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A thought smuggled across the gap between two skulls, hoping nothing gets lost in customs.
means A piece of information or communication sent from one person to another, whether spoken, written, or transmitted by some other means.
from From the Latin 'mittere,' meaning 'to send,' which gave rise to 'missaticum' — a thing sent — via the Latin past participle 'missus.' This passed into Old French as 'message' before crossing into English in the medieval period. The same 'mittere' root quietly seeded a whole family of sending-words: 'mission,' 'missile,' 'emit,' 'transmit' — all things hurled, dispatched, or let fly toward somewhere else. The 'messenger' is the same word with an extra 'n' that wandered in over the centuries, an unexplained intruder it shares with 'passenger' and 'harbinger.'
- medium effect
- How it travels changes what it means
- bottle drift
- Some bottled messages cross oceans for decades
- morse minimum
- Two signals, dot and dash, built empires
- read receipts
- Seen at 2:14, replied never
- deep space
- Voyager carries a message for aliens
the telegram app — pavel durov's encrypted messaging platform with 900+ million users as of 2024
the rosetta stone — ancient egyptian artifact from 196 bce that decoded hieroglyphics through its trilingual inscriptions