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29 September 2011
John Donne. "Songs and Sonnets."
John Donne. "Songs and Sonnets.":
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/
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HOLY SONNETS.
X.
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ;
For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be,
Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then ?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/
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when I get an actual keyboard (this is all being typed with On-screen Keyboard - the horror!) revisit & cf. ALL Donne works esp:
Woman's Constancy - it could absolutely be a late 20th/21st century poem from a woman to a man, even and especially the phrase 'vain lunatic' : )
Farewell To Love - CRAZY! Overtly comparing pussy - and by that I mean Vagina - to love for Christ. (...the desire, the mystery...)Pussy turns out to be the big disappointment. It's great!
&
an early favorite, follow the link or read below
X.
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ;
For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be,
Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then ?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die.
10 September 2011
Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms
Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms:
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Awesome Blog
Got to it while searching for this Awesome Quote:
"You get a wonderful view from the point of no return." M. von Lipwig
by Terry Pratchett from his DiscWorld series
29 August 2011
SYLLOGISM & EMPIRICISM/EMPRICAL
SYLLOGISM http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/syllogism
Deductive reasoning
Forming a conclusion through discourse, based on knowledge and reason
To reckon (one of my recent favorite words, check the bottom of my entry entitled 'Fais Do-Do' for more on 'to reckon)
Etymology - Check out entry entitled "LOGOS", syllogism from Greek 'syn' (together) plus 'logos' (to reason, to count, and hundreds of other meanings...just check out your previous "LOGOS" entry) : )
EMPIRICAL http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/empirical
Inductive reasoning
Forming conclusions based on observation, experience and experiments
Etymology - from Online Etymology Dictionary
Deductive reasoning
Forming a conclusion through discourse, based on knowledge and reason
To reckon (one of my recent favorite words, check the bottom of my entry entitled 'Fais Do-Do' for more on 'to reckon)
Etymology - Check out entry entitled "LOGOS", syllogism from Greek 'syn' (together) plus 'logos' (to reason, to count, and hundreds of other meanings...just check out your previous "LOGOS" entry) : )
EMPIRICAL http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/empirical
Inductive reasoning
Forming conclusions based on observation, experience and experiments
Etymology - from Online Etymology Dictionary
from L. empiricus , from Gk. empeirikos "experienced," from empeiria "experience," from empeiros "skilled," from en- "in" + peira "trial, experiment." Originally a school of ancient physicians who based their practice on experience rather than theory.
23 August 2011
EARTHQUAKE!
!!!EARTHQUAKE!!!
Seriously, there was an Earthquake today! Well, now it actually happened yesterday, therefore on Tuesday, 23 August 2011, at approximately 1400 I experienced my first Earthquake!
It was so fucking weird. I was in bed trying to figure out if I should sleep more or get up. I was in a pickle because supposedly Rafe was coming tomorrow (today) morning with the exterminators so I was trying to get myself up for a cleaning marathon but I was so anxious about it I hadn't actually been able to sleep. So I was cranky, about 1/4 asleep, and then...
I felt like I was swaying...but I was aware it was the bed, the room. It was just for a second, so I thought maybe I had misinterpreted the affects or the vibrations of some type of construction in the neighborhood...and THEN we were OFF!
And I was really swaying back and forth! I was in bed and confused...like "is this really happening?!?!" IT was like swaying back and forth on a giant swing, it actually wasn't unpleasant except that I knew I needed to get much more scared than I was and that I might need to take action...but then, fortunately, it just suddenly stopped. While it was happening, and this is weird but I felt like...I couldn't stop it. Of course I couldn't stop it! But it's that feeling and realization that you have no control. It's funny, but that's exactly what Mom said to me..."You realize how you don't have any control..." And I was like "Yeah Mom, of course, none of us have control over anything...duh!" I am such a snot! : )
It lasted for maybe 10 or fifteen seconds. It originated in Mineral, VA and apparently was a five.9. It went all the way up the East Coast and was felt in Toronto, Ohio...they closed LaGuardia in NY for a little bit and of course evacuated all the office buildings in DC. The news people went crazy and even an hour later were showing "footage" of people in NY and DC standing on the streets...like, they couldn't go back into their buildings and they couldn't go home! Poor assholes.
