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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 13:14:07 GMT 7
www.wordnik.comA great website to look up anything, always loved the power of words over numbers. If you're into words then go to that site. 'Namaste' is one of my faves. Post yours up.
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Post by rubl on Jul 29, 2015 17:30:14 GMT 7
Ah words! Physical violence is a sign of verbal incompetence. Mind you, be careful who you tell so
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Post by AyG on Jul 29, 2015 22:23:05 GMT 7
Sorry. It's really rather feeble.
I'd wondered what it might say about "wen" meaning a blemish or flaw. It completely missed that sense, despite examples such as:
"And ye schulen offre brent sacrifice, in to swettest odour to the Lord, o calf of the droue, o ram, and seuene lambren of o yeer, with out wem;"
from Numbers 29:2 in the Wycliffe translation of the Bible and, perhaps more importantly
"To which youre herte wilneth for to pace, Withouten wem of yow, thurgh foul or fair. Or if yow lyst to fleen as hye in the air As dooth an egle, whan that hym list to soore,"
from Chaucer's The Squire's Tale.
Must try harder.
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Post by pgrahmm on Jul 29, 2015 23:01:24 GMT 7
Chaucer is a good start.....But it is said:
It is said - No man is fully educated until he understands the COMPLETE works of Ralph Waldo Emerson....
I have read through a number of times....And each time the meanings/words/profoundness/revelations reveal a deeper root....Applicable timelessly.....
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Post by AyG on Jul 30, 2015 8:25:51 GMT 7
No man is fully educated until he understands the COMPLETE works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.... I have read through a number of times....And each time the meanings/words/profoundness/revelations reveal a deeper root....Applicable timelessly..... I didn't know that the Waldo books were so profound. Just silly cartoons and finding a figure in a crowd, I though.
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Post by siampolee on Jul 30, 2015 8:36:23 GMT 7
Well to me this man, Damon_Runyon was wizard with words. I have had many hours of enjoyment from his works which are those rare works(to me anyway)that can be read and re-read yet still provide a great humorous outcome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Runyon
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Post by rubl on Jul 30, 2015 14:37:14 GMT 7
At times I think the Anglo-Saxish from King Alfred the Great would be more easy for me than the 'interesting' mixture we've got after Vikings and Normans did their part. Of course, reasoned from a (Dutch) uncle's point of view.
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Post by me on Jul 30, 2015 14:42:22 GMT 7
At times I think the Anglo-Saxish from King Alfred the Great would be more easy for me than the 'interesting' mixture we've got after Vikings and Normans did their part. Of course, reasoned from a (Dutch) uncle's point of view. But at least you can ask for sex in Swedish Dutch and English with one word.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2015 14:43:24 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Jul 30, 2015 14:46:30 GMT 7
^^me
and then siampolee puts me in the slammer For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge I guess
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2015 14:49:21 GMT 7
At times I think the Anglo-Saxish from King Alfred the Great would be more easy for me than the 'interesting' mixture we've got after Vikings and Normans did their part. Of course, reasoned from a (Dutch) uncle's point of view. But at least you can ask for sex in Swedish Dutch and English with one word. What's the word? . Ok it's an English speaking site better not post it.
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Post by me on Jul 30, 2015 17:01:25 GMT 7
But at least you can ask for sex in Swedish Dutch and English with one word. What's the word? . Ok it's an English speaking site better not post it. Actually the other four letter word startin with S is common to Dutch German and Swedish too. Not sure if it was the Vikings or that orange guy but I bet the inhabitents soon called their conquers these two and others too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2015 20:20:23 GMT 7
A funny thing these days are people calling each other 'bae' do they actually know that's the Dutch word for 'poo'?
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Post by AyG on Jul 30, 2015 21:31:43 GMT 7
Still, we've been using the F-word since 1475, so I think we can claim it as our own. From Flen Flyys:
"Non sunt in cœli quia fuccant uuiuys of heli".
In translation, "they [the monks] are not in heaven because they forked the wives of Ely".
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