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rds i feel obligated to add that steven comes from a greek word meaning crown of laurel and schwartzman is german for black man dark man compare the related native english swarthy share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 42 comments add yours ariana sep 04 2010 14 30 35 fascinating reply bythefirelight sep 26 2010 03 15 03 great blog it is a lot of fun to read keep up the good work reply wordconnections sep 26 2010 04 15 23 thanks for your comment and your enjoyment of the blog i appreciate it reply allen josephs jan 08 2011 17 28 48 why only abd reply wordconnections jan 08 2011 18 29 44 my attention was diverted to among other things mathematics and computer graphics reply george jochnowitz may 07 2011 00 50 40 if you re interested in spanish you might also be fascinated by ladino http www jochnowitz net essays ladinolives html reply wordconnections may 07 2011 01 36 30 the 1986 movie every time we say goodbye which was set in israel included surprisingly many conversations in ladino which i could largely understand reply niasunset dec 16 2011 14 29 16 photography is amazing through the photography blogs i have met with you dear steven you are doing great job in this blog i haven t seen any study like that before made me so excited i love to read and to learn something about the words and also the connections of the different languages and your writing is amazing too your usage of english language is so nice but as i explained before i don t know spanish language can i learn i don t have any idea because i have an experince in italy when i stayed there it was so difficult for me to learn a new language why i am here because i am not a student and also i am not a teacher too but i am a student in this life till to die or till to my brain stops i hope i don t make you confused your experiences knowledge and photographs and stories they all like to read an enjoyable book i wished to read all these post without giving break but this is my second language and i get tired sometimes so day by day i want to visit and to read them all please go slow that i can catch you i am joking by the way i should understand that you are a mathematician i can see you in your sentences in your way of expressions has a poetical way too i don t get surprise if you say that you are writing poetry too everything starts with the harmony of the words and this is a kind of mathematic too thank you dear steven and good luck for all these works and i wish you to make all these post a published book with your photographs as in here blessing and happiness with my love and sorry if i make mistakes in my sentences reply steve schwartzman dec 16 2011 15 00 04 thanks so much for all your kind comments nia yes i used to teach mathematics so i got in the habit of explaining things clearly if you can find poetry mixed in with the mathematical clarity i m all for it and if you can find a publisher for the kinds of things i do in these two blogs by all means let me know because i ve tried but have so far been unable to find one reply niasunset dec 16 2011 15 39 15 i can t imagine this in my country i gave up to write in my own language because it makes me so sad all about these things publishing etc i supposed that it was problem only in my geography what happened there too i am so sad for this dear steven how would be so interesting these works but who knows maybe you can find in near future dear steven you are welcome and thanks with my love nia reply susan okaty feb 07 2012 14 24 22 both my sons are ut graduates one in math and austin is one of my favorite cities i miss polvos tons reply steve schwartzman feb 07 2012 16 10 46 that s quite a coincidence even to the math connection i ll confess that i ve never eaten at polvos but as a nature photographer i ve certainly had my share of polvo reply georgettesullins feb 10 2012 14 16 59 several coincidences today i noticed you started blogging the same time i did september 2010 shoreacres referred me here and i see other friends have visited your site yesterday i posted about my encounter with guernica at moma back in the day i noticed you attended columbia in my post i mention my reason for being in ny to attend a seminar on your campus looking forward to more visits reply steve schwartzman feb 10 2012 14 26 50 i m a fan of coincidences too so i m glad to hear that you started blogging the same month i did and that you have a connection to columbia and speaking of coincidences i left a comment on shoreacres s blog last night pointing out that her father and mother turn out to have been born in the same years as mine since this is a blog about spanish i ll add that english speakers have fallen into the habit of pronouncing guernica as if it were guérnica in fact there is no accent mark on the spanish word which therefore is stressed on its middle syllable but then spanish