Cogito Ergo Sum

I'll be damned, it says "Cogito ergo sum.'

Cogito ergo sum is a lovely little latin phrase that translates as "I think, therefore I am" but also means, "I am thinking, therefore I exist." The tense or wording really makes a big difference there and it's what makes for funny cartoons. This famous quote is attributed to French philosopher René Descartes. If he said it in French, it would be "Je pense, donc je suis."

cogito ergo sum

Learn a Little Latin: Verbatim

Verbatim Fail

Verbatim

• in exactly the same words as were used originally.

Verbatim Fail

I think we're all familiar with how important this is in a court of law, journalism, or academic settings.

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Learn a Little Latin: Ergo

Ergo

• hence, therefore

How to say it? The trusty OED will tell us how…

Not the same as…

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Learn a little Latin: A Posteriori

A Posteriori

• reasoning or arguing from effects to causes, from experience and not from axioms; empirical, inductive.
• From behind, on the back, on the buttocks.

If you come across this written word, it generally means reasoning from effects to causes. But if you ever feel like using it, it will be when someone is talking out of their ass.

If you want to know how to pronounce this little bit of Latin, this is what the OED suggests.

Learn a little Latin: A Priori

A Priori

• Based on hypothesis rather than experiment.
• Self-evident, intuitively obvious
• Presumed without analysis 
• reasoning or arguing from causes to effects, from abstract notions to their conditions or consequences, from propositions or assumed axioms (and not from experience); deductive; deductively.

Do you watch Law & Order? If you do, you've probably heard the legal people use this term. It's pronounced like this, according to my old friend the OED.

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Stop Squinting! Keyboard Commands to Make Life Easier

Stop Squinting! Using the Zoom Function
These three keys are together on the keyboard in the top row. They are used to zoom in and out in browser windows, PDF documents, and more, for easier reading. Zoom in by typing command or control with plus, zoom out with minus, and go back to normal size with zero.

Beginner Instruction: Keying in a Function
To type a keyboard command, press the function key in the same fashion as using shift. First, ress and hold the function key, in this case command for mac and control for PCs rather than shift. Then with a different finger type the second key normally. The function will take place and you can release the function key.

Mac
⌘	+	ZOOM IN
⌘	-	ZOOM OUT
⌘	0	NO ZOOM
PC
Ctrl	+	ZOOM IN
Ctrl	-	ZOOM OUT
Ctrl	0	NO ZOOM