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just cuz I'm terminally bored, and I'm too knackered to deal with the latest PMs from dr. bill, and I know how this sort of thing rankles some members no end, I'm starting a thread just to post links to threads from the past that seemed entertaining in the event. here's one that concerned a word which came out of the contravivulating world of competitive Scrabble™, in which we learn«ed» once more that not all is what it seems, and often less. http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=37208
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Worth opening this thread just to read contravivulating. Any connection to ululating?
And btw, I cannot find either contravivulate or vivulate in any source I have at hand.
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>contravivulating
did you try contravivulating or even contravivul*?
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No, but I will now...back in a sec...
Oh, there you are, tsuwm, the one and only online lexicon that includes contravivulating when searched by onelook.com, you man like Odysseus of twists and turns.
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but you did allude to a question..
[aside] worth a separate thread in Q&A?.. nah.[/aside]
can a nonce word have inflections?!
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can a nonce word have inflections?!A nonce word can even have babies, tsuwm. That will give me a chance to post a baby anoncement. BTW I'm enjoying this expedition into the past. I hope that won't bring it to an end. In spite of my "sleeping doggerel" joke [which was only a joke], I don't have anything against the past because I haven't been around for most of it. Truth is, I'm looking forward to the past. Let's have more of it. :) Who was it who said "The past is prologue"? Around here, the past is dialogue. Inscribed above the National Archives in Washington, DC, are the words: "What is past is prologue,"* and George Washington is alleged to have said, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.""This section of St. Bede's Scriptorium seeks to provide a corrective to the "neophilia" (love of the new for its own sake, or the assumption that what is newer is automatically or necessarily better than what is older or more traditional) which is so prevalent in the waning years of the 20th century, by helping to provide some of that needed perspective. It deals with ancient, Celtic, Norse and Germanic, and medieval studies, scholarly and otherwise, and will eventually include original essays as well." http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5129/medievstd.html* William Shakespeare
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I've got that filed mentally under George Santayana
(Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it)
~ where does the Washy quote come from?
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Part of the same St. Bede's Scriptorium page, Maverick. The two George's may have crossed the same Delaware unaware of one another. This writer "alleges" that George Washington said it first. BTW this turned up in George Santanya search: Why did the chicken cross the road? Plato: For the greater good. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to cross the road boldly; but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken’s dominion maintained. Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I’ll find out. Oliver North: National Security was at stake. B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of “crossing” was encoded into the objects “chicken” and “road”, and circumstances came into being which caused the actualisation of this potential occurrence. Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken nature. Salvador Dali: The Fish. Darwin: It was the next logical step after coming down from the trees. Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on but it was moving very fast. The Sphinx: You tell me. Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. Posted on the “Sudanese” discussion list on the Internet by M. Mahjoub http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/philosophy/Quot.htm
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Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it
And those who do study history are doomed to recognize that they are repeating it.
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Thanks, I had mistaken your reference. I still doubt if there is any substance to his attribution – have emailed him to ask for a source but. I like the Devil’s Dictionary (as so often!): HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)Other history references: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_history.html
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