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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:38 pm
by palmboy5
he knew.

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:36 pm
by Antix
Just cuz he's a english teacher or w/e doesn't mean that he knows everything related... it's an impossibility. A person can know a lot, just not everything... not even for a specific field.

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:24 am
by philp
I'm not an English teacher and I never was. I also never claimed to know everything on any subject. :wink:

Some words, like oxymoron, intrigue me and I want to know as much as I can about them. Including their origins. You can blame the school system for that. They had dictionaries right there in the classroom and had the audacity to tell students to look up any word they didn't understand. Can you believe that?! :roll: :P

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:02 am
by palmboy5
ROFL i see some ppl are misunderstanding his title

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:47 pm
by 2005
Ive always held somewhat of an interest in etymology

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:15 pm
by palmboy5
dude.. even after looking that up i still dunno wtf that means

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:19 pm
by philp
The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where possible.

In other words (pun intended), it's the study of the origin of words.

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:55 pm
by palmboy5
oh good.


umm yeah *laugh*

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:19 pm
by 2005
yea, when you boil it all down the origins of words make sense

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:45 pm
by palmboy5
then the nature of humans fuck it all up.. mhm

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:57 pm
by philp
palmboy5 wrote:then the nature of humans fuck it all up.. mhm
If there was truly a universal language then that statement might have weight.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:22 am
by Antix
I'm not gonna read this right now.. I'll write a bit later maybe... Although I'm gonna be gone for 4 months in about a wk or so...

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:56 am
by palmboy5
SHYT lol >< where to?