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Online Etymology Dictionary

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:07:58 GMT

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L., lit. "behold the man" (John xix.5).

1398 as a term in Ptolemaic astronomy, from M.L. eccentricus, from Gk. ekkentros "out of the center" (as opposed to concentric), from ek "out" + kentron "center" (see center). Figurative sense of "odd, whimsical" (adj.) first recorded 1685. Noun meaning person with such qualities first attested 1832.

Ecclesiastes

c.1300, name given to one of the O.T. books, traditionally ascribed to Solomon, from Gk. ekklesiastes (see ecclesiastic), to render Heb. qoheleth "one who addresses an assembly," from qahal "assembly." The title is technically the designation of the speaker, but that word throughout is usually rendered into Eng. as "The Preacher."

Socrates Quotes

Tue, 20 May 2008 22:07:41 GMT

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Socrates Quotes

An honest man is always a child.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Be as you wish to seem.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

2008-09-13: Tag der deutschen Sprache

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:24:02 GMT

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Wir schätzen unsere deutsche Muttersprache, die „Orgel unter den Sprachen“, wie Jean Paul sie nannte. Um sie als eigenständige Kultur- und Wissenschaftssprache zu erhalten und vor dem Verdrängen durch das Englische zu schützen, gründeten wir im Jahr 1997 den Verein Deutsche Sprache. Er ist eine bunte, große und schnell wachsende Bürgerinitiative mit mittlerweile über 30.000 Menschen aus nahezu allen Ländern, Kulturen, Parteien, Altersgruppen und Berufen. Allein ein Drittel davon sind Freunde der deutschen Sprache aus Asien oder Afrika.

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Die in der deutschen Allgemeinsprache von 1990 bis 1999 festzustellenden neuen Wörter und Wendungen sind schon zu rund 60 % aus dem Angloamerikanischen entlehnt oder – als Mischbildungen oder Scheinentlehnungen – mit Hilfe angloamerikanischer Wörter oder Wortbausteine gebildet worden.

Die „Amerikanisierung" der deutschen Sprache

wurde dann auch noch dadurch wesentlich begünstigt, daß die „zuständigen" Wissenschaftler

darin im allgemeinen kein Problem

sahen

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Tags: deutsch, anglizismen, amerikanisierung, sprache

A Lexicon of New Orleans Terminology and Speech

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:40:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yatspeak: how ta tawk rite in Noo Awyuns.

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For those of you unfamiliar with New Orleans culture, a good place to start is that there are basically only two kinds of people in New Orleans.

The first is those folks that live, as one [of Bunny's] cartoon characters puts it, in Gatorland -- "Yeah, you know ... ova dere across Magazine where dey all wear dem shoits wid lil' gators on 'em." Otherwise knows as Uptown, you can tell folks from Gatorland in the cartoons because they speak English. Another clue is that all skinny people are from Gatorland, although not all people from Gatorland are skinny. And they often have 59 rows of teeth.

The other kind of New Orleanian is Everyone Else, dose folks dat talk normal.

NEW ORLEANS

there are oodles of ways that the locals pronounce the name of their beloved City.

<new or-LEENS> is generally a no-no.

Here are the major standard local pronunciations of the City's name: <new OR-l@ns>, <new AW-l@ns>, <new OR-lee-'@ns> <new AH-lee-@ns>, <nyoo AH-lee-'@ns>.

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Mark Twain on the First Woman in Nevada

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:25:19 GMT

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in a certain Nevada camp, the news went abroad early in the morning that a woman was come! The miners had seen a calico dress hanging out of a wagon down at the camping ground---sign of emigrants from over the great plains. Everybody went down there, and a shout went up when an actual bona fide dress was discovered fluttering in the wind! The male emigrant was visible. The miners said:

“Fetch her out!”

He said: “It’s my wife, gentlemen---she is sick---we have been robbed of money, provisions, everything, by the Indians---we want to rest.”

