I've always liked the German word 'Auflauf' which can mean both a souffle and a riotous assembly (which, according to a number of German's I've spoken to 'isn't counterintuitive at all'.)
There's also the separable/inseparable pair umfahren/umfahren. One means to drive round someone; the other to run them over.
"Vennligst do not spit on the floor"
Can one comply with this request by spitting on the ceiling?
Terry at 59
Well, the response was laboured to start off with, but I'll give it another go - if only to prove I wasn't spamming.
Is there life in Peckham?
Thanks for the tip on embedding. Unfortunately, I still can't check whether it works, because the Turkish government is apparently blocking You-Tube.
Fidelio: no need to be Short...
Michael Roberts @15,abi@38
For ecology without a planet, how about Fred Hoyle's 'The Black Cloud'?
'Meanwhile, in Germany, observant Muslim women who are public school teachers are not allowed to wear headscarves at school.'
As it happens, they can't in Turkey, either. Nor can judges, MPs or university teachers wear them at their place of work.
Secular state, you see. Despite being majority Muslim, and having a conservative and religious party (for which at least some on the left seem to have voted) in government.
I'm immensely grateful to Teresa for having posted this, since despite living in Turkey it's passed me by. But figuring out what's going on - let alone the likely consequences - is another matter.
Turkey is, I think, part of the reason why JBS Haldane was right when he said that the universe is not only stranger than we imagine but stranger than we *can* imagine.
Elise @ 26:
I liked the first version better: the Turkish carpet principle (including a deliberate mistake because nothing human is perfect) might be informing my judgments...
Caxton was presumably after Wm Caxton...at which point I assumed that 1838 was a misprint for 1538 - still too late to be incunabula, I think (printed before 1500, no?).
The link to the original story said that one of the stolen books was 16th century, iirc.
People who like that might also be tempted by Colson Whitehead's 'The Intuitionist', which does something similar with elevator inspection.
Bruce Cohen at 61 asks
how much proof we have that Socrates said any of what Plato attributed to him.
Scholarly opinions vary on this. Some people - like Charles Kahn at UPenn - think that the answer is 'not very much'. Others like Gregory Vlastos, think the early dialogues do represent Socrates views.
One thing that can be quite interesting is to compare what Xenophon says about Socrates trial with wht Plato says about it.
nabil at 3 - can you what those religious reasons are?
pat greene AT 3:
Sara at the next hurrah has done some longish - and very informative - posts about superdelegates. From her posts, it looks as though one reason for having them is that the Convention does other things than just choose a Presidential candidate, and that delegates chosen in primaries have a tendency to focus on just that.
Still not sure it's a good system, but Sara's evidence suggests that it isn't simply a conscious conspiracy.
Disclaimer: IANAD
Aren't chickens dinosaurs? Or close enough? Not sure they should be kept in th'attic though.
Lee @ 89
I've got no koine, but only classical Greek. Can you really use 'en' for movement towards (as opposed to fixed position) in koine?
Lee @ 89
I've got no koine, but only classical Greek. Can you really use 'en' for movement towards (as opposed to fixed position) in koine?
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