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Cartoon: "I managed to defeat the monster with philology."
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Adam Funk
Nov 19, 2022, 9:15:05 AM11/19/22
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<https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
--
Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are
socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only
between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them
imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members.
---Buckminster Fuller
--
Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are
socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only
between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them
imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members.
---Buckminster Fuller
Quinn C
Nov 19, 2022, 11:13:27 AM11/19/22
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* Adam Funk:
> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
Translation is quite the challenge, of course.
<https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
--
It's like a bloody war zone up there. And not in a good way.
-- Spike, Buffy S07E13
> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
Translation is quite the challenge, of course.
<https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
--
It's like a bloody war zone up there. And not in a good way.
-- Spike, Buffy S07E13
Christian Weisgerber
Nov 19, 2022, 11:30:07 AM11/19/22
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On 2022-11-19, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
><https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
Indeed, "wer" is specifically a male, as opposed to "mann", human being.
Italic shows the same shift, with Latin "vir" (male) being lost in
Romance and "homo" (human) taking over the meaning of 'male'.
It would be tempting to blame Christianization...
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
><https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
Indeed, "wer" is specifically a male, as opposed to "mann", human being.
Italic shows the same shift, with Latin "vir" (male) being lost in
Romance and "homo" (human) taking over the meaning of 'male'.
It would be tempting to blame Christianization...
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
Christian Weisgerber
Nov 19, 2022, 12:30:06 PM11/19/22
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On 2022-11-19, Quinn C <lispa...@crommatograph.info> wrote:
> This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
> declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
><https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
> This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
> declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
For those who don't know German: This takes the "Wer-" component,
which is as opaque in German as its English counterpart, and
re-interprets it as the interrogative/relative pronoun "wer" (who,
what).
lar3ryca
Nov 19, 2022, 2:36:14 PM11/19/22
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On 2022-11-19 09:51, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2022-11-19, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> Indeed, "wer" is specifically a male, as opposed to "mann", human being.
>
> Italic shows the same shift, with Latin "vir" (male) being lost in
> Romance and "homo" (human) taking over the meaning of 'male'.
>
> It would be tempting to blame Christianization...
Don't blame yourself, Christian.
> On 2022-11-19, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> Indeed, "wer" is specifically a male, as opposed to "mann", human being.
>
> Italic shows the same shift, with Latin "vir" (male) being lost in
> Romance and "homo" (human) taking over the meaning of 'male'.
>
> It would be tempting to blame Christianization...
--
Dogs actually won the space race.
Horace LaBadie
Nov 19, 2022, 2:42:47 PM11/19/22
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Ruud Harmsen
Nov 19, 2022, 4:59:39 PM11/19/22
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Sat, 19 Nov 2022 11:13:20 -0500: Quinn C
<lispa...@crommatograph.info> scribeva:
>* Adam Funk:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
>This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
>declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
LOL.
>Translation is quite the challenge, of course.
Sure.
><https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
--
Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.com
<lispa...@crommatograph.info> scribeva:
>* Adam Funk:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
>This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
>declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
>Translation is quite the challenge, of course.
><https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
--
Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.com
Ruud Harmsen
Nov 19, 2022, 5:06:33 PM11/19/22
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>* Adam Funk:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
>This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
>declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
>Translation is quite the challenge, of course.
>
><https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
What geniuses, all those smart translations! I couldn't have thought
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
>This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
>declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
>Translation is quite the challenge, of course.
>
><https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
of any of this. But I found the original very funny.
Adam Funk
Nov 20, 2022, 4:45:05 AM11/20/22
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On 2022-11-19, Quinn C wrote:
> * Adam Funk:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
> declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
> Translation is quite the challenge, of course.
>
><https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
A German joke I can understand --- thanks!
> * Adam Funk:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> This immediately evoked the Morgenstern poem where a werewolf gets
> declined: der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf.
> Translation is quite the challenge, of course.
>
><https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/der-werwolf/>
--
Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water,
or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol? ---General Ripper
Peter Moylan
Nov 20, 2022, 8:58:38 PM11/20/22
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On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I was in
an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the thought that
"wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
--
Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW http://www.pmoylan.org
> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I was in
an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the thought that
"wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
--
Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW http://www.pmoylan.org
Jeff Barnett
Nov 20, 2022, 11:29:21 PM11/20/22
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On 11/20/2022 6:58 PM, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I was in
> an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the thought that
> "wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
> segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
> werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
I recommend the OTC medicine called Sleep Aid.
> On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I was in
> an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the thought that
> "wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
> segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
> werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
--
Jeff Barnett
Adam Funk
Nov 21, 2022, 10:30:06 AM11/21/22
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On 2022-11-21, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I was in
> an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the thought that
> "wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
> segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
> werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
I wonder if Terry Pratchett considered that but thought it would be
> On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I was in
> an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the thought that
> "wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
> segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
> werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
too recherché (even for his readers).
--
The love of money as a possession ... will be recognised for what it
is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal,
semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to
the specialists in mental disease. ---J M Keynes
Sam Plusnet
Nov 21, 2022, 1:58:53 PM11/21/22
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On 21-Nov-22 15:24, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2022-11-21, Peter Moylan wrote:
>
>> On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
>>
>>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>>
>> By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I was in
>> an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the thought that
>> "wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
>> segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
>> werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
>
> I wonder if Terry Pratchett considered that but thought it would be
> too recherché (even for his readers).
That's what footnotes are for.
> On 2022-11-21, Peter Moylan wrote:
>
>> On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
>>
>>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>>
>> By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I was in
>> an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the thought that
>> "wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
>> segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
>> werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
>
> I wonder if Terry Pratchett considered that but thought it would be
> too recherché (even for his readers).
--
Sam Plusnet
Richard Heathfield
Dec 2, 2022, 1:45:21 PM12/2/22
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On 21/11/2022 1:58 am, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I
> was in
> an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the
> thought that
> "wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
> segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
> werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
Not since changing her shampoo.
> On 20/11/22 01:00, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> <https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wif>
>
> By coincidence I was thinking of this very topic last night. (I
> was in
> an unfamiliar bed, and couldn't sleep.) It started with the
> thought that
> "wermann and wifmann" somehow evolved into "man and wife". But that
> segued into a worry that the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had a female
> werewolf. Shouldn't she be a wifwolf?
--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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