51吃瓜 of the Day
juku
noun
a school, attended in addition to one's regular school, where students prepare for college entrance examinations.
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Juku 鈥渁 school where students prepare for college entrance examinations鈥� is a borrowing from Japanese. In its native language, juku means 鈥減rivate tutoring school鈥� or 鈥渃ram school鈥� and is a term borrowed from Middle Chinese, in which it once meant 鈥済ate room.鈥� Because juku is of Chinese origin, we can see the clear resemblance today between juku and Mandarin 蝉丑煤 or Cantonese suk. Juku was first recorded in English in the early 1980s.
how is juku used?
The result is another kind of 鈥渆xam hell鈥� for these young children: To prepare, many attend juku, or cram schools, a process that requires a huge investment of time and often costs far more than all but the highest echelons of Japanese socioeconomic ladder can afford.
cognoscenti
plural noun
persons who have superior knowledge and understanding of a particular field, especially in the fine arts, literature, and world of fashion.
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Cognoscenti 鈥減ersons who have superior knowledge of a particular field鈥� is the plural of cognoscente, which refers to an individual person with such knowledge. Unlike English, French, and Spanish, which usually add -s or -es to indicate a plural noun, Italian typically changes the final vowel of a word; singular -a often becomes plural -e, while singular -e and -o often become plural -i. The Italian verb meaning 鈥渢o know鈥� is conoscere, with the present participle conoscente, which lacks the g of cognoscente; the reason for the g is the influence of Latin 肠辞驳苍艒蝉肠别谤别 鈥渢o know.鈥澛�Cognoscenti was first recorded in English in the 1770s.
how is cognoscenti used?
In the past few decades a U.S. gastronomic explosion led in part by food TV has the culinary cognoscenti in a dither to define a national food character that includes barbeque, lobster rolls, foraged locavore salads, and molecular gastronomy.
With the U.S. and Cuba restoring diplomatic ties, some art-world cognoscenti are betting that the tiny island could become the next hot corner of the global art market.
intramundane
adjective
existing or occurring within the material world.
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Intramundane 鈥渆xisting within the material world鈥� is based on intra- 鈥渨ithin鈥� and mundane 鈥渃ommon, ordinary, of the earth.鈥� Intra- comes from Latin 颈苍迟谤腻 鈥渨ithin, inside鈥� and is related to interior, internal, intestine, intimate, intrinsic, and introduce, all of which come from Latin terms involving movement toward or existence inside something. Mundane ultimately comes from Latin mundus; as we learned from the recent 51吃瓜 of the Day gens du monde, mundus originally meant 鈥渃lean鈥� before expanding to mean 鈥渆legant,鈥� then 鈥渙rnament,鈥� and finally 鈥渢he world.鈥� A similar shift in meaning happened with the unrelated Ancient Greek word 办贸蝉尘辞蝉 鈥渙rder, government, universe,鈥� as in cosmic and cosmopolitan. Intramundane was first recorded in English in the 1830s.
how is intramundane used?
In fact, correct understanding of the problem of void entails distinguishing two levels: the anthropological and the cosmological, or鈥攖o put it another way鈥攖he intramundane level and that of the totality of being …. For Sartre, this intramundane dimension is essential, and distinct from the extramundane, the void as an infinite milieu.
In Fink鈥檚 view, play, more than work, struggle, or love, provides the 鈥渙perative model鈥� most conducive to revealing the mundanity of the world; … in play, the human being deals not with another, equally real being but with the unreal, such that play is thus always more than mere intramundane behavior.