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Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)

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Algot Runeman wrote:
rpschmitz wrote:Not to be insulting, but according to my reading of Roman history, a century of soldiers (which should have been one hundred) was actually eighty men... :roll:
You cannot succeed in insulting me. I'm always making misteaks mistakes. Sometimes I even correct them.

Maybe the ancient Romans had difficulty keeping their centuries up to the verbal norm, or perhaps they just couldn't count above 80 and decided to round off. I only took first year Latin in high school. Reading about Caesar's marches wasn't done until second year Latin.
Correction:

Intitially, (in the early republic) a century was actually one hundred men--barring wounds and illness. But by the time of the Roman Empire, the Century was comprised of eighty (if not fewer men--sometimes as low as sixty): they were trying to cut back, I suppose...

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Algot Runeman wrote:harissa

sauce used in North African cooking; includes, chili pepper, paprika and olive oil

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So, okay, the picture doesn't actually illustrate the harissa itself, but how exciting would a photo of bowl of sauce be?
Well, after huge pressure, I've actually conceded and have added a picture of a can of the stuff. I'm still holding out against a bowl, though.

I'd like to try it.

"Can I try it?" asked Megan. She flipped her long, dark hair over her left shoulder. She was very attractive, but walked like a football-player with a broken leg.

"Are you OK." Megan turned. It was a small, fidgety man...
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Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)

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Algot Runeman wrote:harissa
Oh yes.
An Andouilette de Troyes with Couscous, hot Tierenteyn mustard for the sausage and a dollop of Harissa mixed into the semolina.
Yummy!

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rpschmitz wrote:
Algot Runeman wrote:harissa

(...)
So, okay, the picture doesn't actually illustrate the harissa itself, but how exciting would a photo of bowl of sauce be?
Well, after huge pressure, I've actually conceded and have added a picture of a can of the stuff. I'm still holding out against a bowl, though.

I'd like to try it.

"Can I try it?" asked Megan. She flipped her long, dark hair over her left shoulder. She was very attractive, but walked like a football-player with a broken leg.

"Are you OK." Megan turned. It was a small, fidgety man...
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Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)

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enchantress


a woman who uses magic to put someone or something under a spell.

a woman who is captivatingly attractive.

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Now, I understand the idea, but no amount of magic can keep me from remembering Snow White or The Wizard of Oz whose enchantresses were more in the line of...
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Now there's a picture to imagine my grandma! I mean the first picture, the one at the top, the goddess with the spotted kittens, the mesmerising enchantress!

THIS ONE!
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E.P.S. wrote:...picture to imagine my grandma!
I look forward to meeting her.

In the hereafter, I suppose, where her enchantments certainly continue unabated. I'll bow over her hand and greet her with dignity and nod correctly to her husband, too. Then I'll introduce my own bride. She and your grandmother will walk off together to laugh, knowingly, at us men.
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E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:Now there's a picture to imagine my grandma! I mean the first picture, the one at the top, the goddess with the spotted kittens, the mesmerising enchantress!

THIS ONE!
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Now, this is not at all how I imagine your grandma, from all you told us about her.
Or, just a very lucky snapshot, a bare instantaneous situation.
The way I see her is, all envelopped in the fur of these spotted cats, while the flensed carcasses of the poor things are just good enough to be roasted as "méchoui", and eaten with couscous and harissa.
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voralfred wrote:Now, this is not at all how I imagine your grandma, from all you told us about her.
Or, just a very lucky snapshot, a bare instantaneous situation.
The way I see her is, all envelopped in the fur of these spotted cats, while the flensed carcasses of the poor things are just good enough to be roasted as "méchoui", and eaten with couscous and harissa.
:clap: I hope you'll invite BB for that dinner. :worship:
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Re: GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)

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hydrant

a water pipe, especially one in a street, with a nozzle to which a fire hose can be attached.

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There's a slight discrepancy with the hydrant clipart above. Extra credit if you spot it.

