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Well, I'm not dxb, but the adjective for San Marino is sammarinese.
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Oh, you saw my error! I caught it just as I'd already posted it, so took it out right away! So sorry! I was just writing too hurriedly!
But, yes, the sammarinese--unusual word that I hadn't memorized but remembered was interesting in its own right. Thank you, max!
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It's a cross thread, really, since sammarinese is clearly an elision, from san marinese. Indeed Emanuela said elsewhere that Italians would still say it sanmarinese, but among the sammarinese themselves, it is always said and spelled with the double m.
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When you respond to one of max's posts there's no hiding treppenwitze from him. He gets the text emailed to him.
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Ah! I see, Faldage. Oh, well; sorry, Max. But we should capitalize Sammarinese, shouldn't we? In English, at least?
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For some of our new members, Faldage's "treppenwitze"= the snappy retorts that only come to you on stairs as you are leaving. The French version is "l'esprit de l'escalier".
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sammarinese, treppenwitze, l'esprit de l'escalier--stay around here long enough, wwh, and those not familiar with terms mentioned here will both recognize and enjoy what gradually (and sometimes not so gradually) develops as a special little AWAD lexicon. I had tried so hard to recall treppenwitze and l'esprit de l'escalier just this past week, so it is very gratifying to find them both here this morning! And max's sammarinese as well! This is a bonus morning for terms gone by!
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Funicular reminded me of "funis"=rope, and rope reminded me of "cord" which reminded me of "silver cord"....
Way at the end of a long quote:
Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 (KJV)
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low; Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
I read somewhere a long time ago, that "the silver cord" is
the symbolic tie of love that binds us to our mother.
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And "cord" reminded me of "tether". I wondered what etymology of "tether" was. AHD says:
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English tedir, tethir, from Old Norse tjdhr.
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JFTR (as long as we're all learning), it seems to be rendered as treppenwitz, 24.5kg to 129g.
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