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- 0:29I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 54 of I Hate Talking.
- 0:32I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
- 0:33I Hate Talking: So, today's word or phrase is a very short word.
- 0:38I Hate Talking: It may be the shortest word that we've ever done, and hopefully, we've never done this word before because I still do have a slight fear of doing a repeat word.
- 0:48I Hate Talking: And at some point, probably we'll go listen to all of our 53 previous episodes.
- 0:54I Hate Talking: And record what word it was and have that as a database so that we can internally make sure that we don't have a repeat.
- 1:01I Hate Talking: It's gonna get harder the longer we wait.
- 1:04I Hate Talking: You need to just do it.
- 1:06I Hate Talking: Yes, that is true.
- 1:08I Hate Talking: It would be better to start that sooner.
- 1:11I Hate Talking: So, -- today's word or phrase is -- apt.
- 1:15I Hate Talking: Like I'm apt to do this.
- 1:18I Hate Talking: Yes.
- 1:20I Hate Talking: Not.
- 1:20I Hate Talking: Like on our phones.
- 1:23I Hate Talking: No, which that is not even a word, that is just a shortened word that probably would become maybe now used as a word where it's like an application.
- 1:34I Hate Talking: But oh wait, yeah, that's what app means application.
- 1:39I Hate Talking: You have a phone application on your device.
- 1:41I Hate Talking: No, really?
- 1:43I Hate Talking: You didn't know that.
- 1:44I Hate Talking: No.
- 1:45I Hate Talking: What what would it be if it wasn't an application?
- 1:47I Hate Talking: It's an app.
- 1:48I Hate Talking: Well, you might question the phone makers.
- 1:52I Hate Talking: You might be at TGI Fridays and ordering an app.
- 1:55I Hate Talking: appetizer, that's a, that's why it's a different word, appetizer.
- 2:01I Hate Talking: Well, I guess you, our listeners may be getting two bonus words because maybe we'll have to look up app as in phone or computer application versus an appetizer at a restaurant, but the word we're talking about, yes, OK, let's focus, -- refocus on this -- is apt APT.
- 2:20I Hate Talking: What?
- 2:22I Hate Talking: How would you spell the word apt?
- 2:24I Hate Talking: What did you just spell APT.
- 2:27I Hate Talking: Oh, OK.
- 2:29I Hate Talking: Apt.
- 2:30I Hate Talking: I thought you said APP and then I was like, that is definitely a phone app.
- 2:36I Hate Talking: Well, maybe you should have paused and listened to what I said because I said APT.
- 2:41I Hate Talking: But to answer your question, I definitely would spell apt.
- 2:44I Hate Talking: Like, are you apt?
- 2:46I Hate Talking: An aptitude test.
- 2:48I Hate Talking: Are you apt to do this?
- 2:50I Hate Talking: A, D, D.
- 2:51I Hate Talking: -- I think you're getting your T's and -- D's and the poor listeners with all these D's and T's and P's, those aren't pleasant to hear.
- 3:02I Hate Talking: So sorry y'all.
- 3:04I Hate Talking: That is true.
- 3:05I Hate Talking: Maybe we have to mind our P's and Q's.
- 3:07I Hate Talking: Do you know where that phrase come from?
- 3:10I Hate Talking: Yes, from the typewriter thing or from like the uh early day printing, cause Ps and Q's look the same.
- 3:17I Hate Talking: That is not.
- 3:19I Hate Talking: -- And then -- they're like upside down so then you don't know if you have a or a.
- 3:22I Hate Talking: That is not the etymology of -- pes -- OK, we're, we're giving too much away.
- 3:27I Hate Talking: We have lots more episodes to do.
- 3:30I Hate Talking: All right, well, let's see where we go with this one.
- 3:33I Hate Talking: So the word apt, and I guess it is in the word aptitude.
- 3:38I Hate Talking: But that is not necessarily the exact etymology of the word apt.
- 3:42I Hate Talking: So I think aptitude may be more of a modern use of the same root word, but apt does mean it is suitable or appropriate or able to do something, right?
- 3:58I Hate Talking: It has the particular attributes or skills or whatever the case may be to fulfill a certain role or activity.
