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- Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:07 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Good word suggestion: suffrage
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10623
Re: Good word suggestion: suffrage
Hello Perry! What a wonderful idea! Thank you! I would love to hear more about it. Will you write a book? Or are you sending out newsletters? Or what? And Victor Frankl – here you have an incredible example of someone who would not be defeated by circumstances (I apologize profoundly for the simplif...
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 2:30 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Good word suggestion: suffrage
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10623
Re: Good word suggestion: suffrage
Hello Perry and Philip – Thanks for your interest. I will try to give you a reasonably brief answer. You know of course that I have stolen this sentence from Albert Camus and that it is the second part of a statement in his "Myth of Sisyphus". The first part says that "the struggle it...
- Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:49 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Good word suggestion: suffrage
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10623
Re: Good word suggestion: suffrage
How interesting! Many thanks!
Incidentally, there is a similar meaning in German, where "to suffer" means "leiden". "Jemanden gut leiden können" means to like or even love somebody very much.
Best regards from Germany
Winblad/Ruth
Incidentally, there is a similar meaning in German, where "to suffer" means "leiden". "Jemanden gut leiden können" means to like or even love somebody very much.
Best regards from Germany
Winblad/Ruth
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 8:17 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Good word suggestion: suffrage
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10623
Re: Good word suggestion: suffrage
Dear Perry -
Many, many thanks for your message and your time!
With all my best regards and wishes
Ruth / Winblad
Many, many thanks for your message and your time!
With all my best regards and wishes
Ruth / Winblad
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:56 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Good word suggestion: suffrage
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10623
Good word suggestion: suffrage
Hi everybody -
How about suffrage for a good word? Has it anything to do with suffer? (I apologize for this very likely stupid question - still, I wonder).
Many thanks in advance
Winblad
How about suffrage for a good word? Has it anything to do with suffer? (I apologize for this very likely stupid question - still, I wonder).
Many thanks in advance
Winblad
- Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:23 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Quarantine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10266
Re: Quarantine
Stubborningly? A sign of illiteracy, perhaps? I can't even dream up a meaning for it. Yuck! :evil: " Many thanks! I am happy that I was right. The word sounds so ugly. As you say: yuck! It was in a text that I had to translate, written by an American person. Thanks for pointing out "res d...
- Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:18 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Quarantine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10266
Re: Quarantine
I wonder if it has anything to do with the biblical flood of forty days and nights. Yes, it does. But 40 days is a period that occurs quite frequently in the Bible (e.g. Exodus: Moses was with God 40 days and 40 nights). Quite complex, I believe. Incidentally I came across the word "stubbornin...
- Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Quarantine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10266
Re: Quarantine
Hello Slava -
yes, I think it does. Thanks very much for your attention. I am always intrigued by your comments.
The friendliest of greetings
Winblad / Ruth
yes, I think it does. Thanks very much for your attention. I am always intrigued by your comments.
The friendliest of greetings
Winblad / Ruth
- Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:39 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Quarantine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10266
Quarantine
Hello everybody!
I would like to suggest the word "quarantine" as a good word.
Happy Weekend
Winblad
I would like to suggest the word "quarantine" as a good word.
Happy Weekend
Winblad
- Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: boondoggle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3902
boondoggle
Hello!
This is Winblad again.
Today I came across the word "boondoggle".
Wouldn't that be a good Good Word?
What do you think?
With best regards from Italy (at the moment)
Winblad
This is Winblad again.
Today I came across the word "boondoggle".
Wouldn't that be a good Good Word?
What do you think?
With best regards from Italy (at the moment)
Winblad
- Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:27 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peter
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13029
Re: peter
In that case, wouldn't the god who condemned him to that punishment be himself frustrated beyond endurance. I thought the idea was eternal punishment. Of course, he can be seen as a parable for assembly-line or cubicle workers. Just goes to show the vanity and absurdity of human attempts to explain...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:27 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peter
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13029
Re: peter
Hello Perry - this is a very good question. Of course, nobody must do anything, unless they have to. It's just that I have noticed quite some time ago that this Camus quote says it all in a nutshell for me. If we want to understand Sisyphus, we must imagine him happy. But if you don't want to or hav...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 12:07 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peter
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13029
Re: peter
Slava: Thank you very much! You are a mind reader! Before I even could find the time to formulate an email message to you, you have already replied to it. Incidentally, I tried to send yesterday's good word to a friend via your website, but it never arrived. I'm mentioning this only because I've rea...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peter
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13029
Re: peter
Hello Philip -
That was quick! Many thanks!
Could you tell me when it was posted originally? I tried to find it in the archives but didn't succeed. There is no aplphabetical search option, only in the dictionary.
Best regards
Winblad
That was quick! Many thanks!
Could you tell me when it was posted originally? I tried to find it in the archives but didn't succeed. There is no aplphabetical search option, only in the dictionary.
Best regards
Winblad
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 8:17 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peter
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13029
peter
Hi -
thanks very much for today's good word! I was extremely delighted about it, given that my first name is Ruth.
Now I'd very much like to suggest "peter" as a good word. That would be very interesting, I think.
Many thanks again
Ruth Baldwin aka Winblad
thanks very much for today's good word! I was extremely delighted about it, given that my first name is Ruth.
Now I'd very much like to suggest "peter" as a good word. That would be very interesting, I think.
Many thanks again
Ruth Baldwin aka Winblad