51吃瓜 of the Day
iatrogenic
adjective
caused by the diagnosis, manner, or treatment of a physician.
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Iatrogenic 鈥渃aused by the treatment of a physician鈥� is a compound based on the Ancient Greek-origin combining forms iatro- 鈥渄octor, healer, medicine鈥� and -genic 鈥減roducing or causing.鈥� Iatro- comes from Ancient Greek 颈腻迟谤贸蝉 鈥渉ealer,鈥� from 颈芒蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o heal,鈥� which is also the source of geriatric, pediatrician, psychiatry, and the name Jason. The element -genic comes from Ancient Greek -驳别苍脓蝉 鈥渂orn, produced,鈥� which is also the source of cosmogenic, hallucinogenic, and the name Eugene. Iatrogenic was first recorded in English in the early 1920s.
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Sometime[s] these iatrogenic injuries are accidental. But sometimes, because of the limits of medical technology, they can be inevitable. Now, a medical researcher in Seattle thinks he has a way to eliminate some of the inevitable ones.
测茅-测茅
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of the rock-'n'-roll music, fashions, entertainment, etc., of the 1960s, especially in France.
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驰茅-测茅 鈥渙f the French rock-鈥檔鈥�-roll culture of the 1960s鈥� is a borrowing from French that, in turn, is adapted from English yeah-yeah. Yeah is a variant of either yea or yes; yea (pronounced as 鈥測ey鈥�) comes from Old English 驳脓补 鈥渟o,鈥� while yes is a compound of 驳脓补 and Old English 蝉墨 鈥渂e it.鈥� A similar shift in meaning happened in some Romance languages, with Latin 蝉墨c 鈥渟o鈥� becoming Portuguese sim and Spanish 蝉铆 鈥測es.鈥� The process of a borrowed word getting borrowed back into its language of origin is called reborrowing, and another well-known example is how English animation was adapted in Japanese as anime, which was itself borrowed back into English as anime. 驰茅-测茅 was first recorded in English in the early 1960s.
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While other French singers from Hardy’s 驰茅-测茅 generation were a flash in the pan, she has endured because she was different, Jean-Pierre Pasqualini says.
鈥淚 was really inspired by 鈥�60s girl groups,鈥� [Charli XCX] says. 鈥淓specially 测茅-测茅 pop from France, like Brigitte Bardot and Sylvie Vartan.鈥�
veracious
adjective
characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content.
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Veracious 鈥渃haracterized by truthfulness鈥� is based on the noun veracity 鈥渢ruthfulness,鈥� combined with the adjective-forming suffix -ous. Veracity comes from Latin 惫脓谤腻虫 鈥渢ruthful,鈥� a derivative of 惫脓谤耻蝉, of the same meaning. As we learned from the recent 51吃瓜 of the Day aver, Latin 惫脓谤耻蝉 is a distant relative of Old English 飞牵谤 鈥渇aith, covenant,鈥� the source of warlock, which meant 鈥渙athbreaker鈥� once upon a time. Another derivative of 惫脓谤耻蝉 is Old French voir (modern French vrai) 鈥渢rue,鈥� as in voir dire (literally 鈥渢o say truly鈥�), a type of oath in which the voir element is often mistakenly believed to come from modern French voir 鈥渢o see.鈥� Be careful not to confuse veracious with voracious 鈥渃raving large amounts of food,鈥� from Latin 惫辞谤腻虫 鈥済濒耻迟迟辞苍辞耻蝉.鈥� Veracious was first recorded in the 1670s.
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In the summer of 1854, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins created the world鈥檚 first sculptures of dinosaurs for an exhibition at London鈥檚 Crystal Palace Park …. One newspaperman described the megalosaurus, the greatest of the 鈥渁ntediluvian monsters,鈥� as a scaly dragon with the 鈥渉ead of a gryphon鈥� and an 鈥渆ye as big as a cheese-cake.鈥� 鈥淭hese are the creatures,鈥� he wrote, 鈥渢hat prove fairy tales to be more veracious than ancient history.”
Accuracy activists have more ways than ever to shine a veracious light on the scourge of misinformation. At the same time, digital platforms provide more efficient vectors than ever for falsehoods to spread. It’s the fact-checkers’ paradox: even as they gain new powers to hold politicians accountable, lies are more persistent than ever.