There's a conventional use of red for hydrants. But it isn't universal.
What color are they hydrants in your community?
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Algot Runeman wrote:What color are the hydrants in your community?
None. Hydrants are recessed in the sidewalk and hidden by a little metal cover.
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One of the things we face in my town is snow. When the plows have cleared the streets, it is common courtesy for someone along the street to shovel around the hydrants so that the fire department can easily get to it. If nobody does it, the fire department eventually comes by and removes snow. E.P.S., how do you even know where the hydrant is if it snows?
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Algot Runeman wrote:One of the things we face in my town is snow. When the plows have cleared the streets, it is common courtesy for someone along the street to shovel around the hydrants so that the fire department can easily get to it. If nobody does it, the fire department eventually comes by and removes snow. E.P.S., how do you even know where the hydrant is if it snows?
  • 1 Police regulations enforce a standing order to clear the sidewalk.
    2 It rarely snows enough. When it does, the snow rarely remains very long.
    3 The fire brigade has maps.
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.. but, then, what do the dogs pee on, if there are no hydrants?
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Algot Runeman wrote:(...)
a) There's a slight discrepancy with the hydrant clipart above. Extra credit if you spot it.

b) There's a conventional use of red for hydrants. But it isn't universal.
What color are they hydrants in your community?
a) I don't see any discrepancy. Sometimes, the caps are chained to the main body, so they are not lost when the fire brigade remove them i a hurry, but it is not essential; also the fact that the three exits are not on the same level is not essential either, the innards of the hydrant can very well fit exits on different levels. So "je donne ma langue aux chats* (whom you have provided on your preceding posts)"
b) same answer as EPS, they are recessed i nthe sidewalks; but in addition to maps, there are (at least occasionally) markers on the walls to indicate where they are exactly.


* donner sa langue au(x) chat(s)="give up onee's tongue to the cat(s)", a phrase in french meaning "give up guessing a riddle"

CodeBlower wrote:.. but, then, what do the dogs pee on, if there are no hydrants?

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CodeBlower wrote:.. but, then, what do the dogs pee on, if there are no hydrants?
We have compulsory dog pee pastures with fake plastic hydrants. :lol:

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The day, as they say, has passed away.
We came to dread it, no extra credit.
No one did see the small discrepancy. (maybe, too, they won't notice the lack of proper poetic beat.)

To be fair, only US citizens would have been likely to have noticed that the wrench "nut" on the cap for a hose connection was hexagonal. To make unauthorized removal difficult, US hydrants typically have a pentagonal (5-sided) shape. Fire companies have the special wrenches needed.
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jabot

an ornamental frill or ruffle on the front of a shirt or blouse, typically made of lace

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Annalise skipped along in her sabots and the lovely jabot danced jauntily on her blouse.
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Do I guess two lovely galactants* under this jabot?

if you allow me the neologism, a galactant being to milk (gala in greek) what a hydrant is to water (hydor in greek)

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Algot Runeman wrote:jabot
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I was going to say that

1. The above picture isn't really a jabot. It's a shirt with frills. Also worn by men at official soirées, gala-dinners and such. A jabot is a separate, as it were hang-alone, garment.

2. One doesn't need a balcony to support a jabot. Scotsmen wear an actual jabot as part of their ceremonial dress.

3. Trust me, I know. For my wedding day, almost forty years ago, I made my jabot myself.
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Though my old wedding outfit has shrunk too much, the jabot still fits perfectly well.
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It would be my (531 posts) inclination to allow you (4149 posts) most things. "Seniority" counts for something!
I think galactants, whether they are Greek or not, deserves a place in the world's lexicon.
I'll report to the authorities, if and when asked under oath, that you were the source, voralfred.

E.P.S., it is great to have a proper illustration for the jabot. I'd never seen the term before it popped up as an Oxford Dictionaries Online WotD, and followed the definition they gave to locate a possible image. Yours, (handmade by you, wow) is fabulous.
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Algot Runeman wrote: followed the definition they gave to locate a possible image.
Just google images for jabot ...
Algot Runeman wrote:Yours, (handmade by you, wow) is fabulous.
Back then, I got inspiration from sea snails.
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E.P.S. I'm trying to stick with images I can "repurpose."

I really liked this one: http://www.jhiggins.net/sf_proddetail.a ... DBHBBF2HMP

While it might have been enough to include the link, I felt it would be difficult to go through all the steps to get copyright clearance from the vendor.
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garbology

the study of a community or culture by analyzing its waste

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The photo actually doesn't represent modern day garbologists at work. These workers appear to be gleaning valuable materials from the trash stream of a dump in Cambodia. But all that broken pottery which archeologists study is probably from ancient middens, the dumps of our ancestors. Modern "investigative journalism" is purported to use the trash of celebrities to report on their activities.
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Algot Runeman wrote:Image
The photo actually doesn't represent modern day garbologists at work. These workers appear to be gleaning valuable materials from the trash stream of a dump in Cambodia. But all that broken pottery which archeologists study is probably from ancient middens, the dumps of our ancestors. Modern "investigative journalism" is purported to use the trash of celebrities to report on their activities.
That would make them grabologists, no?
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