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- Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:55 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: thrice subjunctive
- Replies: 21
- Views: 50562
The world without end is the traditional English of the Latin saecula saeculorum , which is not all that easy to translate in itself. I think the original is Greek, so we should think of it along the lines of aeons upon aeons . Of course, there is nothing in this that contradicts Big Bang theory unl...
- Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:46 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: thrice subjunctive
- Replies: 21
- Views: 50562
Very nice, Dude! I bewail the change in my prayer book from: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen TO Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the begining, is now ...
- Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:07 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Take My Privacy, Please !
- Replies: 33
- Views: 60527
For those of you still struggling under the burden of Microsoft Windows, may I suggest you take a look at Calendar Magic . It has a conversion tool that will convert almost any units you can think of, and many you probably couldn't. It's got a scientific calculator and a time zone tool (so you can w...
- Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:11 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: MOLLYCODDLE
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15482
- Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:01 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Take My Privacy, Please !
- Replies: 33
- Views: 60527
- Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:09 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: main - intensifying adverb?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 51720
- Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:36 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: main - intensifying adverb?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 51720
- Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:32 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Semitically speaking
- Replies: 11
- Views: 47991
I like Semist -- thanks, Flam! It would probably ring the wrong bell in the hearts of most readers -- not that the bell is wrong, you see, but that it rings at wrongness -- it rings in the heart because I think that's where we know things are wrong -- so this bell is ringing wrongness. However, it's...
- Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:27 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: main - intensifying adverb?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 51720
People who watch too much North-American telly tend towards a state of moral purity. Let me give you an example: Garzo: How are you? Square-eyes: I am good. Garzo: Do you mean that you are in a state of moral purity? Square-eyes: No, I mean that I am well; I've just been watching too much North-Amer...
- Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:04 am
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Semitically speaking
- Replies: 11
- Views: 47991
Semitically speaking
What do you call someone who studies Semitic languages? Joke answers are acceptable: would I try to stop you? However, a colleague wrote Semitist in a paper, and now we can't decide whether it's right or wrong. I think I would have written Semiticist . Then we'd decided to settle on Shemi until we c...
- Sat May 14, 2005 6:44 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Complicated arab word
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14147
- Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:30 am
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: Synaesthetic idiom formation
- Replies: 15
- Views: 65964
Synaesthetic idiom formation
A good friend of my is synaesthetic. Example: she looks at the horid swirls of greens and blues in my spare bedroom's curtains and says that they're in G minor! She has perfect pitch (or should that be a good eye for colour?) and relates musical pitch to colour: she sees a notes colour and hears a c...
- Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:14 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Honesty Pot
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19051
Quid is the Latin word for what? . Therefore, it is generally used in the UK and Ireland by classically-trained paupers when confronted with money. The honesty pot is a place to put the money for a purchase when the seller is not present. Honesty pots are generally not found in the showrooms of BMW...
- Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:00 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Shir Shishi shells shea shells on the shea shore
- Replies: 18
- Views: 38607
Shir Shishi shells shea shells on the shea shore
I know all you sinologists were probably reciting this at primary school, but I still think it's fun.
Take a look at 'The lion-eating poet in the stone den' for a very good reason not to romanise Chinese or eat lions!
-- Garzo.
Take a look at 'The lion-eating poet in the stone den' for a very good reason not to romanise Chinese or eat lions!
-- Garzo.
- Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:50 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Habemus papam
- Replies: 24
- Views: 55693