"A norange" is another one; that's why the Spanish call them "naranjas" and we call them "oranges".
Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
'Serenity'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Jan 16, 2006 10:15:55 am PST #430 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
§ ita § - Jan 16, 2006 10:18:29 am PST #431 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
kat perez - Jan 16, 2006 10:20:22 am PST #432 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Mmmm. Spicy brains.
I love the Favorite Poems site. Now I have Gerard Manly Hopkins on the brain. "I caught this morning morning's minion." Love!
Strix - Jan 16, 2006 10:22:46 am PST #433 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Isn't it a great site?! I'm going to link my classroom TV to my computer and show a bunch of them next week.
Hopefully. If I get the splitter-thingie I need.
Nilly - Jan 16, 2006 10:25:06 am PST #434 of 10002
Swouncing
I thought I was already logging off, but I had one e-mail to answer, and then I saw this:
Also, a nickname was originally an ekename ("eke" being the Old and Middle English word for "also").
Oh, that is cool!
In Hebrew, it's either archaeology (sp?) and 2000-years-old words from ancient Hebrew and Aramic, or the last century's re-innovated language, man-made, in a way. So just the difference in the processes of the ways the words evolve is already fascinaging to me.
Yeah, geek, I can't help it.
we call them "oranges"
The Hebrew word for orange ("tapooz") is a composition of two words, the one for apple ("tapoo'akh") and the one for gold ("zahav"), so an orange is a "golden apple". But that's not as cool as how its English name was formed. Also, the name was created this way on purpose, by the people who re-invented the Hebrew language at the beginning of the 20th century, so the whole process is different.
OK, really going home now.
Jessica - Jan 16, 2006 10:27:27 am PST #435 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The Hebrew word for orange ("tapooz") is a composition of two words, the one for apple ("tapoo'akh") and the one for gold ("zahav"), so an orange is a "golden apple".
Heh -- so I guess the phrase "comparing apples and oranges" doesn't work so well in Hebrew? (In English, "comparing apples and oranges" is idiomatic for "comparing 2 things so vastly different from one another that to compare them is pointless.")
Emily - Jan 16, 2006 10:38:56 am PST #436 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
"I caught this morning morning's minion."
Darling of daylight's dauphin!!! Sorry. Geekitude.
Betsy HP - Jan 16, 2006 10:46:40 am PST #437 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Being a Buffista means never having to say you're geeky.
Kathy A - Jan 16, 2006 10:48:25 am PST #438 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oooh, got this from Wikipedia's entry for metanalysis:
Umpire comes to us from the Middle English "noumpere," which itself is adopted from the Old French "nonper" (someone "without peer" who could act as an arbiter of a dispute).
Word histories can be so fun!
kat perez - Jan 16, 2006 10:48:37 am PST #439 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
That is absolutely my favorite poem to read aloud ever. Just the beauty of the words and the way they all flow together.
sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
It's almost a sinfully sensuous poem given the subject matter.