Anybody know the origin of this utterance? Anybody know
of alternative utterances that mean roughly the same thing?
Anyone know translations of this utterance into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Latin, Nahuatl etc.?
William
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- Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:21 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Uh Oh!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7673
- Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:20 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: SOME ACRONYMS FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT
- Replies: 20
- Views: 38733
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:08 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: SOME ACRONYMS FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT
- Replies: 20
- Views: 38733
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:00 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: RUBESCENT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10809
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:08 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times
- Replies: 287
- Views: 952447
When traveling from Arizona to visit relatives in Utah and Idaho we have two routes to choose from, the Lake Mead crossing or the Lake Powell crossing. My wife prefers Lake Powell, but I prefer the Lake Mead route, because, as everyone should know, Lake Mead is a dam site better than Lake Powell. Wi...
- Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:35 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: English has hit the Billion mark
- Replies: 28
- Views: 60086
- Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:32 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: English has hit the Billion mark
- Replies: 28
- Views: 60086
Parabrisas, paragolpes, and chupacabras are composed of a verb and a noun. Anteojos is a prefix (preposition) plus a noun. Vuelacerca is a verb + an adverb and marimacha (or marimacho) is two nouns. What I meant to say is that words are not created ad libitum as they seem to be in English. Hmmm, BD...
- Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:01 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: English has hit the Billion mark
- Replies: 28
- Views: 60086
You can easily place a noun before another noun in Germanic languages and turn words of different classes into whatever, but neither is possible in Romance languages, which rely very much on noun + de + noun and verbs ending in -ar, -er, and -ir or something similar to that. I'll take your word for...
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:01 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: English has hit the Billion mark
- Replies: 28
- Views: 60086
- Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Rubber bands
- Replies: 29
- Views: 97584
- Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:04 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Negative Liberty - Positive Liberty
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15256
Negative Liberty - Positive Liberty
Dick Meyer's article posted on the CBS website reminded me of George Orwell's 1984, though Meyer never mentions Orwell or 1984.
William
William
- Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:17 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Minnesota-isms...anyone???
- Replies: 21
- Views: 140900
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:06 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Torturing the English language
- Replies: 62
- Views: 130327
When it comes to foreign policy goals, Clinton administration, Bush administration same same, the differences in execution - aside from being due to Clinton's being more knowledgeable and better prepared - are mainly a result of the fact that the latter was not burdened by a domestic agenda of «sta...
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:50 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Torturing the English language
- Replies: 62
- Views: 130327
Henri, I haven't yet had time to read the article you posted about Human Rights Watch. I really don't know much about that organization or whether they have a political agenda such as characterizes the NYT and the Guardian. Frankly, Henri, the following made me chuckle. Thank you for the laugh: Why ...
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:19 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Torturing the English language
- Replies: 62
- Views: 130327
I understand that it is painful to have consider that one's own country engages in practices which it justly condemns when performed by (certain) others. But to my mind, the consequences of acquiescing in them, either passively by ignoring reports, or actively by saying that all these reports arise...