#43351
09/29/2001 12:37 PM
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Superfiscous, n that which is the very surface, the event of appearance, non-being as specific in time space, or in experience.
We are only to be loved. All the poison of our hatred and will to
destroy hommaged in its pouring off into the abyss in which it can only
vanish. Love will never conquer. Instead, one day it may be recognized.
...Our lives diverge, now, in ways they never have before, and there is no way
back. Beneath the superfiscous of distance, the impossibility of its
being will always remain.
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#43352
09/29/2001 1:31 PM
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Superfiscous sounds supracociate.
Results and video — recent Nature article.
Mantle depth of 3000 km ~0.5 Earth's radius. Circumference 40,000 km.
Solid. Flow by slow fiscous creep. v~cm/year.
Re~10-20 & 1023 momentum neglible. Infinite Prandtl number approximation.
Ra ~107 features ~100 km wide Need ~25km grid spacing 60 million grid points!
Viscosity strongly T-dependent. ~10x per 100K. Surface 'plates.'
Also non-linear, i.e., strain rate stress3
and it wouldn't surprise me if "fiscous" were a typo for "viscous".
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#43353
09/29/2001 2:29 PM
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hoick, n. a. Rowing. (See quot. 1898.) b. Aeronaut. A jerky pull (on the stick). (Cf. hoick v.1 2.) c. Cricket. A jerky, hoisted shot.
1898 Encycl. Sport II. 297/1 Hoick, a jerk with the arms at the beginning or end of the stroke, which prevents a steady leg drive from the stretcher.
1956 R. Alston Test Commentary ix. 60 Lindwall's one scoring stroke was an ungainly ‘hoick’ for six.
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#43354
09/29/2001 4:02 PM
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When next you go fox-hunting, tsuwm, remember:
Hoick to Rector means hark to Rector to encourage hounds to go to any
hound which may have challenged.
Hoick to-gether to encourage hounds to get together.
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#43355
09/29/2001 4:44 PM
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yes, although that seems to be a totally unrelated hoick(s).
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#43356
09/29/2001 5:18 PM
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True, but you must be prepared in case you see a fox crossing a wide river.
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#43357
09/29/2001 7:45 PM
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<<True, but you must be prepared in case you see a fox crossing a wide river
A fox appears to cross a river, that when you touch it is the swelling pulse of lover's throat, before the hand that learned this vanishes and the eye that sent it forth
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fiscous it is in this habitation, whose authority does not extend to the origin, you, of the luminous sentences calling it to question in my living room or study as mood or use announces
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#43358
09/30/2001 5:26 AM
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If it comes to that Inselpeter, what does "hommaged" mean in your quotation? In reply to:
All the poison of our hatred and will to
destroy hommaged in its pouring off into the abyss in which it can only
vanish.
It appears to say that poison paid homage (to who or what?) while pouring off into the abyss. Could it be that your author is not familiar with the English language or has been badly served by his or her publisher? And that superfiscous is a stab at superficiality?
Bingley
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#43359
09/30/2001 11:31 AM
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Bingley, I would have said that it meant that the poison from our hatred and from our will-to-destroy was hommaged (?) when it poured into the abyss. Though I confess that doesn't make things much clearer to me.
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#43360
09/30/2001 11:54 AM
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<what does 'hommaged' mean
one guess is as good as another
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#43361
09/30/2001 12:50 PM
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#43362
09/30/2001 1:31 PM
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<<you too can be euphasic.>>
heh?
or
you got me again, doc bill, what's euphasic?
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#43363
09/30/2001 1:53 PM
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Dear IP: perhaps you missed the URL I gave to the Hellatine Dictionary. It contains amusing coinages.
I used them to tease you mildly, no offense intended. Just type the name into Yahoo! search box, and you will see URL. Hope they amuse you. Bill
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#43364
09/30/2001 2:11 PM
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Dear Dr. Bill,
No offense tendered and none returned in change--and that no matter who might ever initiate a transaction between us, I trust.
As to euphasia, I plead ignorance of your meaning. The question gains relevance, then, what coin the state of metaeuphasis might ment. For, I contend, I am anchored in the very bedrock of reality.
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#43365
09/30/2001 8:44 PM
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Superfiscous, n that which is the very surface, the event of appearance, non-being as specific in time space, or in experience.
But why would we not simply use the existing 'superficial'?
How would you pronounce it?
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#43366
10/01/2001 3:15 AM
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>But why would we not simply use the existing 'superficial'?
yes, well perhaps it's just supererogatory.
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#43367
10/01/2001 8:29 AM
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<<But why not use the existing word, "superficial."
The definition offered reflects my understanding of the author's intention. At the risk of being thought Mediaeval, what interested me vis-a-vis "superficious" was the substantiation of a quality. The noun form of the word, giving substance to something which otherwise, as adjective, refers to nothing more than the quality of a substance. By making substantial a thing which, by definition, is without independent existence, the author touches on an abiding obsession of mine. The notion is loosely related to Augustine's paradox of time which tswum raised in an antebabelian thread. On a more playful note, it relates to a word recently tendered by Dr. Bill, "anaphasia."
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