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> I wonder how mav would have applied his armil rule if he had known that yarak is from Persian.
heh, prolly just as cack-handedly and arbitrarily is the answer!
My OED gives this not very definitive answer (I haven't yet had a chance to google, has anyone found anything good?):
[? ad. Pers. yQrakW power, strength, ability.]
in yarak: (of a hawk) in proper condition for hunting.
1855 Salvin & Brodrick Falc. Brit. Isles 105 The Goshawk+will not work at all unless in good temper and proper flying order, termed in the East ‘yarak’. Ibid. 108 It requires about ten days to get this Hawk into ‘yarak’. 1900 Michell Hawking xii. 162 Unless the hawk was in first-rate condition,—in what is called ‘screaming yarak’. 1901 Kipling Kim x, He's in yarak Plumed to the very point.
The Persian attribution doesn't seem completely secure - any more detail in the latest version, tsuwm?
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>any more detail in the latest version, tsuwm?
they're no where near the Ys as of yet.
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Still trying to find a few good Ys men, huh?
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BUT, I am now daffining like Father Steve?? And fooling him in the process??
Now there's some cause for concern!
Not to worry, Marianna. Perhaps we are psychically linked in some obscure metaphysical way.
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Perhaps we are psychically linked in some obscure metaphysical way.
And how else could you be psychically linked?
But then who am I to denigrate redundancy?
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This may NOT be a redundancy; after all, one can be psychically linked in the regular metaphysical way as well as the obscure way.
A woman needs a man and a woman like a fish needs a bipsychical.
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A woman needs a man and a woman like a fish needs a bipsychical.
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A woman needs a man and a woman like a fish needs a bipsychical.
Speaking of which - has anyone heard anything from Shona?
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I miss that guy so much. I think maverick or either one of our other right-ponders is in occasional touch with him.
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