speakers mangle their share of english words reply georgettesullins feb 10 2012 14 36 21 the most obvious thing for people who know me and i failed to mention above is i m originally from mexico teach spanish at our local community college and am involved in much consulting work re spanish pedagogy don t know how that slipped my mind in the comment i left above reply steve schwartzman feb 10 2012 14 54 13 ah with a name like georgette sullins i wouldn t have suspected a connection to mexico so i m glad you mentioned it now i understand your interest in this blog and as words are food for the mind i ll say buen provecho reply subhan zein mar 03 2012 17 42 14 hi steve i m glad to come across to your blog the idea of the blog is praiseworthy and if there was an award on originality you d be a very strong contender your blog is awesome please feel free to visit mine perhaps my poetry and flash fiction will entertain you dance dance under the rain http subhanzein wordpress com 2012 03 02 dance dance under the rain whirling towards the divinity http subhanzein wordpress com 2012 02 03 whirling towards the divinity 2 love is the water of life http subhanzein wordpress com 2012 02 22 love is the water of life a hug from my heart http subhanzein wordpress com 2012 02 29 pantun sz 012012 the scholar and the boatman http subhanzein wordpress com 2012 02 08 the scholar and the boatman two rupiah notes http subhanzein wordpress com 2012 02 19 two rupiah notes becoming human http subhanzein wordpress com 2012 02 26 becoming human chinese bamboo and paulo coelho http subhanzein wordpress com 2012 01 24 chinese bamboo and paulo coelho thank you and have a great weekend subhan zein reply steve schwartzman mar 03 2012 18 06 24 i m pleased that you find the idea of this blog praiseworthy i wish you well with your work reply subhan zein mar 03 2012 18 10 23 thank you very much you too warm regards from rainy canberra subhan zein reply john todaro apr 20 2012 20 25 01 compelling idea for a blog on a number of levels thanks too for your warm words today at mine reply steve schwartzman apr 20 2012 21 26 47 thanks and you re welcome i was wearing my nature photographer hat when i commented on your photo and post but wordpress led you to my first blog c est la vie reply robiniart feb 25 2013 22 14 40 i clicked the avatar thistle photo next to your name and ended up here i m going to follow you here on wordpress very interested in language lately most of the fans of my art are from mexico i don t speak spanish oops right i understand some i ve always always been interested in language since taking a linguistics class from haj ross at unt you may have heard of him http unt academia edu hajross reply steve schwartzman feb 25 2013 23 40 32 welcome i ve been interested in language since before i got involved with photography at the moment photography has the upper hand but i never stop delving into language as well thanks for this second link i do indeed know who ross is but i had no idea he was teaching in denton what a surprise you re lucky to have had a course with him reply robiniart feb 26 2013 10 29 24 i think he s been living and teaching in denton for decades he was one of my favorite professors i learned so much in his class and i want to say that he was barefoot a lot haha reply norman f kolb jun 04 2013 14 18 24 one of the founders of blackstone the very successful financing company is steve schwartzman the other was pete peterson both double letters in their names would that be a form of alteration when i read your quickie bio i realized that you were not that s s i was thinking of but who cares money and huge success do not fall on everyone for sure you have a gift of clarity of language he probably needs one of ambiguity obfuscation and double meaning at least a lot of deals may need those qualities clarity and single meaning don t seem to be important in contract negotiation as they do in contract language i read that mr schwartzman not you spent one million dollars to celebrate his 60th or 70th birthday i am going to look for your photos best wishes norm kolb reply steve schwartzman jun 04 2013 14 38 34 i ve occasionally thought it would be nice to have some of the wealth of that other steve schwartzman but as you point out i have treasures of other kinds nowadays primarily linguistic and photographic during the years when i taught math clarity was of the utmost importance i could never be in a field e g politics where obfuscation is practiced and valued in any case thanks for your good wishes reply ladyofthecakes feb 12 2014 01 58 05 great blog not sure why i ve only just stumbled across it today reply steve schwartzman feb 12 2014 06 30 45 thanks your arrival at this point will give you many entries to browse back through if you re so inclined reply jim green may 14 2014 15 25 48 thank you steve for aiding and abetting intellectual curiosity it would be wonderful to