alt.language.latin

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Exegesis: Ges could have come from [Gerere, Ges-] ---- Diegetic: Ge(t) looks like (((ditto)))

started 2024-11-20 20:14:56 UTC

2024-11-20 22:12:59 UTC

Ed Cryer

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n’importe quoi -- n’importe qui -- (Whatever, Whomever)

started 2024-11-12 07:08:58 UTC

2024-11-17 05:58:17 UTC

Bebercito

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I've gone and forgotten them. (modality)

started 2024-11-09 02:39:04 UTC

2024-11-15 16:43:03 UTC

lar3ryca

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[try it on for size] --- this was so common in the movies of the 1950s, 1960s

started 2024-11-11 01:49:34 UTC

2024-11-14 21:41:02 UTC

Bebercito

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andra moi ennepe, Mousa, polytropon,

started 2024-11-12 01:16:55 UTC

2024-11-14 13:05:45 UTC

Aidan Kehoe

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AI thinks this [go-and-VERB] pattern exists in ENG, FR, DE

started 2024-11-12 05:38:07 UTC

2024-11-12 10:47:37 UTC

Helmut Richter

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Morning bells are ringing,. Ding-dang-dong, ding-dang-dong.

started 2024-11-08 18:23:29 UTC

2024-11-11 05:20:13 UTC

Tilde

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Americans perceive it as a quintessentially British song

started 2024-11-08 20:02:19 UTC

2024-11-10 09:11:11 UTC

occam

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[I want to be in that number] <-- i've not heard this idiom elsewhere

started 2024-11-02 17:09:42 UTC

2024-11-06 09:54:20 UTC

Ed Cryer

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Raymond Williams's [Keywords]

started 2024-10-28 22:54:11 UTC

2024-10-30 21:06:43 UTC

Jeff Barnett

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OED Historical Thesaurus published (22/10/2009)

started 2024-10-27 20:48:41 UTC

2024-10-28 22:42:42 UTC

HenHanna

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stop.feminicide @SFeminicide -- "Pas une de plus!" "Pas une de plus!"

started 2024-10-27 22:41:16 UTC

2024-10-28 19:16:03 UTC

HenHanna

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gravelly (voice) -- like Spanish, but i can't recognize a single word

started 2024-10-24 20:05:48 UTC

2024-10-27 22:54:54 UTC

HenHanna

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se non è vero, è ben trovato -- French [trouver]

started 2024-10-27 03:18:41 UTC

2024-10-27 08:42:13 UTC

HenHanna

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Genitive in “Nil sapientiae odiosius (est) acumine nimio.”

started 2024-10-23 21:13:19 UTC

2024-10-25 17:27:17 UTC

Ed Cryer

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(excess: → nimiety) -- (Nimious is not a word ?)

started 2024-10-23 07:19:48 UTC

2024-10-25 07:21:40 UTC

HenHanna

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Anyone here using the (he/him) (she/her) notations?

started 2024-10-22 21:59:07 UTC

2024-10-25 05:45:34 UTC

Hibou

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Dum in Czech and Latin

started 2024-10-23 18:35:33 UTC

2024-10-24 19:46:38 UTC

Silvano

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Nimius, Nimio... == excessive, too great, too much

started 2024-10-21 22:32:14 UTC

2024-10-24 14:11:05 UTC

Bebercito

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Babbling Day (21 October)

started 2024-10-21 19:29:42 UTC

2024-10-22 18:16:45 UTC

Ed Cryer

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(etym.) Again, Against seem to be related.

started 2024-10-16 07:04:04 UTC

2024-10-18 18:03:38 UTC

HenHanna

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Old alt.usage.english not longer searchable?

started 2024-10-13 00:51:22 UTC

2024-10-15 01:55:14 UTC

Marius_Hancu

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[mirabile dictu] came from a Greek expression ?

started 2022-05-19 17:10:39 UTC

2024-10-13 00:55:38 UTC

HenHanna

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where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green

started 2024-10-10 17:18:06 UTC

2024-10-11 08:49:57 UTC

Ed Cryer

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Deadly Nightshade

started 2024-10-05 17:40:08 UTC

2024-10-10 19:53:56 UTC

Christian Weisgerber

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Henry Fielding died (8/10/1754)

started 2024-10-09 17:15:56 UTC

2024-10-09 18:28:30 UTC

LionelEdwards

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Quī sunt vestrae opīniōnēs dē mediī aevī Latinīs operibus?

started 2024-09-25 17:34:05 UTC

2024-10-08 20:30:16 UTC

t400ec

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(from Faust) -- Und wenn es uns gluckt, Und wenn es sich schickt, So sind es

started 2024-09-25 01:40:56 UTC

2024-10-03 23:41:39 UTC

Peter Moylan

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William Safire died (27/9/2009)

started 2024-09-28 07:05:50 UTC

2024-09-28 17:13:07 UTC

Rich Ulrich

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(what o'clock? ) ---------- Ay, what's o'clock?

started 2024-09-22 06:15:43 UTC

2024-09-22 20:33:30 UTC

HenHanna