“Fetch her out! We’ve got to see her!”

“But gentlemen, the poor thing, she---“

“FETCH HER OUT!”

He “fetched her out,” and they swung their hats and sent up three rousing cheers, and they crowded around and gazed at her, and touched her dress, and listened to her voice with the look of men who listened to a memory rather than a present reality---and then they collected twenty-five hundreds dollars in gold and gave it to the man,

and went home satisfied.

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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Lateinische Handschriften - Collection of Latin Manuscripts

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:25:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Die erste Ablichtung zeigt einen Ausschnitt aus der Briefsammlung des Mönchs Wernher, Kloster Tegernsee, etwa aus dem Jahre 1170.
The first image shows a part of a Latin love letter (contained in the collection of Wernher the Monk, circa 1170) with the Middle High German verse

Dû bist mîn, ih bin dîn:
des solt dû gewis sîn.
dû bist beslozzen
in mînem herzen:
verlorn ist daz slüzzelîn:
dû muost immer drinne sîn.

[English:
You are mine, I am yours
Of that you may be sure
Deep within my heart
You're safely locked away
But I have lost the key
And there you'll ever stay]

(Mehr darüber in JoHammonia's Scratchbook.)

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The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek preserves an extensive collection of manuscripts, which will be made available step by step to the interested public on the Internet. The offer of works available in digitised form is expanded continuously. The digital copies produced from the originals are full colour copies, those produced from microfilms are available in a bitonal or grey-scale quality.

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Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek verwahrt einen großen Handschriftenbestand, den sie nach und nach über das Internet einem interessierten Publikum zugänglich machen möchte. Dieses digitale Angebot wird ständig erweitert. Die Digitalisate werden von Originalen in Farbe oder von vorhandenen Mikrofilmen in bitonaler Qualität bzw. in Graustufen hergestellt.

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Projektinformationen

Alphabetische Liste

Chronologische Liste

Liste nach Signaturen

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7. Jahrhundert

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Tags: latein, latin, mediaeval manuscripts, mittelalterliche handschriften

40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon

Wed, 28 May 2008 17:03:34 GMT

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40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART

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Pictures for sad children: sociological and politological observations

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:19:42 GMT

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Tags: sociology, psychology, politology, rivalry

Chernobyl 2008

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:29:19 GMT

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Pluto's Realm

It is really Plutonium that will reign here for thousands of years. It is extremely toxic and highly chemically reactive, half-life of Plutonium-239 is over 24,000 years. Plutonium is appropriately named after Pluto, god of the dead and ruler of the underworld

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Year after year it becomes more difficult to reach those distant towns and villages of Chernobyl; roads overgrown, trees falling and bridges collapse.

I am never bored with looking at Chernobyl's dead towns and villages. As I travel the picture moves on, it seems always tells the same story: ruined towns, destroyed villages, abandoned farms... but the moving panorama is never the same, it is always different.. I never get bored with it, just like I never bored with looking at the flame of a camp-fire or watching the waves of the sea

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might look like complete chaos. But chaos they are not, for chaos is an absence of order and what we see is a massive re-ordering of the surface of the earth according to the laws of nature

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The Epic of Gilgamesh - the oldest written story on Earth

Fri, 30 May 2008 02:21:14 GMT

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is, perhaps, the oldest written story on Earth. It comes to us from Ancient Sumeria, and was originally written on 12 clay tablets in cunieform script. It is about the adventures of the historical King of Uruk (somewhere between 2750 and 2500 BCE).

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Supreme over other kings, lordly in appearance,
he is the hero, born of Uruk, the goring wild bull.
He walks out in front, the leader,
and walks at the rear, trusted by his companions.
Mighty net, protector of his people,
raging flood-wave who destroys even walls of stone!

