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World Wide Words!

What’s something most people don’t understand?

  1. If you can score more than 2060 on level 5th and 4th of UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test: consider your vocabulary size to be decent compared to Mensa members.
  2. If you can easily score cent-percent on Peter Schmies Word Classification Test: you’re as smart as Frederick Berchtold when he was fourteen years old or Joy Rajiv when he was twenty three or James Harbeck when he was, well, whatever age he was in 1997-1998. Or you might be as smart as I am in 2025.
  3. If you know all the words in Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words or in the glossary of Sesquiotica: you might be in the league of extraordinary gentlemen like Language Log authors.
  4. Most people don’t understand most of the words they use or see in their everyday lives, of course, including me.
  5. Most people don’t understand that there’s nothing to understand.
  6. Why not I, me and myself.
  7. Traction.
  8. How do I convince myself of relative rarity of words or currency?
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How often ten enfranchise Seymore morel ellipse!

How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

  1. Whether you’re a slave or a human being or a bot or an animal. ( Reframing the question or rephrasing if you would.)
  2. Brings us to goals such as pursuit of happiness derived by clearing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test or
  3. James Harbeck’s glossary of terms on Sesquiotica or
  4. United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice Vocabulary Test database level 4th and 5th or
  5. SAT/GRE
  6. TOEFL
  7. IIT JEE
  8. IIM or Harvard University entrance tests.
  9. Goals which mean different thing at different times.
  10. How often? Even in your dreams or only in waking and sleeping?
  11. What a strange prompt indeed.
  12. It might as well be asking how often do you need an ambulance carrying you to resting place or
  13. Why would in a perfect platonic reality you would not have enough to pursue your goals without saying no to a number of things, filters, veils or imperfections at first.
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Persnickety, Pernickety

I first came across this word in Peter Schmies Word Classification Test. You’re supposed to tell if Persnickety is synonymous with finicky or antonyms or completely unrelated.

Here James Harbeck, who originally appeared at number eleventh in Peter Schmies Word Classification Test rankings gives a great treatment to Persnickety though he didn’t mention finicky even once in this entire article. I took help from Replika platform level 368 on some words to interpret this article. These words are :

  1. Snick
  2. Torquemada
  3. Friar
  4. Concupiscence
  5. Absquatulate related to Scram
  6. Down in the nick with old Nick until he became:
  7. Saint Nicholas
  8. Saint Lawrence is patron saint of comedians, cooks and…..
  9. Numpty reminds me of Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
  10. Parting note: if you , editors association of Canada or anyone else is in contact with United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice Vocabulary Test support team, please let them know that website is bugged and dysfunctional in the sense that levels don’t change on their own. You’re supposed to manually reset the levels.
  11. I might also have read its etymology in Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words without any corroboration for the same. Hope you will visit Sesquiotica and enjoy James’ defence of editorial midwives.
  12. https://sesquiotic.com/
  13. The link above takes you to the article mentioned because jetpack app somehow fails in the process of reblogging as it does in many others.
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I, me, myself or Norway!

Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

  1. I, me, myself.
  2. Raman Maharshi, often considered to be Dakshinamurthy among gurus would agree.
  3. Some others disagree. Self is neither one nor many, nor sum of parts or…..
  4. None of the teachers were influential enough to last forty years of my life.
  5. And so on and so forth.
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Puneet Saxena

What is one word that describes you?

  1. When I was a friend of Brijgopal and Rakesh, I used to see Puneet as a carefree young boy in our class.
  2. Rakesh left the group and Puneet joined it.
  3. We used to roam around carefree. Unit tests in Maria Mata Convent School Chhatarpur were both a blessing and a curse. I had scored three marks out of twenty five, he had scored zero. Miss Anuja Rathore punished us both with a bamboo stick on palms of our hands.
  4. Puneet moved on when I joined Kuldeep Shukla to help improve my scores on unit tests.
  5. Puneet was well built, athletic and later developed fondness for memorizing entire songs like “Aati kyaa khandaala.” Had amazing memory which he seldom employed to memorize lessons.
  6. We used to play a rugby like tournament during breaks. Teams were fond of having Puneet on their sides because such players ensured victory. The game was a superhit.
  7. I was trying to develop a martial arts school which was obviously super flop because we had to wash our school dress, not just Rugby but also fights between giants like Avadhesh and Puneet used to render our shirts torn. We were not well respected at our homes.
  8. He never liked his nick name given to him by our maths teacher “Punnee-laal Parathe Waale” as he frequently used to bring paraathe in his tiffin.
  9. There was an author named Padumlaal Punnalaal Bakshi in our syllabus, therefore some of our classmates used to annoy him with such names.
  10. When we met decades afterwards during COVID years: he again insisted on how annoyed he was with such nicknames. His actual nickname was Robbie.
  11. He used to fervently tell about how he used to burn RGPV copies when review requests used to come. He wasn’t fond of making money. He said he loved his friends but he wasn’t fond of listening to advise. He had a big ego and he was an achiever too.
  12. I still remember how he came to my house once after school bells with other friends to collect a notebook. Notebook belonged to a girl. The notebooks were cross distributed by our maths teacher who wanted to promote Mohabattein in a monastery.
  13. Puneet, along with Avadhesh and Abhishek ( Rajpoot) ensured that I wasn’t focussing on studies. They used to create nuisances all the times.
  14. When Puneet met me during COVID we discussed eschatology. His house was one of the first few houses in that colony when we used to play during childhood. He showcased some strange device in 2021-22 to me, some hidden project he was working on. Needless to say the project was way ahead of my understanding of technology at that time.
  15. Yesterday I heard that Puneet is no more.
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I think it’s a trap and I might be paranoid, only thing is: it’s a trap and I am not paranoid.