- 4:07I Hate Talking: So a person can be apt or a word could be apt to be suitable or appropriate in doing something.
- 4:17I Hate Talking: OK.
- 4:18I Hate Talking: So this particular word comes from purely Latin from the word appear, which means to fasten, and then that came to be used in the word aptus, which means fitted.
- 4:34I Hate Talking: So if you're fastening something, it is going to be fitted so that it is tightly fastened, and that came to be used in the late Middle English as apt.
- 4:44I Hate Talking: As in suited or appropriate because it is fitting that that word would become used in such a manner.
- 4:52I Hate Talking: Interesting, but it isn't the same word.
- 4:56I Hate Talking: I feel like I often associate it as a shortened version of aptitude.
- 5:02I Hate Talking: Like you take an aptitude test to see if you are suitable for this career.
- 5:08I Hate Talking: So interestingly enough, the word aptitude is a different definition and it has a different origin.
- 5:17I Hate Talking: So aptitude is the natural ability to do something.
- 5:21I Hate Talking: So if you are particularly apt at a particular activity, then perhaps you have the aptitude to do that, but it basically means a natural tendency or suitability or fitness enable to do something.
- 5:37I Hate Talking: Now it does have some of the same Latin roots.
- 5:43I Hate Talking: Aptus, which we just talked about is fitted, but it also came to be used in a different Latin word aptitudo, which means that sort of natural tendency part of the word.
- 5:56I Hate Talking: So it does come somewhat in the Latin.
- 6:00I Hate Talking: But then actually came to be used as a separate word in the Latin from that same root word, and then came to be used as aptitude in the Middle English.
- 6:10I Hate Talking: So, whereas apt came straight from the word aptus in Latin.
- 6:16I Hate Talking: So, There was actually that split happened in Latin, -- not in -- English.
- 6:22I Hate Talking: Oh, there you go.
- 6:23I Hate Talking: So, am I getting it correct?
- 6:25I Hate Talking: The aptitude would be more of a God-given natural ability.
- 6:32I Hate Talking: Where apt could be that or it could be like a training for it, whether you have to train and learn a skill or you just know how to do it.
- 6:43I Hate Talking: Precisely, and I think also the word apt is more used in a general sense that it's not necessarily a person, but it could even be a word, phrase or thing that is apt to be used in a certain fashion, whereas I think aptitude is going to be more related to a person or Something that has a particular skill or natural tendency.
- 7:06I Hate Talking: OK.
- 7:07I Hate Talking: So are we gonna check on app and app as well?
- 7:11I Hate Talking: If we want to have a purple header for this episode.
- 7:15I Hate Talking: Well, I don't think we want to keep our listeners in suspense, -- so -- I don't want to be in suspense.
- 7:21I Hate Talking: Well, -- at -- least check on the app and app.
- 7:23I Hate Talking: So app as in terms.
- 7:25I Hate Talking: An application on your phone.
- 7:27I Hate Talking: I, I can't even think of a different.
- 7:30I Hate Talking: It's not just a word app.
- 7:32I Hate Talking: -- It -- is.
- 7:33I Hate Talking: Have you ever said download this application?
- 7:36I Hate Talking: Yes, I have.
- 7:37I Hate Talking: Well, I have not.
- 7:39I Hate Talking: So, A is a common abbreviation for application when referring to software programs, especially those designed for mobile devices.
- 7:49I Hate Talking: -- But -- what's application mean?
- 7:51I Hate Talking: Because I feel like application means like you take something.
- 7:54I Hate Talking: And you apply it to what you're doing.
- 7:58I Hate Talking: So I think the way that application became to be used in software is more around logic.
- 8:09I Hate Talking: So in the very early days of computing, according to some of the brief research that I've done offline here is that there would be punch cards or particular logic blocks that would be applied to particular computer problems or mathematical problems.
- 8:27I Hate Talking: And that these particular logic things then became known as applications because you, as a computer programmer or a computer user are applying the particular logic that the programmer has designed to solve a particular problem using computing resources or in order to do something with the technology.
- 8:54I Hate Talking: So that appears to be The sort of etymology in terms of application as it relates to computer software.
