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.

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

A cross-linguistic jellyfish vocabulary

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Any language used by coastal and seafaring people can be expected to have one or more words for jellyfish, since jellies are found in ocean...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

What are Lessepsian migrants?

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Lessepsian migrants are invasive marine species that are “traveling” via the Suez Canal by water flow or maritime transport from the Red...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

One of the once richest gold mining communities in California founded by two German brothers

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Dutch Flat school painting in   Museum Dutch Flat was founded during the Gold Rush era in 1851 by Joseph and Charles Dornbach [1]. Al...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Washoe County's Deadman's Creek named for two ranch partners found dead in their cabin

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Trail crossing Deadman's Creek Deadman's Creek is located in Washoe Lake State Park , Nevada . Half a mile west of the park...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Alexandrite, a rare form of the mineral chrysoberyl named for Tsar Alexander Ⅱ

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Discovered in the 1830s in the Ural Mountains in Russia, the mineral alexandrite was named to honor Czar Alexander Ⅱ [1-3]. Alexandrite ...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Felsina → Bononia → Bologna

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The city of Felsina was founded by Etruscans over 2,500 years ago on the edge of the Po Plain. This is the site of modern Bologna in the ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

What is TEIRESIAS?

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TEIRESIAS is a supercomputer of the European Union , used for criminal investigation services . It is the latest iteration of Terry , whic...
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