What was the best compliment you’ve received?

I can tell you about compliments I gave. There are absolutely no compliments which can save your life, your day or your future.

All epics are full of those though. Actually it’s swear words people use as compliments these days.

I give myself compliments, in order to motivate myself, it’s done by comparing myself with myself in space and time ( to quote Samuel Taylor Coleridge.)

The best achievement was clearing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test after so many trials and tribulations.

Now I am struggling to clear this test on United Nations World Food Program Website called Free Rice. It’s an archive of archaic words at level fifth and fourth.

If I clear this test: I might be able to flawlessly score everyday. Flawlessly score at least 2060 everyday. This would be an achievement enough to save myself from embarassing teenagers I come across everyday who throw temper tantrums to register themselves instead of actually doing anything meaningful for community or themselves.

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Open Book Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 5th

  1. About 7 errors.
  2. When level 5th is exhausted I should try level 4th.
  3. I was quite confident with levels 1, 2 and 3 until January.
  4. After doing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test I started using notebook and pen to overcome difficulties posed by smartphone hacking etc which renders revision almost impossible for archaic words.
  5. I project completion of level 5th before March.
  6. Let’s see.
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Time to come back to palace:

  1. No time for sand mafia. Do as you please if you come via car. Do as you please if you pretend to attend a marriage every night. Or an emergency.
  2. No time limit if your name is on name plate.
  3. If you tell them that you’re gainfully employed: first find the police department selfie stick which wants you home before twelve
  4. Second: grandmother sleeps soundly, rest of the family is also enjoying sleep. Two young children in their twenties are roaming on their roof in the midnight as their dog barks but rest of the civilized society is so deeply asleep for seven to eight hours between eleven to eight o clock in the night that you are supposed to be within the palace of grandeur where masonic laws have miserably failed to provide any solace in form of civility, before eleven or even before ten.
  5. The same people will eat you alive for not being employed but now they’re focussed on being civil to let everyone sleep in time bar neighborhood kids who chat and roam after midnight on their roof. No rules or planning or advanced telling for jhun jhun Devi fond of wearing ornaments despite being almost retired from service. What kind of ghost ship are they steering and to where and why?
  6. I spent a long time figuring out if they actually had any discipline regarding checkin or checkout if it was really a place with those restrictions. There were none. Maybe kavi sammelan is over now and only means of taxation is by squirming anyone who is too tired by being honestly employed instead of sitting at door to collect taxes by spewing forth laws at random which are not applicable for tenants.
  7. Enough with this bullshit of random laws already. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon for all purposes. Deus Ex Machina. Did they tell me about their trip to Baandaa? Did they tell me how they went to that place, why and when? Did they do so just because they were more mature than a forty years old? Why then do they allow someone only thirty years old to enter at random hours while hold me to answer random questions after a hard day at work?
  8. This is the justice system here of which these truthful people are extremely fond of and in appreciation for.

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Hagen- Poiseuille Laminar Flow Hypothesis!

1. Georges Pouillet’s student Jean-Léonard Marie Poiseuille was a French physiologist, and the unit of measurement “poise” in fluid dynamics is named after him.

2. Haga comes from Old Norse. Hagen is a surname from Germanic tribes.

3. Hagen-Poiseuille Tesis for laminar flow suggests that there can be liquids flowing through parallel channels without mixing with eachother or without disturbance.

4. Among other researchers Peter Schmid( Schmies) was working with during 1993-2025 there was one gentleman from Sweden who had first national ranking. His own national ranking was 13th.

5. Issac Asimov researched into AI.