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more awesome bitchy scholarship
OK, so, background: Latin words with initial [f], such as "facere", "to do", get an initial [h] in medieval Castillian (that is, Spanish), which is later dropped in the pronunciation (but not the spelling) of modern Castillian, such as "hacer", "to do". Some people claim the Basque are involved. These theories are not so good. But ( Read more... ) -
coffee
Did I really not know before that black coffee has, basically, no calories? -
bad translation #999, martial i.23
Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris
et dant convivam balnea sola tibi.
mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses:
iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.
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Your party invitation
only goes to guys you bathe with.
But not to me? A revelation:
You hate to see me naked. -
don't tell the quebecois about the you-know-what
On my jar of peach jam:
INGREDIENTS:
sugar, peaches, pectin, concentrated lemon juice
INGRÉDIENTS:
sucre, pêche, jus de citron concentré -
i'm not the king of comedy
When I was a teenager I went through a period where I read a lot of Kurt Vonnegut novels. This is not terribly surprising. It wasn't until the very end of my Vonnegut phase, or just after it, that I found out that most people seem to think he is a "funny" author. This was a surprise, because I found him to be a "suicidally depressing" author, the ( Read more... ) -
boredom
'They [ = “men of rare sensibility”] do not fear boredom as much as work without pleasure; they actually require a lot of boredom if their work is to succeed. For thinkers and all sensitive spirits, boredom is that disagreeable “windless calm” of the soul that precedes a happy voyage and cheerful winds. They have to bear it an dmust wait for its ( Read more... ) -
inbetweenness
This is probably the wrong blog for this post ( Read more... ) -
it is a habit
I had a weird frustration today that discombobulated me much more that it should have (for it is nothing that requires your concern, so no worries), and I got a bit sad, so I purchased some books from Amazon, because it was too late to go to a proper bookstore. They are mostly comics, though one is a book I've wanted for a skajillion years, the ( Read more... ) -
oh, foucaultpaws!
In this article I'm reading, "What is an author?", Foucault uses (in translation) the term "family resemblances" and the term "game" to describe writing... but then he goes and whines about "the problematic nature of the word 'work' and the unity it designates." Apparently he hasn't read Wittgenstein after all! Well, it's 1969... No, surely he'd ( Read more... ) -
verbi inferni: quin
Here beginneth a series on Latin words which, for whatever reason, don't seem to stick well to my brain, in hopes that by ratting them out, they will finally choose to linger ( Read more... )