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It was he who opened the mountain passes,
who dug wells on the flank of the mountain.
It was he who crossed the ocean, the vast seas, to the rising sun,
who explored the world regions, seeking life.
It was he who reached by his own sheer strength Utanapishtim, the Faraway,
who restored the sanctuaries (or: cities) that the Flood had destroyed!

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beautiful, handsomest of men,
... perfect

defective verbs

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:36:49 GMT

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In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb with an incomplete conjugation.

The most commonly recognized defective verbs in English are the class of preterite-present verbs — can, may, shall, might, must, and will (which was not historically a preterite-present but has joined the class in modern English).

For example, can lacks an infinitive, future tense, participle, and gerund. The missing parts of speech, however, can be expressed by using the appropriate forms of to be plus able to. So, while I could do it and I was able to do it are equivalent, one cannot say *I will can, *I have canned, or *canning do it, but would still be able to say I will be able to, I have been able to, and being able to do it.

Examples from other languages

French: frire ("to fry", lacks non-compound past forms), éclore ("to hatch", theorically lacks an imperfect, although speakers easily fill it in)

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Rubaiyat (quatrains) of Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia (1048-1122)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:09:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Medieval Sourcebook: Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat, c. 1120, trans. E. H. Whinfield
Irania.eu Omar Khayyam Robaiyat
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia (First edition)
Biography
Philosophy of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyám - Wikipedia EN

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Some look for truth in creeds, and forms, and rules;
Some grope for doubts or dogmas in the schools;
But from behind the veil a voice proclaims,
"Your road lies neither here nor there, O fools."

Young wooer, charm all hearts with lover's art,
Glad winner, lead thy paragon apart!
A hundred Kaabas equal not one heart,
Seek not the Kaaba, rather seek a heart!

Better to make one soul rejoice with glee,
Than plant a desert with a colony;
Rather one freeman bind with chains of love,
Than set a thousand prisoned captives free!

They who by genius, and by power of brain,
The rank of man's enlighteners attain,
Not even they emerge from this dark night,
But tell their dreams, and fall asleep again.

Although the creeds number some seventy-three,
I hold with none but that of loving Thee;
What matter faith, unfaith, obedience, sin?
Thou'rt all we need, the rest is vanity.

Tags: omar khayyam, rubaiyat, quatrains, poems, persia, literature, religion, philosophy, middle ages

The Online Books Page

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:54:23 GMT

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Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web - Updated Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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Die Religion der Subjektivität (Jean Jacques Rousseau) - wdr5 podcast 2007-09-07

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:23:45 GMT

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Das philosophische Radio vom 7. September 2007, 21.05 Uhr

Die meisten Menschen haben eine Kindheitsreligiosität erworben, die spätestens in der Pubertät ihre Plausibilität verliert. Mit der heutigen "Wiederkehr der Religionen" verbreitet sich auch die Frage: "Was ist eigentlich meine eigene Religion?" Die Philosophie kann bei der Suche nach einer Antwort Orientierung leisten. Jean Jacques Rousseau hat mit seiner "natürlichen Religion" interessante Denkangebote geschaffen. Er betont das Recht des Gefühls, wendet sich gegen die Vorherrschaft des Intellektes und der Ratio. Mit der Maxime, dass wir Gottes Wesen zwar nicht erkennen, sich seine Existenz aber in unserem Gemüt kund tut, betont Rousseau den einfachen, natürlichen Menschenverstand.

Lutz von Werder stellt die Ideen Rousseaus zur Diskussion.

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WDR 5 - Das philosophische Radio: Die Religion der Subjektivität - Jean Jacques Rousseau; Sendung vom 07.09.2007

Tags: rousseau, glaube, religiosität, religion, gefühl, intellekt

Original Alice

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:29:25 GMT

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THE ORIGINAL ALICE

Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground - Introduction

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This manuscript - one of the British Library's best - loved treasures - is the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician.

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Chapter one

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and where is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? So she was considering in her own mind, (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain was worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

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Tags: literature, alice, lewis carroll, wonderland, alice's adventures underground