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WCDT Strips 3246-3250 (20-24th June 2016)

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Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 22 Jun 2016, 09:41 ---
--- Quote from: Scarblac on 22 Jun 2016, 04:57 --- Where the word "with" comes from is unclear to me, it doesn't sound like it's related to either 'med/mit/mee' or 'avec', not even to 'cum'.

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Quote from OED:
OE. wiš = OFris. with, OS. wiš, ON. viš (Sw. vid, Da. ved): app. a shortening (peculiar to the Anglo-Frisian and Scandinavian areas) of the Com. Teut. *wider- (see s.v. wither a. and adv. and wither-1), perh. taking place orig. in compounds (cf. with- and the parallelism of OE. wižcéosan and wižercéosan to reject, wižstandan and wižerstandan to withstand, etc.).

Maybe someone understands that  . . .

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Looks like I'm way late to this party, so here are the abbreviations

Abreviations
OE. Old English
OFris. Old Frisian
ON. the opposite of OFF Old Norse
Sw. Swedish
Da. Russian for 'yes' Danish
Com. Teut,. Common Teutonic
OS. Operating System Old Saxon
s.v. [couldn't find]
perh. perhaps
orig. originally
c.f. [couldn't find]


And as a bonus, here's what I got from the 1968 college edition of the 'Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language' (I collect old books).

with (with, with), preposition. [Middle English; Anglo-Saxon, origin, against; in opposition to; probably shortened < AS. wither, against; Indo-European base *wi-, asunder, separate, of which AS. wither, against (German wider) would represent the comparison (dual) form]

*hypothetical


Hopefully this doesn't get moved to Discuss

Tova:
I think 'cf' means 'compare,' more or less.

sv... google-fu powers activate!

sv sub verbo, ‘under the word’
http://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/abbreviations/#s

cf.    confer, ‘compare’
http://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/abbreviations/#c

There ya go.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Tova on 23 Jun 2016, 01:59 ---Yes, it is a fairly common phrase, like a certain je ne sais pas and savoir faire.

It is "je ne sais quoi", but I am leaving it as a warning against the dangers of careless posting.

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....... So for all the shit we Kansans get about "being backwards ⃰", we do a good job at getting French right???
I've only ever heard people say "je ne sais quoi" and I've seen 'entree' used correctly in restaurants (some not all).
The town of La Cygne is said "lă sēn" by the locals, and they say the name of the local landmark Marais de la Cygne "mə-rī dā lă sēn".


To be fair, we're not that great at Spanish. Salina (saw-LIE-nuh) and El Dorado (el doe-RAY-doe). But it's better than Colorado's La Junta (luh-huh-nuh).

 ⃰specifically for allowing 'intelligent design' to be brought up in public schools, and for the existence of the Westboro "Baptist" "Church". Some even joke it's why Pluto got demoted.

BenRG:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Jun 2016, 23:11 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 23 Jun 2016, 19:52 ---
--- Quote from: Kugai on 23 Jun 2016, 15:16 ---I wonder if Bubbles will become a fixture at CoD now she has her own very special chair.

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If Bubbles ever decides to change chassis, the old one could actually *be* a fixture.

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Unless, of course, someone else wants to move into it. May, for example.
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Actually, I could see May sitting in Bubbles' lap and looking around defiantly at everyone's surprised expressions.

Tova:

--- Quote from: Gyrre on 23 Jun 2016, 23:42 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 23 Jun 2016, 01:59 ---Yes, it is a fairly common phrase, like a certain je ne sais pas and savoir faire.

It is "je ne sais quoi", but I am leaving it as a warning against the dangers of careless posting.

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....... So for all the shit we Kansans get about "being backwards ⃰", we do a good job at getting French right???

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Sheesh, sorry.

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