Spheterize
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Spheterize
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
I've seen on a webpage that it means "to make something one's own; to appropriate".
WQ
I thought I'd seen this before
katy
from here:Spheterizeyou'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 @**?)
katy
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Katy:
"The Spheterization of the Supine Woman."
Apo
Very nice, Katy! It reminds me of that famous painting,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.
"The Spheterization of the Supine Woman."
Apo
'Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.' -Max Planck
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
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PalindromeThe 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."
Apo
'Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.' -Max Planck
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you can read it with the same way from the right to the left
ειναι καρκινική επιγραφή.
ειναι καρκινική επιγραφή.
Last edited by astrokatastro on Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:40 am, edited 1 time in total.
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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! Wearing geese is sooo last millenium. This is the classic vulture headdress. Accessorized, of course, with rose-colored glasses.
gailr
Silly Katy! Wearing geese is sooo last millenium. This is the classic vulture headdress. Accessorized, of course, with rose-colored glasses.
gailr
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