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#144596 06/30/05 06:11 AM
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>The correct word is Geschwisterlichkeit.

yes, and that's a much more attractive word, isn't it?!

-jimmy (the greek) sardonios


#144597 06/30/05 07:19 AM
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I made up geschwisterkeit. I ought to have known that humorous inventiveness is not something German is renowned for.


#144598 06/30/05 11:09 AM
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> geschwisterkeit

what's googlewhack in German? <smile>

but there's always humorous invectiveness... <smile again>



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Who's your emoticon?


#144600 06/30/05 11:30 AM
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I'm really not liking the smileys, so I thought I would make my own... I couldn't find a smiley of James Brown... <smirk>



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#144601 06/30/05 01:47 PM
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Geschwisterlichkeit

That's not workable: any word describing a frat must be capable of being pronounced by at least half of the frat members at least half of the time.

On the other hand, it *would* make a good pledge test ...


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Geschwisterlichkeit

That's not workable: any word describing a frat must be capable of being pronounced by at least half of the frat members at least half of the time.

On the other hand, it *would* make a good pledge test ...

*snerk*


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In reply to:

I know very little about them; was never into the Greek life, as if it was .


I did find this confusing a couple of weeks ago when wandering round the website of a US students' organisation and assumed the link was for those studying New Testament Greek.

No mention of Greek love either .

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Look for that around back.


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Way back when I was in university there were frat houses but no sorority houses due to a badly written law that made them fit within the definition of bordello. (don't know if they changed the law by now)


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