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#162092 - 09/26/06 04:03 AM Prelapsarian and bucolic
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5248 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	The positive side of beeing a non native English language and litterature lover is that a new word really comes to you blank, brand new. The neg. side is that you make mistakes, misspellings and miss guesses. I'm referring , not to prelapsarian of which we got the immediate explanation but to another word new to me in the fragment quote: bucolic . I had to look it up and expected a tantrum sort of a word. Great was my surprise that it meant: arcadian, rural and more of these peaceful words. I connected (at first sight ) bucolic with alcoholic, diabolic, workoholic,colic. This from memory, maybe there are more words ending in 'olic' that are not on the peaceful side of life. Or just on the bucolic side. Anyway I was surprised and I'm sure not the one who could explain it. One of you perhaps.
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#162093 - 09/26/06 06:26 AM Re: Prelapsarian and bucolic
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	*olic And that's just the common words.
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#162094 - 09/26/06 07:58 AM Re: Prelapsarian and bucolic
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	this isn't specifically about bucolic, but might lend some added insight: bucolic _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#162095 - 09/26/06 08:27 AM Re: Prelapsarian and bucolic
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	This is the best help I could find, Branny-Granny ( ); perhaps some real word-origin experts can add some enlightenment as to whether the -olic meaning is also applicable to other words in the list: bucolic 1523, from L. bucolicus, from Gk. boukolikos "rustic," from boukolos "herdsman," from bous "cow" + -kolos "tending," related to L. colere "to till (the ground), cultivate, dwell, inhabit" (the root of colony). From: Online Etymology Dictionary
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#162096 - 09/26/06 08:27 AM Re: Prelapsarian and bucolic
Aramis addict Registered: 05/17/05 Posts: 456 Loc: SE US	Perhaps one would hope to frolic in a place that is bucolic . _________________________ ÅΓª╥┐↕§
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#162097 - 09/26/06 11:30 AM Re: Prelapsarian and bucolic
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5248 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Thanks. Jackie-be-Lucky , for the Online Etymology Dictionary to add to my favorites. I try to make head and tail from their information. I try to keep my replies in one post so: etaoin , I visited your pleasant 2005 nautically bucolic thread and although I think your wife has the right of it I would give it a 2006 try by calling it hydrarcadian.(not a total beauty, but see some seagrass waving and the occasional seacow) Aramis II Yes! Frolic . !! Positive! Symbolic came to my mind as a word that takes no sides.
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#162098 - 09/26/06 04:43 PM Re: Prelapsarian and bucolic
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	> I think your wife has the right of it say what?! _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#162099 - 09/26/06 06:54 PM Re: Prelapsarian and bucolic
nancyk addict Registered: 03/09/01 Posts: 508 Loc: Metro Detroit (MI)	>> When I asked spouse Laverne she immediately replied "There probably isn't one," << Probably confusing Dale's reply to your post with a post by you, eta.
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#162100 - 09/27/06 01:43 AM Re: Prelapsarian and bucolic
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5248 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Quote: > I think your wife has the right of it say what?! Excuse me, Etaoin. A mistake.(Senectitude). It was indeed dalehileman who was referring to his spouse's opinion. Sorry. Still it was a nice thread to read.
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#162101 - 09/27/06 07:21 AM Huh?
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	Where's Dale's reply? It doesn't show up here on little Mr Laptop.
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