- 9:03I Hate Talking: OK, can we say that probably In the future, app will be its own word then.
- 9:11I Hate Talking: Cause that's so far removed, and that was probably what in the 80s or whatnot so long ago.
- 9:17I Hate Talking: That app is its own externally actual thing now.
- 9:25I Hate Talking: So, our favorite Oxford English dictionary, which we actually used the Merriam-Webster last time in our previous episode, but it does seem that the word app in the Oxford English Dictionary.
- 9:43I Hate Talking: is Not looked upon favorably by the English because they specifically refer to this word as used in North American English.
- 9:54I Hate Talking: And it has this word as a computing term with regards to the application thing that we've been talking about.
- 10:04I Hate Talking: So, are you saying that in the UK they do not call the things that you download on your phone to open your email or whatnot, apps, what do they call them?
- 10:19I Hate Talking: If that's a North American term.
- 10:22I Hate Talking: They're not widgets, which is a completely different thing.
- 10:26I Hate Talking: So what is it called?
- 10:28I Hate Talking: They might just call it application.
- 10:30I Hate Talking: I will have to ask somebody in Europe next time I talk to them.
- 10:34I Hate Talking: Yeah, when you do ask.
- 10:36I Hate Talking: Did you download that, cause if someone told me, did you download the application?
- 10:40I Hate Talking: I would think like to apply for a job?
- 10:44I Hate Talking: What are you talking about?
- 10:45I Hate Talking: But if someone says download this app, like oh, OK, sure.
- 10:50I Hate Talking: So, we will have to keep our listeners in suspense because I will have to wait until I talk to somebody in Europe about that.
- 10:57I Hate Talking: All right.
- 10:58I Hate Talking: And then The app as in terms of appetizer.
- 11:04I Hate Talking: does not really seem to have any particular etymology.
- 11:09I Hate Talking: It looks like.
- 11:10I Hate Talking: Just a pure shortening of the word.
- 11:13I Hate Talking: OK, but if you're reading it, if I feel like, I think this is why I assumed app was a word, because I feel like if you're talking about a phone app, it's usually capital A, capital P, capital P.
- 11:29I Hate Talking: But if you're reading the word appetizer, like, let's order the app.
- 11:35I Hate Talking: For happy hour.
- 11:37I Hate Talking: It's like APP, right?
- 11:39I Hate Talking: Lowercase letters.
- 11:41I Hate Talking: No, I think both would be lowercase.
- 11:44I Hate Talking: Really?
- 11:46I Hate Talking: Yes.
- 11:47I Hate Talking: Oh.
- 11:47I Hate Talking: And it does seem that the more prevalent use of the word app is in reference to application and Not appetizer, and then Wikipedia gives a third one, where it is a shortening of the word appearance.
- 12:06I Hate Talking: So, for example, if Mike Trout made an app at a baseball game, that would be an appearance.
- 12:13I Hate Talking: I don't think I've ever heard.
- 12:15I Hate Talking: That used anywhere, but Wikipedia says that that is a third shortening of a word that ends, therefore, in the word app.
- 12:26I Hate Talking: OK.
- 12:27I Hate Talking: So, I think that the most apt thing to do is if you want to be explicitly clear, is to use the full word, application, appetizer or appearance.
- 12:39I Hate Talking: I don't think so.
- 12:41I Hate Talking: I'd almost argue just for appetizer, but if you're out of, I think context counts too, right?
- 12:47I Hate Talking: If you're with your friends and you say, hey, you want to order an app, I wouldn't think they're asking me to pull up my phone.
- 12:55I Hate Talking: To download something.
- 12:57I Hate Talking: I think they wanna share some appetizers.
- 13:02I Hate Talking: But if somebody said download this app, I think, oh, instantly.
- 13:08I Hate Talking: They want me to click on this QR code and get this program on my phone.
- 13:14I Hate Talking: They don't want me to order nachos.
- 13:17I Hate Talking: Yeah, I suppose you could use all three in a sentence, so if you're single out there and your date makes an app, it's time to download an app so that you can order some apps.
- 13:27I Hate Talking: OK.
