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ck: Maybe you are aware of Hermann Hesse's novel, Magister Ludi. I've not read it, but my impression is that it involves a mysterious game of some kind. I'm sure others are more conversant with it.
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Yes. and then there is John Fowles' The Magus and Christianity's Three Magi.
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after seeing what man* has wrought with cleave, why this insistence that these should have a common root?! <scratching head>
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why this insistence that these should have a common root?!
It's the conspiracy theory gene that *lurks in all of us.
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all of uswho's this "us", white man?  I want a legal citation before I can accept such sweeping generalisation: chapter and verse!
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I want a legal citation before I can accept such
sweeping generalisation: chapter and verse!
must... resist... temptation....
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ASp: all of us
mav: who's this "us", white man? (emphasis added)
man? man????
must... resist... temptation....
er, faldage, would you please explain this matter to mav in whatever detail may be necessary?
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maestra e maestro are used for teacher for children in the first five years of school. After that, we use professore or professoressa.
Maestro in the meaning of master still survives in some old expressions.
Dottore is everyone is graduate with a laurea in every subject, but in practice it is used just for doctors in medicine
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What she said in Espaņol, as well.
Italian: maestra e maestro
Spanish: maestra y maestro
Italian: professore or professoressa
Spanish: profesor o profesora
Italian: Dottore
Spanish: Doctor
The one thing, at least in Mexican Spanish, I could never sort out is the difference between licenciado and abogado. It seems that all abogados are licenciados, but not all licenciados are abogados. My dictionary doesn't clarify. My brother-in-law, a licenciado no-abogado, tried to explain it to me once, but no entiendo. Anybody out there care to explain?
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-- ASp: all of us
-- mav: who's this "us", white man? (emphasis added)
-- er, faldage, would you please explain this matter to mav in whatever detail may be necessary?
Mav may not be the only person not familiar with the joke... so, (drum roll):
LONE RANGER: Well, Tonto, there are two thousand Indians surrounding us and they don't look friendly. I guess we've come to the end of the line, old fellow.
TONTO (LR's Faithful Indian Companion): What you mean "we", white man?
(rim shot)
Sorry, folks, there's just no way to correct that one politically. In any dimension. And the Lone Ranger was definitely "man."
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