#84349 - 10/22/02 08:12 PM
ceraunograph
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Carpal Tunnel
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ceraunograph = instrument for recording thunder and lightning
Would you believe there are half a dozen sites combining pornography
with that word?
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#84350 - 10/22/02 09:53 PM
Re: ceraunograph
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addict
Registered: 01/18/01
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Loc: Australia
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ceraunograph = instrument for recording thunder and lightning.
Would you believe there are half a dozen sites combining pornography with that word?
Nothing to see here. Move along please. Especially if you are the gutter police.
Depends on the shape of the instrument
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#84351 - 10/23/02 07:16 PM
Re: ceraunograph
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Carpal Tunnel
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Ceraunograph...
Etymology, please.
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#84352 - 10/23/02 08:41 PM
Re: ceraunograph
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Carpal Tunnel
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None of the definitions I could find gave any clue as to etymology. Dammit.
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#84355 - 10/28/02 03:58 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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And, Sparteye, I've heard of these keraunographs, although I hadn't heard this word before. But I have heard of people standing before a glass window where a bolt of lightning has caused an image to be left there on the glass.
However, there are myths about impressions of trees left on people's skin. What is actually left on the skin of people hit by lightning is apparently a tracing of the moisture on their skin into a tree-like pattern.
I do wish someone could find the etymology of ceraunograph...
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#84356 - 02/13/05 07:03 PM
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stranger
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The word is from keraunos, Gr. for "thunderbolt" (+ graph, to draw, of course).
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#84357 - 02/13/05 07:19 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Welcome, ambly. Sounds like there should be an etymology for that name too?!
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#84359 - 02/13/05 08:57 PM
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Grosssssssssssssss! wwh sent me a shorter link to the amblypygid . This is the ugliest spider in the world except to other amblypygid s: http://makeashorterlink.com/?I6272587AEdit: Well, actually the spider is an Ambylypygid. Close enough.
Second edit: Well, actually the word is spelled two ways on the above page, so I take the one in the red edit is incorrect. Here's the genus: Amblypygi
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#84361 - 02/13/05 11:10 PM
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stranger
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At risk of going off-topic (I don't know how it's looked upon here but some forums are very strict...):
1. 'Amblylypygid' is certainly a typo; the word is amblypygid
2. Amblypygids are not spiders, but belong to a different order -
3. - Amblypygi, which isn't a genus. The genus of the animal shown is Damon. There are around a couple of dozen genera in all.
Some south american spcies can reach in excess of two feet across the 'whips'.
The article is interesting, incidentally. It's a strange thing to lose in Brighton (not many people keep them, and they're generally both quite expensive and not easy to get hold of).
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#84363 - 02/14/05 07:12 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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>So, what differentiates amblypygids and spiders?
amblypygids have curly tails...
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#84364 - 02/14/05 10:50 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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re: At risk of going off-topic
the lower you go down the topics, the less strict we become.. down here, (below the fold) it's not quite a free for all, but almost!
but up in Q & A about words, or A & I, we are a bit more titchy-- and well, complain.. if you start out 'off topic'
you can get away with it, but only if the post subject is, really, really interesting, (to EVERYONE) and since that happens only once every 60 thousand years or so..
but even up there, most things go off topic eventually...
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#84365 - 02/14/05 07:00 PM
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/27/02
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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Some south american spcies can reach in excess of two feet across the 'whips'.
TWO FEET!!!
And to think I used to want to visit S. Amer.
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#84366 - 02/14/05 07:44 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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yeahbut they got small feet :)
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