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Congratulations Emanuella!
This saying is so popular that we use it as “Piano se va lontano” and everybody understands “piano” and “lontano” though not being Spanish words.
What could be the English version? “Slow and steady win the race” sounds familiar to me but I’m not sure if I’ve made out part of it.
Juan Maria.
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Juanie-baby, I see you've only got 6 more until you reach the century mark. Keep 'em coming, Kid!
I loved what you wrote in political correctness. Goes to show what a wonderful person you are.
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Well, if you all heard a big whoosh, that was I,
exhaling. Just crossed over to 501 posts (hurry back, Jo!)
and I'm still an addict.
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Jackie,
Maybe that young whippersnapper* Jazzoctopus's theory is right: you gotta wait till you post 800 to transcend to the next level. Man, graduation could become exponentially next-to-impossible after a while.
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* etymology of "whippersnapper," anyone?
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from the "Word Detective", fossicked in the usual manner:
"Whippersnapper" is a somewhat archaic term, rarely heard today outside of movies, and then usually from the mouth of a character portrayed as chronologically-challenged and hopelessly old-fashioned to boot. A "whippersnapper" is an impertinent young person, usually a young man, whose lack of proper respect for the older generation is matched only by his laziness and lack of motivation to better himself.
One might imagine that the term derives from the understandable temptation among more productive citizens to "snap a whip" at such sullen layabouts, but the whips in question actually belonged to the whippersnappers themselves. Such ne'er-do-wells were originally known as "whip snappers" in the 17th century, after their habit of standing around on street corners all day, idly snapping whips to pass the time. The term was been based on the already-existing phrase, "snipper-snapper," also meaning a worthless young man, but in any case, "whip snapper" became "whippersnapper" fairly rapidly.
Though "whippersnapper" originally referred to a young man with no visible ambition, the term has changed somewhat over the years, and today is more likely to be applied to a youngster with an excess of both ambition and impertinence.
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>> fossicked Tsuwm, I didn't know you hail from Down Under. Enjoyed the explanation, you old whippersnapper!  Gee--could there really be such a thing as an antique whippersnapper ??
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Maybe that young whippersnapper* Jazzoctopus's theory is right.
whippersnapper!?
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>>Maybe that young whippersnapper* Jazzoctopus's theory is right.
whippersnapper!?
...if the name fits...oh, that's another thread.
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Now now, we can't let this timeless, gargantuan thread sink into the recesses of extinction can we? Get back up to the top of the page!
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So is there someplace where all of this taxonomy of heirarchy is written down or is it all verbal lore?
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