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Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
I think that's copyright infringement...you will be hearing from my lawyers
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
I was in Japan for work many years ago and got to experience something of Japanese culture. Such as, when it's lunch time we ALL stopped work and went to pick up lunch at the same place and ate it together. Work through lunch and you'll be considered a gaijin barbarian. Then there was the night we went out to eat at a tex-mex restaurant run by Nigerians (in Tokyo). It was a fun educational experience in their culture.
So says the bifurtudinalist purveyor of orthometapistamoligical
pseudontodendriticologicistic platonogentism!
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
A good friend of mine (American) lived there for a few years, actually married a Japanese woman while he was there, he truly enjoyed it, but did say, they are nice enough, but you are always an outsider.
Another good friend of mine (American) married a Japanese woman he meant in college, he wanted to move there, she always said he'd never survive there. they are now on the left coast. I was actually able to speak a little Japanese then, I was learning it. But these days all I remember is, Wakarimasu ka, Wakarimasu, Wakarimasen, and of course Bīru wa arimasu ka. Side note, Mrs Wu also speaks Japanese, but she ain't Japanese
Now there's a phrase one doesn't often see on "Wheel of Fortune."
I was a "product" of watching the minseries Shogun back in the day. As a consequence, I learned a very little bit of Japanese.
On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
What is the origin of zeugma?
The grammatical and rhetorical term zeugma “the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them,” is a favorite of grammar enthusiasts (if of no one else). Zeugma appears once in Old English (spelled zeuma, a Medieval Latin spelling) in the Enchiridion (“Handbook”), a scientific and mathematical textbook by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Byrhtferth of Ramsey (c.970-c.1020). Byrhtferth only defines zeuma and translates it into Old English (gefeig “a joining”). Zeuma next appears three times in an anonymous Middle English grammatical treatise from the mid-15th century. The author defines zeuma and gives easy examples in Latin. Zeugma comes via Latin zeugma from Greek zeûgma “something used for joining, a yoking, a bond, zeugma” a derivative of the verb zeugnýnai “to yoke, bind fast.”
What is the origin of zeugma?
The grammatical and rhetorical term zeugma “the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them,” is a favorite of grammar enthusiasts (if of no one else). Zeugma appears once in Old English (spelled zeuma, a Medieval Latin spelling) in the Enchiridion (“Handbook”), a scientific and mathematical textbook by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Byrhtferth of Ramsey (c.970-c.1020). Byrhtferth only defines zeuma and translates it into Old English (gefeig “a joining”). Zeuma next appears three times in an anonymous Middle English grammatical treatise from the mid-15th century. The author defines zeuma and gives easy examples in Latin. Zeugma comes via Latin zeugma from Greek zeûgma “something used for joining, a yoking, a bond, zeugma” a derivative of the verb zeugnýnai “to yoke, bind fast.”
