At least in Firefox the search pane has a ‘Match Diacritics’ option. Turning it on causes it to match only the precise characters in the textbox. (It’s slightly misnamed, since it doesn’t just handle diacritics, but also cases like ⟨e⟩ vs ⟨ɛ⟩.)
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This does sound interesting! I’ve just finished a Masters degree, also in non-imaging optics (in my case oceanographic lidar systems). I have experience in raytracing for optical simulation, though not quite in the same sense as optical design software. How should I contact you to learn more?
(Manx is terrible, but for different reasons: its orthography was designed by English-speakers!)
Whereas ‘perpendicular’ means pointing at right angles: ↑→
(And, of course, ‘parallel’ without qualification would mean pointing in the same direction: ↑↑)
Alas, I had to drop this setup on moving to Wayland. And I can’t get it back easily, because Wayland compositors generally don’t allow for their window managers to be swapped out. I now use Sway WM, which is perfectly acceptable… but I still miss my tiling desktop environment.
> caused by the filling or emptying of an underground magma chamber
In this case, the magma chamber underlies the entire area of the Phlegraean Fields. As more or less magma enters the chamber, the ground in the area slowly moves up or down.
No, in fact they descend from the accusative forms, lēgem and rēgem. I don’t know much about the precise evolution, but g → y strikes me as a perfectly normal sound change, especially before /e/. Looks like it happened in the other Romance languages too: compare French roi, Portuguese rei, Italian re, etc.
Not really… these categories fall together in a lot of languages. It doesn’t even require prepositions: a lot of languages have case markers which can be used for both location and verbal arguments.
The specific examples you’ve given are, respectively, called the ‘comitative’ and ‘instrumental’ uses of with. These two categories are particularly prone to falling together, mostly because the boundaries between them aren’t particularly clear: for instance, if you say, I made the coffee with milk, you could say that the coffee is accompanied by the milk (comitative), but you could also say that you’re using the milk (instrumental).
Called a ‘postposition’. And that’s precisely what ‘ago’ is!
> Le Guin in her version certainly captures the terseness and the aesthetic sensibility of the Tao. Scholars tell me that her work is disputable, but I see nothing to dispute. Her total aspiration is meaning, and her transpositions, as she calls her versions of the text, strengthen meaning.
How true this all is, I really don’t know. Le Guin herself admits that, for the first chapter at least, ‘A satisfactory translation […] is, I believe, perfectly impossible’. I personally like the aesthetics of her version, at least.
Unfortunately, all this makes it an utter pain to set up. It’s also somewhat specialised to my own very minimal needs. When I’ve mentioned it in the past, people have suggested open-sourcing it, but for these reasons I’ve resisted it. This post now makes me wonder if I should look into ways to improve it…
(The first time I saw it, I wondered if I was going insane, because the conversations seemed unrelated to the topic and nonsensical in themselves… good to know there’s nothing I’m missing!)