- 13:29I Hate Talking: So that is our word or phrase of the episode, apt and That just came to mind because that was one of the words that I used in the previous episode to describe how pauses might be sometimes used and when maybe be an appropriate time to use them because if they are apt to be used, that means that they are fitting or appropriate.
- 13:53I Hate Talking: OK, yeah, that was a long go around, but that was super interesting.
- 13:57I Hate Talking: I felt like I learned a lot.
- 14:00I Hate Talking: So are we gonna keep the suspense then for the etymology of P's and Q's?
- 14:05I Hate Talking: If you want this to be an etymology podcast, we can cause we can go on that.
- 14:12I Hate Talking: It's totally whatever you want.
- 14:14I Hate Talking: Well, we've have spent a lot of time on etymology.
- 14:19I Hate Talking: So I think it is time to move on and if our listeners would like to hear about Ps and Q's, you can tune in next time.
- 14:27I Hate Talking: OK, but to build uh suspense, you don't think I'm right on what I said.
- 14:33I Hate Talking: No it's not, it's not a matter of thinking.
- 14:37I Hate Talking: I know.
- 14:38I Hate Talking: That there is a very specific etymology of Ps and Q's and it has nothing to do with the typewriter or the formation of the typewriter, but like that, the original typing.
- 14:51I Hate Talking: Are they on opposite ends of the keyboard or like as far apart as you can get?
- 14:54I Hate Talking: Yeah, but like, no, the original print, OK, I must have misspoke, the original time like they created printed work.
- 15:03I Hate Talking: And they'd have to, I guess we have to talk about this.
- 15:07I Hate Talking: You, OK, we'll talk about it later.
- 15:09I Hate Talking: We'll talk about it later.
- 15:11I Hate Talking: So.
- 15:11I Hate Talking: So, I think I might have misspoke and you're taking it super literal, which Jefferson Fisher in his book talks about the importance of words and how important a word can be to change the entire outcome of a conversation.
- 15:28I Hate Talking: That is very true.
- 15:30I Hate Talking: That is one of the reasons that we do talk about words and etymology on this particular podcast because they are of great importance.
- 15:38I Hate Talking: So Ps and Q's, tune in next time.
- 15:42I Hate Talking: We've spent enough time on ap apps, app and app.
- 15:47I Hate Talking: Oh man.
- 15:49I Hate Talking: So, one of the things that came up in our last episode that maybe we will touch on for the remainder of this episode is just narration and whether authors read their works differently or if maybe particularly we have any favorite narrators that Narrate audiobooks or podcasts or anything of that nature.
- 16:15I Hate Talking: Mhm.
- 16:16I Hate Talking: So I think it was clear from the tail end of our episode last time that I do not particularly enjoy self-narrated works where the author is reading their own book.
- 16:31I Hate Talking: You do not.
- 16:33I Hate Talking: I feel like we've talked about that maybe on the podcast a little bit before too.
- 16:36I Hate Talking: But yes, you have A disdain or disinterest in authors, and maybe uh you can remind us all of why, cause you do have valid reasons why you dislike it.
- 16:51I Hate Talking: Yes, so probably two main reasons come to mind.
- 16:57I Hate Talking: One is the speed at which they read.
- 17:03I Hate Talking: I've always found that.
- 17:05I Hate Talking: Authors that read their own works will read it faster.
- 17:09I Hate Talking: Now, this is probably because they are not trained narrators, so they do not necessarily have the exact particular temperament to read at an even meter or at a meter that is most appropriate for audiobooks.
- 17:25I Hate Talking: So it's a little bit of an inaccuracy in my mind because if a book is presented as being 8 hours long.
- 17:35I Hate Talking: I can speed that up and listen to it at a more fast pace, but if it is a self-narrated work, I will not be able to speed it up at the same rate.
- 17:47I Hate Talking: So a quote unquote regular book that is narrated by a trained narrator might turn in from an eight hour book to a 4 hour book, but a self-narrated book might change from an 8 hour book to only a 6 hour book, so.
- 18:02I Hate Talking: It will make a difference in terms of the time that I spend listening to a book as an audiobook.