Mom said it was really scary. Poor Mommy! She was on the sixth floor, and the building was swaying back and forth and stuff was falling off her desk and cabinets and her drawers were opening. I tried to call her immediately afterwards...of course she was my first call...and I kept on calling her, Carly called her...but she didn't get back to use until about 1five00! Interestingly enough, Rafe got in touch with me before Mom did! : ) I guess they had evacuated and had to stand outside their building for over an hour, and of course all the phone lines, cell phones included, were down because everybody freaked out at the same time and tried to call somebody.
I texted and called Carly, but I didn't talk to her until she got home with Bill and Cory at their usual 1440. They were all O.K., and according to Bill and Carly they were in Reston, in the car, and felt nothing!
I went to the pool at 1five30, and after I swam I talked to these 'office' ladies in the pool, some of whom where there because they got to leave work early cuz of the Quake. One lady told me she had been in the pool with some of her friends at the time and that they felt NOTHING. She then told me that a man was swimming laps and he swam up to them and said "Did you feel the earthquake?". The ladies thought he was making a sexual, macho boast about his swimming so they were like "Oh yeah, we feel that earthquake!" and one of them said "We better look out for the Tsunami!". Then, apparently all the neighbors started running out of their houses, freaking out (I was one of these people, but I simply stuck my head out the door to make sure a plane hadn't crashed in the parking lot) going "Did you feel the Earthquake!?!?!" Then the ladies realized that the man was asking them a genuine question, not hitting on them, and apparently they were embarrassed and apologized to him. So funny!
And...I lucked out with Rafe and the Exterminators. Apparently Rafe 'miscommunicated' with them and they're not coming today, and he's decided not to come at all. (Yeah!) We rescheduled for Monday, 29 August 2011 between 1000 and 1200. While it is nice to have more time...I wish the fucking cockroaches had been killed in the Quake!!!
The great QUAKE off 2011!!!!!!
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Seriously, there was an Earthquake today! Well, now it actually happened yesterday, therefore on Tuesday, 23 August 2011, at approximately 1400 I experienced my first Earthquake!
It was so fucking weird. I was in bed trying to figure out if I should sleep more or get up. I was in a pickle because supposedly Rafe was coming tomorrow (today) morning with the exterminators so I was trying to get myself up for a cleaning marathon but I was so anxious about it I hadn't actually been able to sleep. So I was cranky, about 1/4 asleep, and then...
I felt like I was swaying...but I was aware it was the bed, the room. It was just for a second, so I thought maybe I had misinterpreted the affects or the vibrations of some type of construction in the neighborhood...and THEN we were OFF!
And I was really swaying back and forth! I was in bed and confused...like "is this really happening?!?!" IT was like swaying back and forth on a giant swing, it actually wasn't unpleasant except that I knew I needed to get much more scared than I was and that I might need to take action...but then, fortunately, it just suddenly stopped. While it was happening, and this is weird but I felt like...I couldn't stop it. Of course I couldn't stop it! But it's that feeling and realization that you have no control. It's funny, but that's exactly what Mom said to me..."You realize how you don't have any control..." And I was like "Yeah Mom, of course, none of us have control over anything...duh!" I am such a snot! : )
It lasted for maybe 10 or fifteen seconds. It originated in Mineral, VA and apparently was a five.9. It went all the way up the East Coast and was felt in Toronto, Ohio...they closed LaGuardia in NY for a little bit and of course evacuated all the office buildings in DC. The news people went crazy and even an hour later were showing "footage" of people in NY and DC standing on the streets...like, they couldn't go back into their buildings and they couldn't go home! Poor assholes.
Mom said it was really scary. Poor Mommy! She was on the sixth floor, and the building was swaying back and forth and stuff was falling off her desk and cabinets and her drawers were opening. I tried to call her immediately afterwards...of course she was my first call...and I kept on calling her, Carly called her...but she didn't get back to use until about 1five00! Interestingly enough, Rafe got in touch with me before Mom did! : ) I guess they had evacuated and had to stand outside their building for over an hour, and of course all the phone lines, cell phones included, were down because everybody freaked out at the same time and tried to call somebody.
I texted and called Carly, but I didn't talk to her until she got home with Bill and Cory at their usual 1440. They were all O.K., and according to Bill and Carly they were in Reston, in the car, and felt nothing!
