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RE: Untranslatable
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We seem to agree, repeatedly, that nothing is truly untranslatable even if, in BobHale's words, it t......
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November 25, 2011 05:12
RE: Untranslatable
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zmježd is right, in the end nothing is untranslatable. However, it's not clear that all the cultura......
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November 24, 2011 06:37
RE: Untranslatable
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Kalleh - you are quite correct that anything can in principle be translated. In a different context......
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November 22, 2011 22:12
Untranslatable
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A search for "untranslatable" here yields pages of entries. Not sure if we've ever had one on terms......
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November 22, 2011 05:02
RE: from the news
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WHAT is being raised is the same -- pilus, hair. HOW it is being raised differs. Erect relates to ......
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November 16, 2011 19:35
RE: Bird-Words
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No view on the validity of the claim, but some observers say they see proof of a Japanese mini sub i......
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August 30, 2011 03:49
RE: Miscellaneous words
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For many years Obama's colleagues brayed on about the "well-funded" and "secure" "Social Security lo......
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July 16, 2011 10:02
RE: Miscellaneous words
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Quite literally "wing man." In the US in particular, a wing man is a best friend. When a fellow wa......
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July 13, 2011 14:58
RE: Miscellaneous words
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Not to be confused with Dagon......
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March 07, 2011 20:09
"Yes, but can you make it THIS small?!"
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Ran across an article about the smallest legible font. ......
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November 17, 2010 14:30
RE: Words that Sound Dirty, but Aren't
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Well, this one is borderline. The Latin stem serves for "castle." the "*chester" ending of certain......
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September 23, 2009 13:24
Why so dead?
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There are a number of expressions with "dead" as an unlikely modifier: dead certain dead eye dead g......
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September 18, 2009 05:18
RE: Chambers Gigglossary
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Those gifts are for trading! Old story of two friends on the commodities market Their job was to ......
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September 15, 2009 06:16
RE: Chambers Gigglossary
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Rosbif, biftek, le weekend, shampooing, le smoking... Rather like Monte Python's Holy Grail: "Engli......
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September 12, 2009 18:59
RE: Chambers Gigglossary
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Not to be confused with the similarly boisterous "mafeking." See, for example, ......
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September 10, 2009 11:12
RE: Chambers Gigglossary
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A great favorite of mine - "chrestomathy." Phrases rather than individual words, but still a pleasi......
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September 09, 2009 08:06
RE: Floral Terms
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So if dandelions are a natural diuretic (http://www.safesupplements.co.uk/why-dandelion-natural-diur......
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July 05, 2009 05:35
Floral Terms
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Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal, on the origins of floral terms. ......
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July 04, 2009 08:07
Inseparable words versus separts
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There are a number of words where the "separated" form is unable to stand alone. For example, while......
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May 27, 2009 18:30
RE: Abraham Lincoln
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Speaking of "-cracy," we've have "mobocracy" above, and we all know "aristocracy," but it's not too ......
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