humez’s previous blog post. [...] [...] Alexander Humez is the co-author of Short Cuts: A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication with his brother, Nicholas Humez, and Rob Flynn. The Humez brothers also collaborated on Latin for People, Alpha to Omega, A B C Et Cetera, Zero to Lazy Eight (with Joseph Maguire), and On the Dot. Click here to take the -nym quiz from Humez’s previous blog post. [...]

]]> By: The Word Guy http://blog.oup.com/2010/08/nyms-quiz-2/#comment-168290 The Word Guy Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:54:17 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=10268#comment-168290 As I get older, I come across more and more life examples that reinforce either (a) how little I know or (b) how little I remember. This wonderful list is yet another confirming instance. I "knew" about 10%, "recalled" another 5% after seeing them, and found the rest to be either totally new or totally expunged from my memory - assuming they were ever there in the first place. By the time I'm on my death bed, I suspect I'll reach the ultimate conclusion that I do, in fact, know nothing whatsoever, and that my disappearance from the world will have zero impact on the cosmos - apart from the short-term distress visited on my immediate friends and family who, in the grand scheme of the universe, statistically count as nothing. I look forward to more of these soul-destroying quizzes that remind me of my mortality, inadequacy, and lack of intellect. Now, where's my mind-numbing bottle of 18-year-old Glenlivet single malt... ;) As I get older, I come across more and more life examples that reinforce either (a) how little I know or (b) how little I remember. This wonderful list is yet another confirming instance. I “knew” about 10%, “recalled” another 5% after seeing them, and found the rest to be either totally new or totally expunged from my memory – assuming they were ever there in the first place.

By the time I’m on my death bed, I suspect I’ll reach the ultimate conclusion that I do, in fact, know nothing whatsoever, and that my disappearance from the world will have zero impact on the cosmos – apart from the short-term distress visited on my immediate friends and family who, in the grand scheme of the universe, statistically count as nothing.

I look forward to more of these soul-destroying quizzes that remind me of my mortality, inadequacy, and lack of intellect. Now, where’s my mind-numbing bottle of 18-year-old Glenlivet single malt… ;)

]]> By: Tweets that mention OUPblog » Blog Archive » QUIZ: How well do you know your -nyms? -- Topsy.com http://blog.oup.com/2010/08/nyms-quiz-2/#comment-168286 Tweets that mention OUPblog » Blog Archive » QUIZ: How well do you know your -nyms? -- Topsy.com Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:19:33 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=10268#comment-168286 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by lazygal, Lauren, Lauren, Lauren, Phi Beta Kappa and others. Phi Beta Kappa said: This is pretty difficult, but Latin and Greek help! From @OUPBlogUSA QUIZ: How well do you know your -nyms? http://bit.ly/9rHNiC [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by lazygal, Lauren, Lauren, Lauren, Phi Beta Kappa and others. Phi Beta Kappa said: This is pretty difficult, but Latin and Greek help! From @OUPBlogUSA QUIZ: How well do you know your -nyms? http://bit.ly/9rHNiC [...]

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