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  • Durchfall, Cyclops -- interesting Vocab

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 15 12:49:36 2024
    XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin

    I've always loved the German word "Durchfall".

    in Jp slang (informal, vulgar) (poss. Regional)
    they used to be called
    "Express-train" (chou-Tokkyuu)
    --- maybe it's less common today.

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    "One-eyed"

    "Cyclops" literally means "round-eyed one." This name is
    a direct reference to the creature's most distinctive feature, its
    single, circular eye.


    ----- all my life... i got the impression that [Cyclops] lit. meant something to do with Eye(s) that circles... going round and round
    (around the head).


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    The Spanish word "tuerto" is derived from the Latin word "tortus," which means "twisted" or "crooked."
    This is likely due to the physical appearance of a
    one-eyed person, with one eye being twisted or out of place.


    --- the word Cyclone... seems close to Tornado.
    (turning, twisting)

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Jenny Telia on Wed Sep 18 00:58:24 2024
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    disjecta membra is an interesting expression
    because it reminds me of that old myth


    On 9/17/2024 3:39 AM, Jenny Telia wrote:
    On 15/09/2024 21:49, HenHanna wrote:

       I've always loved the German word "Durchfall".

    This is an English usage newsgroup, you stupid cunt.


    in this case, it's not bothering me,
    but pls make a note of it, when my thread
    is trashed with insipid and/or uninteresting
    irrelevant comment (e.g., from ACB)


    German: Durchfall (de) m, (informal) Dünnschiss (de) m, Diarrhö (de) f, Diarrhoe (de)


    Chinese:
    Cantonese: 肚屙 (tou5 o1)
    Mandarin: 腹瀉／腹泻 (zh) (fùxiè), 下痢 (zh) (xiàlì), (colloquial) 拉肚子 (zh)
    (lādùzi)


    痢 alone must mean [diarrhea],
    and 下痢 is more specific (with possible redundancy)

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