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05-10-2001, 08:14 AM
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Anubis
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So basically you are saying that we girlies actually are men with a little something more ! Damn this Freud man trying to have us thinking the opposite ...
 I am both a man and a woman - can you say such ?  I am a WOW!-man !!!  ------------------   The world is my oyster ! And now I have the knives to open it ... |
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05-10-2001, 08:14 AM
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05-10-2001, 08:18 AM
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Anubis
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Actually, Yorick, I just mad a little etymological research - it seems that 'woman' doesn't come from 'womb' but from an Old English word 'wifmann', mann meaning mankind and wiff meaning female (this word ultimately gave 'wife').
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05-10-2001, 08:36 AM
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Very Mad Bird
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 Maybe thats true, in which case what did the wiff mean as opposed to wiffmann being shortened to wiff. Why was it added in the first place? How many other guys call/called their wives Wiff? I did. Wiffy, Wiff. Seems the language unwittingly did a full circle in my case ------------------ I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on....  A fair dinkum laughing Hyena! [This message has been edited by Yorick (edited 05-10-2001).] |
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05-10-2001, 08:50 AM
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Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess
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When I studied english we had some papers on this subject. Alot of doing with the sefaring around scandinavia and also the english islands. Alot of words were borrowed from each other. There is an old saga called just the seafarer fromaround eh 900 ac something and it´s originated from england and I could understand it without problems because more than half the words sounded like alot of the words used today in many scandinavian languages. I can have alook and see if I can dig out some of my notes about it if anyone is interested (or if my now partying werewolf hasn´t gotten to them first.) ------------------  WOLF WINS EVERY FIGHT BUT ONE, AND IN THAT ONE, HE DIES |
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05-10-2001, 08:54 AM
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Wolfie, just look at the Days of the week in English, some of them are borrowed from the scandinavians and named after their Norse gods
Wednesday = Wodan Thursday = Thor Friday = Freya (sp?) ------------------ Holy Avenger of the OHF and part time Pinguindiebjäger |
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Can you explain why that is? Is it just customary...or is there some sort of reason for not referring to surgeons as "Dr."? Seems to me that is a little bizarre as surgeons are simply specialized doctors. I'm curious...  Thanks! ------------------  Now where did I leave that doughnut?! |
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05-10-2001, 09:05 AM
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Moon day Tue's day (Celtic God of War I believe) Woden's day (Norse King God Odin's day) Thor's day (Norse God of Thunder) Freya's day (Norse Goddess of Love and Beauty I believe) Saturn' day (King of the Titan's - Zeus' father) What gets me about the months of the year is they made perfect sense: OCTober (eight) SEPTember (seventh) NOVember (ninth) and DECember (tenth) until some idiot added July (Julius Caeser) and August (Augustus Caeser) IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR!!!! Hello! ------------------ I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on.... A fair dinkum laughing Hyena! |
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05-10-2001, 09:09 AM
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05-10-2001, 09:09 AM
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Anubis
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I always wondered why some but not all English names were so different from the French ones ! French names for the days of the week smply come from the Solar System planets :Lundi = Monday = Moon day (Moon = Lune) Mardi = Tuesday = Mars day Mercredi = Wednesday = Mercury day Jeudi = Thursday = Jupiter day Vendredi = Friday = Venus day Samedi = Saturday = Saturn day Dimanche = Sunday = ??? (I don't know for this one ...) ------------------ The world is my oyster ! And now I have the knives to open it ... |
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