Launch announcement 🎉 🎉 Word-A-Day is open to everyone. Learn a word. Use it in a cast. Get scored. Climb the leaderboard. https://paragraph.com/@adrienne/word-a-day-is-live-on-farcaster

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While some players were busy letting 'percolate' seep into their conversations yesterday, today we’re diving into ‘quibble.’ It’s time to argue about the small stuff—share your best quibble in a cast.

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58 people so far have signed up to receive the @word-a-day in their email inboxes Not sure what's going to happen to Farcaster, miniapps, or neynar APIs, but if you've been playing /word-a-day here and want to continue learning new words, you can subscribe via email on the website https://www.word-a-day.com/login

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Every workplace has two versions of reality. The one in the announcement and the one people discuss five minutes later in the hallway. The second one is usually more interesting. Someone knows a manager is leaving. Someone heard about a project getting canceled. Someone's cousin's friend "knows for sure." None of it is official. All of it somehow travels faster than the memo. There's an old word for this kind of unofficial current: scuttlebutt. Funny how the best information has always seemed to gather where people aren't supposed to be having meetings.

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A little scuttlebutt never hurt anyone—today’s word means rumor or gossip. Yesterday, 9 players grappled with 'feral'; 6 passed with an average score of 11.3. Use 'scuttlebutt' in your next cast and keep the chatter going!

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When I hear the word miasma I always think of this They Might Be Giants song from one of their children’s albums “The sun is a miasma Of incandescent plasma The sun's not simply made out of gas No, no, no The sun is a quagmire It's not made of fire Forget what you've been told in the past” It’s funny because this song ‘why does the sun really shine’ comes right after their song ‘why does the sun shine’ where they tell kids the sun is a giant ball of gas and then this song comes on to say it’s actually a miasma of plasma and not a ball of gas Also if you have kids under 10, highly recommend playing this entire album in the car or whenever you listen to music- my kids said it helped with with science tests in high school and even college 🤣

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Just came across today's @word-a-day while reading When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut. Here miasma (which sounds pretty similar in Russian) is used to describe the state, kind of like psychosis, that overtook Schrödinger while he was in the army during WWI in Italy. He suffered from severe apathy, slept a lot, and could barely stand. He even forgot all his comrades’ names, like his mind had been poisoned by some toxic miasma and his memory had gone rusty. Anyway, I’m reading on. The book’s pretty short, so I’ll probably finish it today.

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Before the miasma of cable news, rage podcasts, and extremist influencers, there was Letterman. There was Arsenio. There was Leno. And then there was the Tonight Show. Some might argue there was a slight political slant, but Johnny Carson made a nightly conscious effort to avoid prescribing positions on “serious issues” given his undue influence on the watching public. All were welcome and the ever-gracious Dolly Parton captured this public sentiment beautifully in this sweet song to the king of late night TV - once upon a time.

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The Lobby mini app was acting a little wonky today and was occasionally glitching during trivia rounds. Nonetheless, I managed to squeak out a couple wins.

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@nounishprof Some words become famous because people use them "wrong." Then enough people use them that the wrong version starts acquiring a history of its own. Supposably is a strange little example. You hear it, recognize what the speaker means, and move on. But language has never really cared about our attempts to keep it tidy. Every generation bends words a little. Sometimes the dictionary eventually catches up. Sometimes the joke becomes part of the language.

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Supposedly, supposably is a word according to Merriam-Webster. And Joey Tribbiani. #justice4Joey https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/supposably-vs-supposedly

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Word check: supposably or supposedly? I'm a bit lost 🤯 "Supposably" is rare and strange-sounding, "supposedly" is the common choice. True?

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Ah, the fine line between 'supposedly' and 'supposably.' Which do you think fits better? Dive into today's word and give it a whirl in a cast. And kudos to the 5 players who passed antiquity with an average score of 12/15. Suggested by NounishProf

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An acquisition may be on the horizon but no matter the outcome, hope this energy remains that I’ve seen over the past few days. If you’ve just returned to Farcaster to see what was going on with Farcaster, stick around so Farcaster can see what’s going on with you!

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Some things become less valuable the moment you possess them. You spend months wanting them, imagining what they'll change, and then they arrive and life barely moves. I've started thinking more carefully about acquisition. A new skill. A better AI tool. Another book. Another piece of information. The interesting question isn't what you can collect. It's what changes after you do. Knowledge sitting unused is just another possession.

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