I went to the pool at 1five30, and after I swam I talked to these 'office' ladies in the pool, some of whom where there because they got to leave work early cuz of the Quake. One lady told me she had been in the pool with some of her friends at the time and that they felt NOTHING. She then told me that a man was swimming laps and he swam up to them and said "Did you feel the earthquake?". The ladies thought he was making a sexual, macho boast about his swimming so they were like "Oh yeah, we feel that earthquake!" and one of them said "We better look out for the Tsunami!". Then, apparently all the neighbors started running out of their houses, freaking out (I was one of these people, but I simply stuck my head out the door to make sure a plane hadn't crashed in the parking lot) going "Did you feel the Earthquake!?!?!" Then the ladies realized that the man was asking them a genuine question, not hitting on them, and apparently they were embarrassed and apologized to him. So funny!
And...I lucked out with Rafe and the Exterminators. Apparently Rafe 'miscommunicated' with them and they're not coming today, and he's decided not to come at all. (Yeah!) We rescheduled for Monday, 29 August 2011 between 1000 and 1200. While it is nice to have more time...I wish the fucking cockroaches had been killed in the Quake!!!
The great QUAKE off 2011!!!!!!
<3ALE<3
"Fais Do-Do" or Another French Related Entry
WHAT ON EARTH IS "FAIS DO-DO"!!!!
I heard the song Fais Do-Do* and, of course, I couldn't let this go. I understood most of the song, except for that inscrutable, oft repeated first line. It made me crazy for two or three weeks and I'm not quite sure why I didn't consult my good friend Internet before now....and thank you Internet! Seriously, I just typed "fais" in the search engine and I think "fais do-do" was the 2nd option Google offered. Glad I'm not a scholar, it probably takes forever to find information that aids in endeavors important humanity via the Internet.
I heard the song Fais Do-Do* and, of course, I couldn't let this go. I understood most of the song, except for that inscrutable, oft repeated first line. It made me crazy for two or three weeks and I'm not quite sure why I didn't consult my good friend Internet before now....and thank you Internet! Seriously, I just typed "fais" in the search engine and I think "fais do-do" was the 2nd option Google offered. Glad I'm not a scholar, it probably takes forever to find information that aids in endeavors important humanity via the Internet.
"Fais Do-Do" does, as I suspected (really! I had already figured out what it meant! I just couldn't quite figure out why, and I didn't have proof!) means to "make sleep" in that Faire is 'to do or to make' and "Do-Do" is a diminutive of "Dormir". For the etymology check out the wikipedia article, which is actually good, containing direct quotes and references!
Long story short "Faid do-do" is the name of an old, therefore traditional, childrens song with no author or date, some of the lyrics apparently printed in 1871. "Fais do-do" is also commonly known as a name for a Cajun dance party which originated before World War II, acquiring the name because it was what the mothers would sing to put their baby's to sleep before coming out to party. My own suspicion of why they called it a "fais do-do" is because of the age-old link between parties/sleep/sex. You know, the "BED" Party : ) ... but, as I said, that is my own opinion, I'm not quoting an official source.
Link to a youtube recording of a version of the song:
Lyrics from the above Youtube page for practicing French speaking (listening to the song), language and translation:
Transuit: Depuis 'milk' en francais est 'le lait', je suppose que c'est la maniere 'lolo' est fait, est aussi pourquoi il les moyens 'boob' et 'treat'!
LE BON TRAVAIL!
CHORUS:
Fais do-do Make sleep-sleep / Go to sleep
Colas mon p'tit frère (Ni)C(h)olas little brother
Fais do-do Make sleep-sleep / Go to sleep
t'auras du (lolo) you will have of / you should have (see below for 'lolo')
lolo milk/boob or treat (seriously!...see Google Translate!)
Colas mon p'tit frère (Ni)C(h)olas little brother
Fais do-do Make sleep-sleep / Go to sleep
t'auras du (lolo) you will have of / you should have (see below for 'lolo')
lolo milk/boob or treat (seriously!...see Google Translate!)
