Latintos

Latintos stands for "language transformations in texts and open sources." The LATINTOS BLOG highlights different spellings and different meanings of words, phrases and abbreviations as well as their origin. Latintos compares words in different contexts and different languages including scientific and formal languages. Further, name construction is analyzed and applications of systematic names and nomenclature systems are monitored.

Saturday, July 8, 2017

What is a shoe dog?

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A shoe dog is a footwear expert . The term usually refers to a person dedicated to designing and fabricating shoes—and selling them. Sho...
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Friday, June 2, 2017

2-D material terms deliberately rhyming with graphene: Xenes and MXenes

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How thin can a material get? Answer: As thin as a single atomic layer is thick. That is a thickness (thinness) in the ångström or low-nan...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

Mare Mortuum, the Dead Sea

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The Dead Sea is the lowest place on the non-oceanic face of the earth: a hypersaline lake today bordered by Israel , Jordan and Palestin...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

How Mount Diablo in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area got its name

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Mount Diablo with historic, stone-built Summit Visitor Center and Devil's Pulpit (left-side, tooth-shaped monolith) Various tribal...
Friday, April 28, 2017

A strange star with various names

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The star that is dubbed KIC 8462852 in the catalog of stars surveyed by the Kepler space telescope shows a highly variable dip pattern in...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

The moniker Iraqgate

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The United States supported Iraq and dictator Saddam Hussein (officially the fifth President of Iraq) during the war against post-revolut...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

What is Content Syndication?

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Content syndication is the transfer of content from one site of publication to another. Typically, the term “content syndication” refers t...
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