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Article #16977Re: Fun with Sophists
From: Gregory L. Hansen
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:15
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:15
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In article <gRyQa.70687$xg5.46309@twister.austin.rr.com>, Gordon <moiner@austin.rr.com> wrote: >In article <MPG.197c646a4165253e98998e@news.CIS.DFN.DE>, nycram@seznam.cz >says... >> In article <Xns93B7B05A7FD70mambuhlearthlinknet@207.217.77.22>, >> mambuhl@earthlink.net says... >> > Gary Vellenzer <nycram@seznam.cz> wrote (13 Jul 2003) in >> > news:MPG.197b0802bf93830098998b@news.CIS.DFN.DE / alt.usage.english: >> > >> > > Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common >> > > noun or adjective as a residue. >> > >> > Other than "peripatetic," "Aristotelian," and "lyceum," of course. >> > The French "lycee" is common in that language. >> > >> None of these are particularly common in English. Maybe I should have >> written COMMON in capitals in my previous post. > >Nor is "epicure" particularly common. Phrases like "epicurean delights" are common. At least in writing. -- "When fighting with sharpened Bronze, or harder Metals from the Heavens, it is Wise to kick thy Opponent, be he a Chaldean or a man of Uruk, in his Man Sack, that thou mayst defeat him more handily than by Arms. So sayeth INNAMURUTUSHIMMILODEK, who hath slain threescore Ammelekites."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,af806e85666f7193 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: 105352,af806e85666f7193 X-Google-Attributes: gid105352,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,af806e85666f7193 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-14 07:15:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail From: glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.usage.english,humanities.classics Subject: Re: Fun with Sophists Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 27 Message-ID: <beudtm$bcc$4@hood.uits.indiana.edu> References: <2a0cceff.0307121611.4c2defb3@posting.google.com> <Xns93B7B05A7FD70mambuhlearthlinknet@207.217.77.22> <MPG.197c646a4165253e98998e@news.CIS.DFN.DE> <gRyQa.70687$xg5.46309@twister.austin.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: steel05.uits.indiana.edu X-Trace: hood.uits.indiana.edu 1058192118 11660 129.79.6.195 (14 Jul 2003 14:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-admin@indiana.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:15:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test62 (21 February 1998)