CHORUS x2
Maman est en haut Mom is in high / Mom is upstairs
Qui fait des gâteaux Who make of cakes / Making cakes
Papa est en bas Dad is in low / Dad is downstairs
Qui fait chocolat Who make chocolate / making chocolate
CHORUS x2
Les anges là haut The angels there high / The angels up there
font un beau chateau Make a beautiful house / Make a beautiful castle
Pour le p'tit frérot For the little brother (frerot is brother? interesting)
qui fait bien dodo Who makes good sleep-sleep
CHORUS x2
Les gentils oiseaux The nice birds
ont des chants nouveux have of songs new / have new songs
Pour le p'tit frérot For the little brother
qui fait bien dodo Who makes good sleep-sleep
CHORUS x2
Transuit: Depuis 'milk' en francais est 'le lait', je suppose que c'est la maniere 'lolo' est fait, est aussi pourquoi il les moyens 'boob' et 'treat'!
LE BON TRAVAIL!
AND ANOTHER EXERCISE IN TRANSLATION
I found this phrase in one of the youtube comments by a native french speaker and it's interesting because my translation...a more literal translation...is different from the google translation...I guess a functional translation. Anyway, I'm writing it down for the same reason as yesterday...to help me remember the literal meanings of those 'small' French words, and to help me get back on track with learning reading and speaking French.
"Ca doit être une autre version."
ça - it
doit - must
être -to be (the infinitive)
une - a (feminine)
autre - other
version - version
and...Google Translate reckons** this as "It must be another version"
*In two or three episodes of True Blood Season 4 a young mother cajun ghost named Mavis becomes obsessed with a living baby who she believes to be her own...of course, she can't move one since her baby was actually murdered by it's white father right before he murdered her...so she eventually possesses the character Lafayette and steals the living baby. Luckily the other characters figure out what happened before they try to kill or convict Lafayette and they help Mavis to remember and come to terms with her past, enabling her to move into the light. AWWW! : )
**RECKON - more British English! Yes, we have it in American, but it only seems to be used by southerners and hill folk! At first I didn't like it just for that reason (I know, I'm a snob, but I'm sure some of it is based on self hatred since I myself am hill folk : ) ) but after several years I realized the Brits were on to something in that the only synonyms for "Reckon" are long ass phrases, i.e. "I have determined the cause of the Earthquake to be" vs. "I reckon the Earthquake was caused by..." . See! Much simpler! (Yes, Earthquakes on my mind...today, or actually yesterday, was the day of the Earthquake! I'll make a separate Post.) Also, it's related to the word from yesterday "SUSS", which is similar in meaning to "RECKON". Why on earth did these words not make it to American? Also, why don't we have the expression "Taking the piss." and/or it's 'polite' alternative "Taking the mickey." There isn't a similar expression in American and to craft an approximate meaning is difficult and artless. Instead of "When she called you an idiot savant she was taking the piss" you say "When she called you an idiot savant she was ...just fucking with you. OR ...making fun of you." See!?!? Not as cool!
I need to create separate posts for these awesome musings on the difference between British/Australian/New Zealandish/Canadian/American. I'm sure professional linguists have no interest in these things! : )
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A historical French grammar - Google Books
A historical French grammar - Google Books
I should read this entire book. This link is to page 314 which discusses the word 'CESTUI', and while wading through the text (it is difficult...old french, old latin, modern french, vulgar latin...and then there's my inept concept of the english language!) of section entitled "The Pronoun" and reading the examples Mr. Arsene Darmesteter provided I finally REALIZED why I even included the words "lui" and "celui" in the examples in my previous post...because "CESTUI" is "CE" "EST" "LUI"! DUH! I was so desperately trying to communicate this to myself!!!!
Anyway, it's all in this great, long, book and I think the entire thing is available online via Google Books.
One mystery (partially) solved!
And that's why this blog is called...
REALISE!
22 August 2011
My Basic French Lesson
aka Words I Always Forget
I always forget the actual meaning of the little French words...then I find expressions I can't suss* because I can't remember the exact meanings of the individual little words. This is partly because of the French convention of smushing all the little words together with apostrophes, but mostly because of my recent lax attitude towards improving my French and Latin.
Anyway, the big mystery word of the day is the Medieval French/English law word "CESTUI", found in the legal expression "cestui que use" an expression which has a long an storied history buried in the arcana of Roman and Medieval French and English law but which we would today call the 'beneficiary' of a trust. I've read through entire histories on the origins of the expression "cestui que..." which contain a great deal of information, but most of the info is about the legal history of the expression and I've found none so far which can divine the most inscrutable of words..."CESTUI".
