Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to Alphaday 5, Season XVIII. As usual there\u2019s plenty lined up for us to savour as it trickles into our inboxes. You know \u2026 it\u2019s like Christmas and birthdays; we get that little fluttering the day before, wondering about all the pleasant surprises that are in store for us. Never mind if we don\u2019t run away with a fistful of marks; the excitement is mainly about how fellow Alphas approach the theme and the different opinions they express. That\u2019s what we learn from, and that\u2019s why Alphadays are special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s the agenda for Alphaday 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The main Alpha news<\/strong> is really Log material, but I\u2019ll still mention the two Alphas who have just published their latest books, a novel by Ros and a collection of short stories by Phil. We\u2019re proud of you! Ros treated us to a zoom launch which she\u2019d arranged with a fellow novelist who\u2019s also recently published a novel, and it was a fascinating event to join in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was one thing in the general news <\/strong>that caught my attention, as it\u2019s one of those annual events that I usually enjoy. The word of the year<\/em>. The big dictionaries announce which word in their dictionary has shot up in popularity by increased usage. The word \u201cthe\u201d may be the word that\u2019s most frequently used, but its popularity doesn\u2019t change from one year to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Collins Dictionary announced that the honour for 2021 goes to the abbreviation \u201cNFT\u201d. I was disappointed as it meant nothing to me. I found out that it stands for \u201cnon-fungible token\u201d \u2026 that still didn\u2019t mean a thing to me. Apparently it\u2019s a certificate of ownership of a work of art. Is that like \u2018copyright\u2019 then? A copyright certificate that doesn\u2019t go mouldy? Wrong again. \u201cFungible\u201d is a legal term meaning \u2018interchangeable\u2019 that\u2019s been in use since the 1640s. It\u2019s derived from a Latin word to do with \u2018function\u2019 not \u2018fungus\u2019. Right, so my ignorance has been mended, I\u2019m glad to say, but \u2026 I still haven\u2019t ever heard, seen or noticed this famous NFT abbreviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, have you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 5, Season XVIII. As usual there\u2019s plenty lined up for us to savour as it trickles into our inboxes. You know \u2026 it\u2019s like Christmas and birthdays;…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphaday-bulletins","tag-alphaday-bulletins-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}