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by 082349872349872 732 days ago
No, although I do have a fair amount of shelf space devoted to a CS book series (published by that breakaway technical college somewhere in the fens) all of which are in shades of what I would've called green, but a cantab colleague informed me was in fact blue.

If either of us had had any irish gaelic, maybe we would've agreed upon glas? see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_lang...
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vinnyvichy 732 days ago
No iG but likewise my uni can be said to have Brythonic roots. (As opposed to merely Anglo-Saxon)
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082349872349872 732 days ago
Tonnerre de Brest ! Swansea by any chance? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40013890
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vinnyvichy 732 days ago
No, I was referring to that one female Pilgrim whose descendant founded my uni.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggs_(surname)#:~:text=Brigg....

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vinnyvichy 732 days ago
To make it more equitable, my uni was the ancestor of SBF's alma mater (bureaucratically as well as vexillarily).

If that's too much travail, consider that its location is the namesake of an oikos that perpetually draws in a certain Homeric hero.

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082349872349872 731 days ago
One hint too many! I have been taught that "it's ${LOCATION}ing" is the english equivalent of « il pleuvine », and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40244602 ought to have billions and billions of connections. (none of which involve Leontine S)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JhdMPkA0YM&t=120s

(as for me, one of my friends is on the faculty, studying among other things quiver varieties, which brings us full circle back to Penelope, who set up the competition with Odysseus' bow. If it were an asian recurve bow, it makes sense that the suitors might've tried to string it backwards, and if it were a horseback bow, the draw weight for its size might easily have been such that only someone who knew the foot trick for stringing would've managed)

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vinnyvichy 730 days ago
He'd better not be also studying cdS, because that hits too close to oikos.

(Acronym because I need any now or ever other lurkers on this thread to work just a wee harder)

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