Well, there's alot to be said for "swimming against the current." You may not get very far, but you get a good work out, and it's easier to find your way home again.

Apo

I first read this phrase "Der Untergang des Abendlandes" in a German reader Peter hat Pech that I had as a boy. At first, I took it to mean something like "the tunnel of the evening (shadow)lands," but being the avid dictionary cross- referencer that I was (and am), I quickly saw...

"Swaddled babies were then often hung on a wall peg."

I don't think that the CPS would approve of this practice today!

Apo

Henri: If, Apo, you wish to undermine my theory, what you have to do is introduce empirical evidence which shows that, despite the new guidelines, the incidence and severity of hazing has not decreased. Such evidence may exist, but until such time as it it produced, I shall continue to maintain that...

I think in a way you are correct, Henri, (may a god not curse me for saying so) but there is a metaphysic and a meta-logic to Tao ( the real Tao, not the so-called Tao) that looks very much like a denial of duality: something is true and not true at the same time. It is very much like the distinctio...

LOL, Larry! Henri, Evolution, Schevolution, materialist-naturalists have no choice, but to believe it. Who made all this happen? Theist: God did it! Deist: God just wanted to see what would happen! Atheist: No one did anything, what do you mean? Why would a random set of chemical reactions wonder ab...

Truly, Larry, you have found some Gems here. Thanks! And you, too, BD! And I just thank Henri 'cause he's so explicit about the problem! I believe in naturalness before formality (while leaving a place for formality), and, also, naturalness before logic; afterall, language is only a quasi-logical sy...

Wonderful explanation, Doc! I always wondered where peple got the idea that the twelve days of Christmas were before Christmas (maybe the Advent calendar). Epiphany has always marked the end of Christmastide, but being the ecumenical Anglican that I am I have nothing against starting the whole "...

"There are more things in speech and dialect than are dreamt of in your grammar, dear mamawsandy!" I am a "they", "them", "their" person myself. I call it the "false plural of ambiguity", Tim, I think, shortened it to "fpoa". One must reali...

What about Dada? Or has that poetic license expired? Or was it just a Fake for the talentless?

I hate Dada!

Anti-pro-anti-artist, and pre-post-modern-non-enthusiast!

Apo, still living in my Romantic Period.

As BD says: anteantepenultimate or, I found preantepenultimate!

Nothing in the dictionary. I guess in English we are stuck with the phrase, "before the antepenultimate."

Apo

Quote: By calling the Graner-England incidents at Abu Ghraib, frat pranks, no way diminishes the suffering of the prisoners, but neither does it suggest in itself State-sanctioned torture or even abuse [emphasis addedMHD]. I take it, Henri, that the addition of "Note the horrors and large numb...

TAO called TAO is not TAO. -Lao Tzu

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. -Lao Tzu

Apo the Silent

HATE and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.

Catullus Poem 85

For deeper commentary:

Catullus: Poem 85

Apo

Schmuck sounds right to me, too, Larry!

Apo