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Spheterize

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:05 pm
by wquinette
I've seen this one and I'm curious about its origins.
I've seen on a webpage that it means "to make something one's own; to appropriate".

WQ

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:27 pm
by KatyBr
I thought I'd seen this before
you're right Gailr, even Google has disavowed any knowledge, repeating it's much hated do you mean....?
However I found it on two sources and I love the sound of it while saying it.

Now, do not spheterize.... Oh no, Thou shalt not spheterize... an emerging word, use it, all of you to produce those lovely Huh? stares we linguists often get in the course of normal conversations.

Yippie! I can even hear it on a new country song, *wailing heard*
then:
Don't you spheterize my honey, sonny.
don't take ma truck off it's blocks,
leave my satallite dish in its place
alongside my trailer ,
and 'llow ma dogs to sleep under the porch
Oooooooooh, don't ya go spheterizing nothin' Ah gots,
or fer sure I'll be calling the cops.
(wouldn't it be "or I'll be shooting yer @**?)
from here:Spheterize








katy

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:26 pm
by Brazilian dude
Isn't it suspicious that both spheterize and abscond should crop up in the same day?

Wondering subjunctiveless dude

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:38 pm
by KatyBr
hmmmm strange phenema(sic), Batman

Katy
always wanted to use that line.

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:25 pm
by Apoclima
Katy:
Don't you spheterize my honey, sonny.
don't take ma truck off it's blocks,
leave my satallite dish in its place
alongside my trailer ,
and 'llow ma dogs to sleep under the porch
Oooooooooh, don't ya go spheterizing nothin' Ah gots,
or fer sure I'll be calling the cops.
Very nice, Katy! It reminds me of that famous painting,
"The Spheterization of the Supine Woman."

Apo

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:30 pm
by KatyBr
hmmmm, do I hear the unmistakable sound of whisltling dirty ditties again? So famous I never heard of it, who painted it?

Katy
anyone know of the etymology of this word?

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:27 pm
by gailr
Diligent research reveals only that it is of Greek origin, which is more than I found the first time I looked it up. This calls for someone with a serious dictionary...
gailr

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:15 am
by KatyBr
Gailr, is that goose heavy?


katy :roll: :D

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:32 am
by Apoclima
I can't find it anywhere!

Maja Clothed

Oh, well, I think it was by Picasso anyway!

Apo

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:17 pm
by KatyBr
it sounds like a Picasso.

Katy

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:16 pm
by astrokatastro
it seems to me a greek word. I take a place or rang that i don't belong to me.

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:30 pm
by Apoclima
The ancient Greeks often put "ΝΙΨΟΝΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑΜΗΜΟΝΑΝΟΨΙΝ" (or, in mixed case with [modern] accents and divided into words, Νίψον ανομήματα μη μόναν όψιν: "Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin") on fountains (ps, ψ, is one letter in Greek, called psi), meaning "Wash the sin as well as the face."
Palindrome

Apo

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:52 am
by astrokatastro
you can read it with the same way from the right to the left
ειναι καρκινική επιγραφή.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:54 pm
by gailr
Thanks for the info, astrokatastro. I also found some links to Greek poetry using parts of this word, but could not read them.

Silly Katy! :D Wearing geese is sooo last millenium. This is the classic vulture headdress. Accessorized, of course, with rose-colored glasses.
gailr

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:17 pm
by KatyBr
Ah yes, Silly katy, trix and vultures are for Kids! lol
I love the eyewear. How This millenium! How outré of me not to notice.

Katy