- 18:10I Hate Talking: Interesting.
- 18:10I Hate Talking: And on that, I just don't know, maybe you do.
- 18:14I Hate Talking: I've always assumed the audiobook is word for word, the same.
- 18:18I Hate Talking: Occasionally you'll hear them throw something in that's different, and they'll often acknowledge that.
- 18:24I Hate Talking: From the written work versus the audio, cause audio obviously comes after the written.
- 18:30I Hate Talking: But is it word for word?
- 18:34I Hate Talking: Cause I know there's an event that, I mean, you and I both do, that I do.
- 18:39I Hate Talking: That I have to write out something for and turn it in to get approval.
- 18:45I Hate Talking: And then I go speak it in front of a crowd.
- 18:48I Hate Talking: There's often A few sentences that I changed the words when I'm doing it, not intentionally, and I do not think it's changing the meaning at all.
- 18:59I Hate Talking: It's just a more natural way I talk than what is explicitly read.
- 19:05I Hate Talking: That is possible.
- 19:08I Hate Talking: I don't know if I've ever observed that with a particular audiobook that is read by the author.
- 19:14I Hate Talking: The other thing that I do notice with an author that reads her own work is that sometimes their inflection will actually not be all that good.
- 19:24I Hate Talking: So again, as a person that is not trained in narration, they might not have a lot of inflection or a lot of variability within their tone and speed and things of that nature.
- 19:37I Hate Talking: But there are the opposite in the spectrum where perhaps the author because they understand what they are reading and what they actually want to impart to the listener, they will have better inflection than a narrator.
- 19:49I Hate Talking: So that can go sort of both ways.
- 19:51I Hate Talking: Now, the interesting thing that you noted in terms of how perhaps maybe the written word is different from the spoken word is when I'm preparing something that is spoken, I will actually speak the written thing that I wrote.
- 20:06I Hate Talking: And adjust it accordingly.
- 20:08I Hate Talking: Adjusted how?
- 20:10I Hate Talking: If I run into a phrase or a word that makes perfect sense in the written word, but maybe seems a little bit off in terms of how it would be delivered in spoken form, I will make that adjustment.
- 20:25I Hate Talking: Right, I think that's what I'm asking is Often when we're reading something to have correct grammar.
- 20:32I Hate Talking: Or punctuation and needs to be written in a certain way.
- 20:36I Hate Talking: But when you're speaking it, if you spoke like that, it would sound odd.
- 20:42I Hate Talking: And I don't know if they have the ability and flexibility to change that when they're reading it out loud.
- 20:49I Hate Talking: I would doubt it.
- 20:51I Hate Talking: I think that if.
- 20:52I Hate Talking: A narrator was hired to narrate a specific book, they would not have that liberty to change what the author who isn't hired and they're doing it.
- 21:03I Hate Talking: Do they have the ability and flexibility?
- 21:08I Hate Talking: I would assume that maybe they would have that flexibility and ability, but I don't know if they would really necessarily pursue that because I think they would want to act in a way that had fidelity to the original work that they published in the written form.
- 21:24I Hate Talking: OK.
- 21:24I Hate Talking: So, that is some of the reasons that maybe particularly I do not like authors that read their own works.
- 21:33I Hate Talking: But I definitely have some favorite narrators.
- 21:37I Hate Talking: Sometimes I will buy a book just for the narrator.
- 21:41I Hate Talking: Yeah, you want me to name him?
- 21:42I Hate Talking: Well, I'm interested to know if it's the same narrator.
- 21:45I Hate Talking: This will be interesting.
- 21:46I Hate Talking: I don't know if we've ever talked about this.
- 21:48I Hate Talking: We do because you've gotten me books because of him.
- 21:51I Hate Talking: You've tried to convince me like you have to read it.
- 21:54I Hate Talking: Or like listen to this guy, it's so and so I reads it.
- 21:59I Hate Talking: You don't know who I'm talking about?
- 22:01I Hate Talking: Well, I know who my favorite narrator is.
- 22:02I Hate Talking: I don't know if we're talking about the same person.
- 22:04I Hate Talking: All right, I'll look it up.