I have a problem because it is Medieval French...I have enough problems with Medieval English. Now, most first year French students could tell you that it looks a little bit like the word "c'est" in modern French which translates to "it is" or "that", but it is here that I encountered my problem. I could remember so many expressions containing "c'est", "ce", "est", "qu'est que c'est", "celui" etc... but I couldn't remember the exact meaning of 'ce', 'est'...I mean I could but it always seems to lead to more expressions and since French isn't an exact reproduction of English the words and phrases are used in different ways, which lead to ancient tomes on French etymology which started confusing me even more.
THEREFORE...for my own memory and peace of mind I making myself copy the most basic words and their individual meanings. For this purpose I am using Google Translate, which is a good tool for basic individual word translation.
THE "FORGETTABLE" WORDS:
ce - this
est - is
lui - him, it, he (can also mean she as 'he, him, his' considered the generic in French)
c'est - this is or that
celui - that
celui-ci - this one
celui-là - that one
que - as pronoun that, which, what, whom; adj. what; adv. how; prep. than; conj. than, whether
quelle - as adj. what, which, whichever; pron. which, whoever
Des exemples de Que et Quelle:
Qu'est-ce que c'est? - What is it? In this phrase is 'What" the adjective "QUELLE" or the prounoun "QUE"? I initially thought it was "QUE" because it appears "What" can be used by itself and refers to someone or something else in the discourse...(PRONOUN: A word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse)...but see the example and definition below. Also, I suss* the literal translation of this sentence to be "What is it that it is?"
Quelle heure est-il? - What time is it? or What hour is it?
This lead me to question how the word "WHAT" functions in a sentence. In the previous example "Qu'est-ce que..." I thought "Qu' " was "Que" and therefore a pronoun, but in the sentence "Quelle heure..." the word "What" is an adjective since, according to Google Translate, "Quelle" means "What" as an adjective. However, in both sentences it seems to me that "What..." basically means the same thing. Also, I can see how "What" could be an adjective since "What" is a description of time if the answer was "It is six o'clock"..."six o'clock" being equal to "what". It sort of makes sense. In "What is it?" if the answer was "A Bunny" than "What" equals "A Bunny" therefore "A Bunny" is a description of "...it?". ??? This is confusing and I am obviously going to need to research this issue. Right now I'm too tired and have too much to do to stay up researching, so I will finish with the examples I've already prepared, then tomorrow I will pursue this quest. I've also decided to officially stop searching for "CESTUI" as that can also be researched tomorrow.
Qu'est-ce que vous appelez-vous? - "What is your name?" or direct translation "What is it that you call you?"
Je préfère être chaud que froid. - "I'd rather be hot than cold." or "I prefer to be hot than cold." I included this example because it showed how "que" is used in the French language has a preposition or conjunction in comparative sentences. Since I am going to research grammar tomorrow I'll wait until then to include better examples and to finally decide whether (whether would be "que" in French!) "que" is a preposition or conjunction in this case. Currently my money is on conjunction since it can also be used as "whether" in similar instances.
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FOR TOMORROW: Research and try to actually LEARN grammar (years and years of me begging myself to do this) my specific goal being to uncover how the word "What" functions in both the English and French languages. Also pursue to ancient hidden meaning of the Medieval French/English Law Word "CESTUI".
...AND FINALLY
*SUSS - (yes, my "British English" is actively improving : )) "to understand" or "to divine the meaning of"
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21 July 2011
Scamp | Define Scamp at Dictionary.com
My Favorite!!! My childhood puppies name! I didn't realize it was a real word!!!
30 April 2011
15 February 2011
Mating plug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mating plug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MY NEW FAVORITE WORD FOR THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
27 January 2011
File:Logos.gif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But what does it mean? Of the top of my head I've always etymologized it as name, designation or system. And of course, from my Liturgical background (see the post below on 30 December 2010) I learned about the three types of love; eros (possesive and/or erotic), logos (word ), agape (selfless, charis, as is God's love).
The following entry is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos;
Logos (pronounced /ˈloʊɡɒs/, /ˈlɒɡɒs/ (UK), or /ˈloʊɡoʊs/ (US); Greek λόγος logos) is an important term in philosophy, psychology, rhetoric and religion. Originally a word meaning "word," "speech," "account," or "reason,"[1][2] it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus (ca. 535–475 BC), who used the term for the principle of order and knowledge.[3]
Ancient philosophers used the term in different ways however. The sophists used the term to mean discourse, and Aristotle applied the term to "reasoned discourse"[4] in the field of rhetoric. The Stoic philosophers identified the term with the divine animating principle pervading the Universe.
