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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #45 on: July 21, 2012, 04:20:43 AM »
They only fart in California?
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #46 on: July 21, 2012, 04:34:48 AM »
Quote from: odeon on July 21, 2012, 04:20:43 AM
They only fart in California?

  Most people do not set fart traps for the unwary, as PPK does.  :P
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #47 on: July 21, 2012, 04:40:17 AM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on July 21, 2012, 04:34:48 AM
Quote from: odeon on July 21, 2012, 04:20:43 AM
They only fart in California?

  Most people do not set fart traps for the unwary, as PPK does.  :P

He is a sneaky one, that PPK fellow.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #48 on: July 21, 2012, 04:41:26 AM »
Quote from: odeon on July 21, 2012, 04:40:17 AM
Quote from: couldbecousin on July 21, 2012, 04:34:48 AM
Quote from: odeon on July 21, 2012, 04:20:43 AM
They only fart in California?

  Most people do not set fart traps for the unwary, as PPK does.  :P

He is a sneaky one, that PPK fellow.

  Yes, I think he needs to learn to express himself more directly.  :P
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #49 on: July 21, 2012, 04:41:58 AM »
 :mischief:
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #50 on: July 21, 2012, 04:42:45 AM »
Weird smell in this thread. :P
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #51 on: July 21, 2012, 04:47:54 AM »
Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on July 21, 2012, 03:44:56 AM
Quote from: Lit on July 14, 2012, 09:19:10 AM
The Roman Emperor Claudius (the one that the Brits made a TV series about) had problems with flatulence. His physician told him that "If you don't let out the gas in your stomach not to embarass people, Caesar, your stomach will get hurt".

So Claudius actually made a law stipulating that it was alright to fart in public  :viking:
:viking: I particularly like farting in a grocery store or book store and going over to the next aisle to see if I can hear a response from someone obliviously walking into it.  :zoinks:

When I was a kid, we had farting contests and belching contests. You were considered a master of belching if you could belch and speak at the same time  :green:
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #52 on: July 21, 2012, 05:04:42 AM »
 :thumbup: :viking: :plus:
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #53 on: July 23, 2012, 04:15:02 AM »
Latin uses perfect in cases where modern Romance and Germanic languages usually use preteritum(/imperfect). Thus "I was" in the meaning "I am no more" isn't eram but fui.

German does that to some degree too. You say "I bathed" in English or "Jag badade" in Swedish, but you usually say "Ich habe gebadet in German.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #54 on: July 24, 2012, 01:54:56 AM »
It comes to mind that the Swedish church actually uses Latin endings in some archaic expressions. I think it's rather unique 2012: Kristi blod, du milde Kriste.
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« Reply #55 on: July 24, 2012, 07:23:11 AM »
In Medieval Latin Sweden is Suecia, though in classical Latin it's Suevia. So "Swede" in Medeival Latin is suecus. The classical Latin sueones is the name of the tribe of Svear, though, so sueoni isn't any Swede.

So I created the word suevus for someone who is a Swede but not from the historical Sweden Proper  8)
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #56 on: July 24, 2012, 07:09:25 PM »
Based on the length of their posts, Lestat and Sir Les are the same person.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #57 on: July 25, 2012, 01:22:24 PM »
Swedish ansvar, English answer and German Antwort are cognates. The Swedish word means "responsibility", though, which is also the original meaning of the word, "to swear against"; "Re-sponsibility" comes from rispondere, respondere, which also means "to answer", just like the German and English words, whereas the verb spondere on its own means " to swear". Swedish for "answer" is svar, which originally means "swear". Modern Swedish for the verb "swear" is svära. The German word for "responsibility" is Verantwortung, which, just like the English responsibility and the Latin respondere is a later construction.

So someone who is responsible is originally someone who has sworn an oath  :viking:
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #58 on: July 25, 2012, 04:00:43 PM »
A little paste wax will do wonders on dull wood items that you may think need to be refinished
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #59 on: July 28, 2012, 03:46:56 AM »
Sweden actually is very old-fashioned in some respects. You call the male teacher magister just like the Romans did 2000 years ago. What more is: the academic grade for a teacher is actually (at least) filosofie magister.

A female teacher is only called fröken=miss though.  :laugh:
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