- 22:06I Hate Talking: Well, I know it.
- 22:07I Hate Talking: You don't know it.
- 22:07I Hate Talking: I know him as like my personal friend Ray Porter, the best narrator in the world.
- 22:13I Hate Talking: I'm not on personal terms with him.
- 22:16I Hate Talking: No, me and Ray don't go way back.
- 22:18I Hate Talking: Well, neither do we, but Yes, I definitely know the name Ray Porter because he is definitely the best narrator that I have ever encountered by far.
- 22:28I Hate Talking: Gray Porter.
- 22:30I Hate Talking: So you can check out some of his works.
- 22:32I Hate Talking: There's a number of them that he narrates that are quite good.
- 22:37I Hate Talking: So.
- 22:38I Hate Talking: Are you name any of them?
- 22:40I Hate Talking: Well, the one that we were just talking about as we were trying to arrive at the book that you enjoyed that was narrated by him was.
- 22:48I Hate Talking: Project Hail Mary by Andy Ware, which was narrated by Ray Porter.
- 22:55I Hate Talking: So we can throw that one in the show notes as well.
- 22:57I Hate Talking: That was one that we both enjoyed.
- 22:59I Hate Talking: Not only because of the content of the story, but because of the excellent narration.
- 23:05I Hate Talking: Right?
- 23:05I Hate Talking: I mean, I don't know if I would have enjoyed the story as much without him.
- 23:10I Hate Talking: Uh, narrated it you told me about.
- 23:14I Hate Talking: The book and I wasn't interested until you said he was narrating it and so I listened and I did enjoy it.
- 23:23I Hate Talking: So I think narrators can make a big difference because of how they present the information.
- 23:30I Hate Talking: It can make it interesting or not.
- 23:33I Hate Talking: Precisely.
- 23:35I Hate Talking: So that is one of our favorite narrators.
- 23:40I Hate Talking: There's some that Will Wheaton has done that are quite good.
- 23:45I Hate Talking: So, The Martian, which was by the same author, Andy Ware, I think Will Wheaton also did the narration of Ready Player One and Ready Player 2.
- 23:53I Hate Talking: And the kids really enjoy Jack Black as a narrator on some of them on the Minecraft book.
- 24:01I Hate Talking: Jack Black has the Minecraft movie now too, that we're gonna have to go see.
- 24:05I Hate Talking: We will probably see it at some point.
- 24:09I Hate Talking: There's a lot of mixed feelings on the movie itself in our household, so I don't know if we're going to spend the money to go see it in theaters.
- 24:19I Hate Talking: We probably will wait until it is available to buy or rent.
- 24:24I Hate Talking: What was that other movie that it was so good that we did not go see it in theaters because it was a huge flop, the Dogman movie.
- 24:31I Hate Talking: Oh my goodness, that was.
- 24:33I Hate Talking: Not a good movie experience.
- 24:36I Hate Talking: I'm not sure why that was, but it was certainly good that we did not spend all the money to go see that in theaters because I don't even think some of the kids made it through like the 1st 5 minutes and they said this is dumb.
- 24:45I Hate Talking: No, we bought it.
- 24:46I Hate Talking: We probably could have waited till it came out, but we did buy it.
- 24:51I Hate Talking: To own And yeah, they didn't like it.
- 24:56I Hate Talking: Um, one of the Minecraft themes in all, you know, Jack Black's defense, some of our kids don't wanna watch it because it's called a Minecraft movie, not the Minecraft movie.
- 25:09I Hate Talking: So they think it's a knockoff because it's not the, it's just a.
- 25:14I Hate Talking: And that's an importance of the word choice.
- 25:18I Hate Talking: It is an importance of the word choice.
- 25:20I Hate Talking: So, well, I think this is an apt time to end this particular episode, but before we do, if you are listeners think that we, the podcasters have aptitude at podcasting, we would like you to share this episode and this podcast with others that you also may think.
- 25:43I Hate Talking: would enjoy it and continue to listen and perhaps next time we will mind our P's and Q's.
- 25:51I Hate Talking: So, from your friends at IHTalking until next time, remember, it is only through talking that we begin the journey to understanding.