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Page 4 of 6 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Topic Options #2761 - 08/19/01 03:09 PM Re: Verbal decapitation Keiva Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/04/01 Posts: 2605 "Greeks? we don' need no steenkin Greeks...!" Surely you wouldn't disrespect our dear Helen of Troy? Gentlemen, let's defend her honor and give this heel the Hectoring he deserves! Top #2762 - 08/19/01 03:21 PM Re: Verbal decapitation wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 "Greeks? we don' need no steenkin Greeks...!" Let us now praise all learned men, many of whom were Hellenes and their descendants or admirers.. Let us require maverick to eat a krater full of Welsh rabbit made with feta cheese, and wash it down with two gallons of retsina. A mild sentence for defaming a noble race. Top #2763 - 08/19/01 04:42 PM Re: Verbal decapitation Keiva Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/04/01 Posts: 2605 Let us require maverick to .. wash it down with two gallons of retsina" Wish I could see how he looks after that resina takes effect. Top #2764 - 08/19/01 06:25 PM Re: Verbal decapitation wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Actually, a racial slur is not typical maverick. I wonder if archie is using his system, trying to make trouble for maverick. Top #2765 - 08/19/01 06:39 PM Re: Verbal decapitation Keiva Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/04/01 Posts: 2605 From beheaded to decapitated to arhaeresis. From Anglo-Saxon to Latin to Greek. Ain't English wonderful? You can say the same thing so many ways, and be as clear or as obscure as you like! Top #2766 - 08/20/01 07:20 AM Re: Verbal decapitation maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 yeahbut. archie doesn't know how to do the sign I used, Dr Bill. My point was the linguistic one made now by Keiva. though of all the wines in all the world (and I do my share in sampling their bounty) I would have to say that retsina's taste is fearfully reminiscent of the smell of the foul loo cleaning agent used in school lavatories in my youth, so you can stick that where the sun shines not! Top #2767 - 08/20/01 08:47 AM Re: Verbal decapitation Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13666 [blue]retsina's taste is fearfully reminiscent of the smell of the foul loo cleaning agent used in school lavatories[/blue] Which is why *I would have trouble considering it part of a mild sentence. Top #2768 - 08/20/01 09:24 AM Re: Verbal decapitation wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 All linguaphiles take as gospel " The Greeks had a word for it." And let me remind you, mav, you didn't say "Greek" meaning the language, you said "Greeks" meaning the people. Top #2769 - 08/20/01 02:12 PM Re: Verbal decapitation maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 " The Greeks had a word for it." My mama always warned me: Beware of gits bearing grief! Top #2770 - 08/20/01 03:53 PM Re: Verbal decapitation wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear mav: your mama should have warned you about getting boiled in Greece. And "gits bearing griefs" is a form of cacemphaton. Top Page 4 of 6 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8453 Members 16 Forums 13692 Topics 210099 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members zhangzhen, dene13, MariaAnastasia, MNPrasad, Krysto4 8453 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 66 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 99 wofahulicodoc 69 endymion6 68 jenny jenny 63 teepee 23 Rhubarb Commando 18 Faldage 13 tsuwm 9 anddrewlee 6 Jackie 4 June Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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