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« Reply #1000 on: February 08, 2010, 08:44:41 AM »
Like entrails?
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« Reply #1001 on: February 08, 2010, 09:33:43 AM »
It looks like entrails looks similar only by coincidence. It comes from the Latin intralis, meaning "interior", and is unrelated to train or trail.
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« Reply #1002 on: February 08, 2010, 10:37:06 AM »
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« Reply #1003 on: February 08, 2010, 10:43:44 AM »
You're in luck. I offer a 30-day satisfaction guarantee on all etymologies.  
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« Reply #1004 on: February 09, 2010, 05:14:47 PM »
Thanks for looking into it, Jonathon.
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« Reply #1005 on: February 09, 2010, 05:17:35 PM »
No problem.
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« Reply #1006 on: February 10, 2010, 07:16:58 AM »
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Here are 10 fun etymologies of the day. I'm not sure about the accuracy, but I particularly like the etymology of serendipity.
There's more to the etymology of "robot": Karel ?apek or his brother got the word from Czech robota "drudgery, compulsory service". It's cognate with orphan.
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« Reply #1007 on: February 25, 2010, 11:16:00 AM »
Does "opossum" the animal have any etymological connection to the latin word "possum" (to be able)?
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« Reply #1008 on: February 25, 2010, 11:22:33 AM »
Wikipedia attributes it to an Algonquin root. So, absent some astounding developments in the migration history of North America, no ;) .
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« Reply #1009 on: February 25, 2010, 11:28:14 AM »
Bummer.
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« Reply #1010 on: February 25, 2010, 01:07:52 PM »
The OED agrees: it's from a Virginia Algonquin word meaning "white dog".
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« Reply #1011 on: February 25, 2010, 04:32:08 PM »
However, possums do exhibit incredibly high levels of self-efficacy.
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« Reply #1012 on: February 25, 2010, 06:29:29 PM »
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Bummer.
So why is that a bummer?
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« Reply #1013 on: February 26, 2010, 01:32:31 AM »
It would have been an interesting connection.  Of course, the actual etymology is also interesting, so it is simultaneously a bummer and a non-bummer.
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« Reply #1014 on: February 26, 2010, 03:11:15 AM »
But only until you open the box?
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« Reply #1015 on: February 26, 2010, 06:03:24 AM »
Nope.  I am currently reading Ricoeur, not Schroedinger.  Surplus of meaning, not determinancy, is the order of the day.

At least until I post the text of my presentation in . . . *checks clock* . . . four hours.

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« Reply #1016 on: February 26, 2010, 06:13:50 AM »
God is love.  Does anything else really need to be said on the subject?

:)

Good luck, dkw.
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« Reply #1017 on: February 26, 2010, 10:27:44 AM »
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Does anything else really need to be said on the subject?
 
In a seminar on hermeneutics?  Lots.

Besides, today I am channeling Pilate -- the question is not "What is God?" but "What is truth?" One could, of course, make the argument that those are the same question.  But it would involve words.  Oh, so many words*.  With referentiality.  Or not, depending on which philosopher you believe.

*1,338 at least.  
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« Reply #1018 on: February 26, 2010, 10:34:13 AM »
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Playing 'possum?
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« Reply #1019 on: February 26, 2010, 10:51:40 AM »
Up since 1:30.  Had the great luck to draw first presenter, which means 4 days notice and 1000 pages of reading to condense into a pithy paper.

On the plus side, about 1/3 of my work for this seminar is now done.  And I've got four weeks notice for the next 1/3.  
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« Reply #1020 on: February 26, 2010, 10:51:52 AM »
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In a seminar on hermeneutics?

WHAT?  Look, you mainstream Christians are generally good people.  But when you start going around neutering hermits, I draw the line.

Seriously.  That's effed up.
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« Reply #1021 on: February 26, 2010, 11:12:24 AM »
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Up since 1:30.  Had the great luck to draw first presenter, which means 4 days notice and 1000 pages of reading to condense into a pithy paper.

On the plus side, about 1/3 of my work for this seminar is now done.  And I've got four weeks notice for the next 1/3.
Bah!  I've been up since 2, yesterday afternoon.

My body hurts.


And I honestly don't understand at all what it means "G'd is love".  I mean, it sounds nice and all, but does it mean something?  I totally don't get it.  My perspective may be different.  Like a parallax or something.

Condensing 1000 pages into a pithy paper in four days seems a Herculean task.  You may just be Hercules.  I stand impressed with your ability to do that.
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« Reply #1022 on: February 26, 2010, 11:43:53 AM »
Does it mean that God is made of love, or that love is made of God? I always wondered that.
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« Reply #1023 on: February 26, 2010, 11:57:08 AM »
It kind of cracks me up that Dana has to go to graduate school for Pilates lessons, when they give those at the local "Y".
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« Reply #1024 on: February 26, 2010, 12:07:15 PM »
No thank you, I took a Pilates class once.  Speaking of bodies hurting.
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