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WCDT strips 4206 to 4210 (24th - 28th February 2020)
Case:
--- Quote from: Wingy on 28 Feb 2020, 04:49 ---I expect she'll embark on a wanderjahr shortly, at least mentally if not physically. [Edit: fix speling]
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Huh? Is wanderjahr a regular Ameringlish term?
The original term refers to journeyman-years (it's three years plus a day), and ... it has very little to do with a sabbatical or similar.
Stoutfellow:
It's not a common word, but I've seen it used more than once, in the more expansive sense Wingy used.
Morituri:
The places I've lived (which excludes the north and eastern parts of the US) I never heard the word but occasionally saw it written.
The far more common term for that sort of thing would be "walkabout," an imported word from Australia.
Thing is, we use that one differently than the Australians do, too. It's not as though we're walking on routes we regard with anything like the reverence the aborigines put into it; those routes, and the landmarks along them, are mnemonics for a vast cycle of stories and devotions that an individual person on walkabout keeps stored in their head.
Not the same stories for every person, but the same set of paths serve as mnemonics to string their stories along. And their cultural memory gets preserved that way.
Whereas when we use the word "walkabout" we usually mean that we got bored and/or restless and needed to be up and doing something or out away from other people for a while. Which has some similar elements to a pilgrimage, but it's very different from what the aborigines are doing on their walkabout.
JimC:
Separated by an ocean and a common language: when I see the word custodian in connection with a charity I tend to assume some kind of senior role, and I was wondering whether bear = garden sculpture = founder's AI friend, but I checked an online dictionary, so am I right in thinking the role is what the R side would call a caretaker?
Autistic Vulture:
--- Quote from: JimC on 28 Feb 2020, 14:27 ---Separated by an ocean and a common language: when I see the word custodian in connection with a charity I tend to assume some kind of senior role, and I was wondering whether bear = garden sculpture = founder's AI friend, but I checked an online dictionary, so am I right in thinking the role is what the R side would call a caretaker?
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That seems at least reasonably close.
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