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Word of the Day

Ilunga (n., i-LOON-gah)

Someone who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time. In 2004, The word was chosen as the "most untranslatable word." Clearly, none of the 1,000 linguists in the study had ilunga towards ilunga.

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Link of the Day

Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories

Kurt Vonnegut once diagrammed the shape of the plots of popular story types in a lecture:

It's a fun lecture by a mild curmudgeon. But it's a little unsatisfying because it stops at three story types. Fortunately, designer Maya Eilam did an infographic with a few more story types:

Tags Literature, etc.StoriesNarrativesPatternsMath in artKurt Vonnegut