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Re: apple or banana?
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Myridon
Yesterday at 01:30 PM
I don't read Hebrew but it seems to be one word. Strong' Concordance suggests that the Hebrew word is "perhaps of foriegn derivation". Gesenius's Lexicon says "where the Indian fig, or Musa paradisiaca, Germ Paradies=feigenbaum, with large leaves is
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Re: Hair
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 01:12 PM
and along balding lines: pilgarlic and kwyjibo
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facial hair
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dnsm4
Yesterday at 01:06 PM
beards, eh? how timely. my 16 year-old has noticed a few chin hairs, and now wants to shave. I wanted to do the fatherly thing and show him how, except I haven't shaved in over 25 years, so my credentials may be suspect.
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Re: Hair
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Myridon
Yesterday at 12:48 PM
glabrous
glabrescent
dipilous
slightly off
nudicaudate - having a hairless tail.
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Re: Hair
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 12:43 PM
Genesis 27:11 (KJV):
Quote:And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
These days I only see or hear smooth, in relation to absence of hair, in commercials touting the
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Re: Hair
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twosleepy
Yesterday at 11:59 AM
bald
hairless
don't know if it's a word, but apilose
follicle-challenged :0)
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Re: Hair
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of troy
Yesterday at 11:52 AM
well to start, there is hairless.. (as in hairless dogs, hairless cats, hairless mole rats)
is there a more more scientific word? there is a medical term (ap????)(i know it when i see, but i can't remember it right now for the life of me!)
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Hair
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ocelotl
Yesterday at 11:46 AM
does anyone know if there is word that is the opposite of hirsute?
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Re: "Go to lunch" or " Go for lunch"?
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 11:19 AM
>Not that it bothers me much, but this one and that one are totally incomprehensible to me. I must be naif and/or a foreigner.
it's not necessarily either (or both) of those things, Bran.
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Re: apple or banana?
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 11:15 AM
comparing apples and oranges again, jheem?
-ron o.
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Re: apple or banana?
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zmjezhd
Yesterday at 11:11 AM
Details are a little hazy ...
Of the two PIE roots *HebVl- and *meHlo-, the former is represented in 5 or maybe 6 branches (Celtic, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, Italic/Oscan). The latter in, at least, Italic/Latin and Hellenic and just maybe
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Re: "Go to lunch" or " Go for lunch"?
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BranShea
Yesterday at 11:08 AM
Not that it bothers me much, but this one and that one are totally incomprehensible to me. I must be naif and/or a foreigner.
> Lisp nerds might pose the question: (lunch-p). (There are functions called predicates in Lisp which traditio
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Re: Happy Mothers' Day!!!
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BranShea
Yesterday at 10:54 AM
Yes, messy and decadent. Much better to take your mother out for ,to , at, with, or on lunch.
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Re: History Rules!
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Alex Williams
Yesterday at 09:48 AM
Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic I don't have anything useful to add; just had to state my admiration for a guy whose punctuation is a thing of beauty.
A parenthetical remark, as it were?
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Re: apple or banana?
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BranShea
Yesterday at 09:28 AM
Maybe the Dutch reviewer ;- ) invented the whole thing to make the intro of her article more intriguing. I've got time now to do some searching.
Definitely the dummest thing I've done and I think a dead end street. From what I tried on a
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Re: apple or banana?
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 09:03 AM
I dunno; it seems odd that the onliest ghit for "figs of Eve" is right here in this very thread.
-ron o.
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Re: Capitalization of eponyms?
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The Pook
Yesterday at 07:32 AM
Originally Posted By: FaldageHello, The Pook. yeah g'day
Quote:I think with all that blood rushing to your head, what with you hanging upside down off the bottom of the earth, has interefered with your thought process. Maybe
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Re: apple or banana?
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BranShea
Yesterday at 07:30 AM
>The bit about leaf size is also irrelevant
Nothing is relevant as to the point of the story. I only still wished this part could be found by someone (Zmj?), because it seems such a total idiocy.
"The fig leaf comes from a tr
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Re: Capitalization of eponyms?
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latishya
Yesterday at 06:53 AM
Originally Posted By: Faldage It's, like, synecdoche.
How excellent! I nearly replied to him saying it was synecdoche but decided my English was not strong enough to tell a native speaker something about his own language.
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Re: apple or banana?
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Faldage
Yesterday at 06:40 AM
At one time I had the notion that it became the apple becauase the OE word æppel was a generic word for any kind of fruit. I also have a little note stuck to that entry in my Junk Drawer Memory® that says that's not correct. Not the bit about æppel
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Re: Capitalization of eponyms?
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Faldage
Yesterday at 06:28 AM
Hello, The Pook. I think with all that blood rushing to your head, what with you hanging upside down off the bottom of the earth, has interefered with your thought process. Maybe you don't realize that USA is United States of America. It's just a
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Re: "Go to lunch" or " Go for lunch"?
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The Pook
05/11/08 09:54 PM
Hey are you trying for zmjezhd's position of chief etymologist??
Btw, wasnn't that a great try in the League Test the other day? Poor NZers - a valiant effort but no match for Aussie superiority!
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Re: Capitalization of eponyms?
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The Pook
05/11/08 09:51 PM
Originally Posted By: latishya Originally Posted By: FaldageThe A in USA is eponymic.
As is the Saud in Saudi Arabia.
I don't think a letter can be an eponym can it? Doesn't it have to be a word? America is an eponym, as
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