be able to peruse what you ve written in book form have you considered on demand publishing with or without crowdfunding or such reply steve schwartzman may 14 2014 17 38 54 and thanks for your appreciation of my aiding and abetting intellectual curiosity yes i ve thought about on demand publishing and even more so about some e books both for language and photography but i haven t brought any out yet reply jim green may 15 2014 13 35 19 well i offer my encouragement and will stay tuned reply steve schwartzman may 15 2014 14 20 19 thank you reply coastalcrone jun 29 2014 15 45 21 thank you for your recent visit and comment on my blog i will enjoy exploring your blogs i live on the texas gulf coast and enjoy trying to go with native plants my degree is in english and my math is rather weak but i appreciate the logic of math my spanish is limited but i enjoy the origins and connections of languages reply steve schwartzman jun 29 2014 16 00 56 welcome this is a good place to come for someone who enjoys the origins and connections of languages reply anyone4curryandotherthings jan 28 2017 23 36 14 thanks for pointing me into this your direction on my own blog and glad i am you did but i only hope this site is still going since the last comment date is june 2014 anyhow i clicked follow and we will see whats happening re your name schwartzman in german as you well know means schwarzer mann but where does this name originally stem from from the profession of schornsteinfeger which were always completely black from the dirt in the chimneys or reply steve schwartzman jan 29 2017 05 40 51 till you mentioned it i hadn t noticed that no one had commented on this about page for more than two years still the blog is active and you can go to the main page at https wordconnections wordpress com and scroll back through recent entries if you d like i did receive a notification confirming your subscription welcome i ll add that this etymology blog arouses much less interest than the nature photography one which i don t find surprising the website ancestry com says of the name schwartzman that it s a descriptive nickname for a dark skinned or black haired man i don t know if that s correct but it matches what i ve always assumed reply mariosphere feb 25 2017 23 36 11 steve a belated thank you for your comment in my blog back in 2011 like you my attention has been rerouted to other activities i see that you have an interest in etymology me too but i m broadly interested in dictionaries and thesauri reply steve schwartzman feb 26 2017 02 16 12 it s good to hear from you tempus fugit doesn t it reply mariosphere feb 26 2017 11 40 13 as dumbledore once reportedly said words can be the most powerful magic as a photographer what s your take on selfies reply gabby avila jan 11 2019 16 01 06 i believe coincidence is an amazing path of great encounters and revelations in life i am grade two teacher in alberta canada i teach at a spanish bilingual school and we teach math in spanish i do not agree with it whatsoever and i am looking for sustainable arguments to make the government to re consider and fix this mistake i would love to know your thoughts since this has to do with language abstraction and the acquisition of a foreign language thanks a lot for your blog gabby reply steve schwartzman jan 11 2019 17 16 43 ah coincidences i m always open to them and glad when they happen i spent an enjoyable few weeks in mostly alberta close to a year and a half ago pictures from which i showed in various posts on my nature photography blog https portraitsofwildflowers wordpress com tag alberta can you tell me a little more about how your school teaches math in spanish does that mean that all the grade two math is taught in spanish and never in english if so does it imply that one or more other subjects are taught only in english and never in spanish if that segregation exists who decides what language each subject is to be taught in and what is the rationale for the separation in the next grade do the languages reverse so that math is taught only in english reply wam bwv jan 12 2019 12 12 21 thanks steve it is amazing how another coincidence happened in this chain with you and your trip to alberta i will sit down and answer your questions great questions i also believe that the answers are always embedded into proper questioning just like equations wow i just realized the word equations and questions are sooo close for spelling cheers reply leave a comment cancel reply δ email subscription enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up rss posts rss comments if you encounter an unfamiliar technical term in any of these postings check the glossary in the bar across the top of the page spanish links diccionario de la real academia española diccionario médico biológico histórico y etimológico el candidato meláncolico la llave del 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