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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 8:27:06 GMT
If I started any of Sarah's evasion strategies, I would probably choose the disticha Catonis.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 8:33:27 GMT
I just had the nightmarish vision of an ET thread where everyone only posted random quotes from different works.
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 4, 2023 8:33:39 GMT
Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 4, 2023 8:34:48 GMT
I just had the nightmarish vision of an ET thread where everyone only posted random quotes from different works. I don't see how that would be nightmarish. It would actually be interesting. |
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 8:36:37 GMT
It would actually be interesting. Like a conversation between mad people maybe, yes. |
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 8:38:09 GMT
Well, I guess it could a concept for a thread, but not for one that to me does sound like it should be a conversation thread.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 8:46:00 GMT
Sarah ... or kizolk, since you're French as well I believe.
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 4, 2023 8:47:35 GMT
This isn't exactly a conversation thread. You can't expect everyone to have something to converse about every time they visit. This is a random thread, where there can be conversation, comments out of the blue, quotes, anything.
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 4, 2023 8:48:51 GMT
Sarah ... or kizolk, since you're French as well I believe. Here comes our Austrian friend again! |
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 8:51:20 GMT
Sarah ... or kizolk, since you're French as well I believe. I am indeed! |
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 8:58:11 GMT
Why is it connoisseur in English and Connaisseur in German?
I remember misspelling that whenever I wrote it and always got the vowel wrong, but it's only now that I noticed that I knew it in 2 different variants from 2 languages.
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 4, 2023 8:59:40 GMT
I think Bitmap will like at least some of Syrus's quotes because they're misogynistic.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 9:01:20 GMT
Why is it conn oisseur in English and Conn aisseur in German? I remember misspelling that whenever I wrote it and always got the vowel wrong, but it's only now that I noticed that I knew it in 2 different variants from 2 languages. It's a more Old French-y spelling. The only existing version in contemporary French is "connaisseur". |
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 4, 2023 9:02:43 GMT
Why is it conn oisseur in English and Conn aisseur in German? I remember misspelling that whenever I wrote it and always got the vowel wrong, but it's only now that I noticed that I knew it in 2 different variants from 2 languages. It looks like the word was borrowed at different times into each language. "Connoisseur" is the earlier form, "connaisseur" the modern one. Many (all?) ais were ois once upon a time. |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Mar 4, 2023 9:05:00 GMT
I can imagine the French getting together and deciding to change the spelling, just to leave anglophones stuck with an orthography that was technically wrong.
I know language doesn't work that way. But I can't help the feeling that French might.
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