WOTW #8

This is probably number 8, anyway. Who even knows?

Here's a bit of philosophy: Noumenon
(I'm taking this from Webster's New World Dictionary BTW)

n, pl. noumena
In Kantian philosophy, an object reached by intellectual intuition, without the aid of the senses.

A little philosophy never hurt anyone. Except for egos, dignity, and the like. Philosophers making you look like a fool have a tendency to do that, after all.

Oh, I almost forgot (or to be precise, I did, and I'm editing the post retroactively). I've got a few pictures for my fantasy that I'll upload as soon as I can. My scanner is a bit indisposed.

WOTW #7

Up for lucky number 7:
Pareidolia (ˌpæraɪˈdəʊlɪə)
— n
the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features
[C20: from para- ⁴  + eidolon ]


This is exactly how I feel about the "evidence" for evolution. The evidence is only peceived connections, no actual solid evidence. Whether evolution is  pareidolious (I don't actually know if that's how it's properly conjugated or not) or not, it's why I don't really believe it.

WOTW #6

This word is number 6 I believe.

ver·nac·u·lar

 

[ver-nak-yuh-ler, vuh-nak-]

–adjective

1.

(of language) native or indigenous ( opposed to literary  or learned).

2.

expressed or written in the native language of a place, asliterary works: a vernacular poem.

3.

using such a language: a vernacular speaker.

4.

of or pertaining to such a language.

5.

using plain, everyday, ordinary language.

6.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of architectural vernacular.

7.

noting or pertaining to the common name for a plant oranimal.

8.

Obsolete . (of a disease) endemic.

–noun

9.

the native speech or language of a place.

10.

the language or vocabulary peculiar to a class or profession.

11.

a vernacular word or expression.

12.

the plain variety of language in everyday use by ordinarypeople.

13.

the common name of an animal or plant as distinguished fromits Latin scientific name.

14.

a style of architecture exemplifying the commonesttechniques, decorative features, and materials of a particularhistorical period, region, or group of people.

15.

any medium or mode of expression that reflects popular tasteor indigenous styles.

From Dictionary.com.

Using definition 5, the word vernacular is not vernacular, even though what is vernacular is by definition vernacular.