After Judaism came under Hellenistic influence, Philo (ca. 20 BC–AD 40) adopted the term into Jewish philosophy.[5] The Gospel of John identifies the Logos, through which all things are made, as divine (theos),[6] and further identifies Jesus as the incarnation of the Logos.
Although the term "Logos" is widely used in this Christian sense, in academic circles it often refers to the various ancient Greek uses, or to post-Christian uses within contemporary philosophy, Sufism, and the analytical psychology of Carl Jung.
Etymology and linguistic issues
In ordinary, non-technical Greek, logos had a semantic field extending beyond "word" to notions such as, on the one hand, language, talk, statement, speech, conversation, tale, story, prose, proposition, and principle; and on the other hand, thought, reason, account, consideration, esteem, due relation, proportion, and analogy.[1]
Despite the conventional translation as "word", it is not used for a word in the grammatical sense; instead, the term lexis (λέξις) was used.[7] However, both logos and lexis derive from the same verb legō (λέγω), meaning "to count, tell, say, speak".[1][7]
The Greeks distinguished between logos prophorikos (the uttered word) and the logos endiathetos (the word remaining within).[8] The Stoics also spoke of the logos spermatikos (the generative principle of the Universe), which is not important in the Biblical tradition, but is relevant in Neoplatonism.[9] Early translators from Greek, like Jerome in the 4th century, were frustrated by the inadequacy of any single Latin word to convey the Logos expressed in the Gospel of John. The Vulgate Bible usage of in principium erat verbum was thus constrained to use the perhaps inadequate noun verbum for word, but later romance languagetranslations had the advantage of nouns such as le mot in French. Reformation translators took another approach. Martin Luther rejected Zeitword (verb) in favor of Wort (word), for instance, although later commentators repeatedly turned to a more dynamic use involving the living word as felt by Jerome and Augustine.[10]
In English, logos is the root of "logic," and of the "-logy" suffix (e.g., geology).[11]
26 January 2011
Review of Pseudobulbar Affect Including a Novel and Potential Therapy -- Schiffer and Pope 17 (4): 447 -- J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci
Review of Pseudobulbar Affect Including a Novel and Potential Therapy -- Schiffer and Pope 17 (4): 447 -- J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci
Function: adj
: simulating that (as bulbar paralysis) which is caused by lesions ofthe medulla oblongata < pseudobulbar paralysis>
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lability
Interesting...Pseudobulbar Affect...somewhat describes how I feel at the onset of Paxil withdrawal, when I cry and laugh inappropriately. Also, pre-Paxil, when I couldn't control my impulses. Sometimes I think it is what Cory is experiencing when he starts the compulsive laughing. I never knew it's name. This article is interesting, it describes the history of the diagnosis including the different clinical terms that are and have been used to describe the syndrome. Thus far I haven't found etymology for the word '...bulbar'; also described as "emotional lability" which I think means 'lips'. O.K., I'm going to quickly look these two words up.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pseudobulbar
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pseudobulbar
pseu·do·bul·bar definition
Pronunciation: /-ˈbəl-bər/Function: adj
: simulating that (as bulbar paralysis) which is caused by lesions ofthe medulla oblongata < pseudobulbar paralysis>
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lability
| — adj | |
| 1. | chem (of a compound) prone to chemical change |
| 2. | liable to change or move |
| [C15: via Late Latin lābilis, from Latin lābī to slide, slip] Labia also is > L, the plural of Labium which apparently means lip or folds, etc...even though Labilis and Labium appear very similar and seem to share the root "LABI" I can only assume they are cognate because thus far I have found no definitive correlation between them. I suppose I need to continue my Latin Lessons. Now, back to... ...Pseudobulbar Affect! The other interesting thing about the article above (click on the link!) is that it is of course sponsored by Avanir Pharmaceuticals which developed a new 'treatment' which includes two drugs. The second one is quinidine, which I have never heard of or taken, but the first one just happens to be dextromethorphan! Ah...Nyquil! Or any other OTC cold medicine! It's sort of funny. Now I'm gonna finish the article as it does seem to contain interesting, or at least educational, information despite it's sponsor : ) And it's always exciting to have new vocabulary to describe the hell of Paxil withdrawal. : ) | |
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