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realthogToday I registered for the first time what it said on the inside of the old cardboard box my Babe designated some while ago as a wood-carrier:
Instant eruption of paranoia. I mean, I thought I'd been getting it right, but perhaps all these years people have been too polite to tell me . . .
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Date: 2009-02-01 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-02 07:11 pm (UTC)She can?
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-02 07:11 pm (UTC)What does an apple have to do with this?
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Date: 2009-02-02 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-02 07:11 pm (UTC)My apologies!
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Date: 2009-02-01 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-02 07:12 pm (UTC)Tch, tch.
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Date: 2009-02-01 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-02 07:13 pm (UTC)You mean he has a glass without gin and lime in it?
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Date: 2009-02-01 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-02 07:13 pm (UTC)I've bought a pair of kid gloves specially for this chore.
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Date: 2009-02-02 03:38 am (UTC)But my ass always needs to be handled with care. And I believe I usually need to know which end is down, not up. *grin*
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:14 pm (UTC)"But my ass always needs to be handled with care."
I am not sure this is a piece of information I will ever need to know.
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:03 pm (UTC)True story.
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:10 pm (UTC)I thought it was Latin for "ring" -- certainly this is what a succession of teachers told me in Latin classes. (My, was I bad in that subject! The noun anus was one of the few that, for obvious reasons, I learned pretty easily.)
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:25 pm (UTC)Cassell's Latin-English gives:
anularius -a -um, of a ring: m. as subst. a ring-maker.
anulus -i, m. a ring; anulus equestris, the badge of knighthood at Rome.
[1]anus -i, m. the fundament.
[2]anus -us, f. an old woman; also used like adj., old.
Which isn't to say that [1]anus and anulus aren't related.
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:31 pm (UTC)Yet if you look here (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anus#Latin), which was the first site Google came up with (I've not checked others) you get:
Noun
ānus (genitive ānī); m, second declension
a ring
an anus
Derived terms
ānulāris
ānulārius
ānulus
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:36 pm (UTC)Ah! The riddle's getting solved! There are two nouns "anus" in Latin, the former m. and the latter f. See http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/9/8/0234/35520:
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anus, -i, m. anus, rectum; ring
anus, -us, f. old woman, hag
The first one has a long a and the second one has a short a, which helps distinguish them in poetry. The word "annulus" comes from anulus, a diminutive of anus meaning just "ring".
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I'd've thought that distinction would be useful not just in poetry. "Did you really help a rectum across the road, Brutus?"
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:38 pm (UTC)There are two nouns "anus" in Latin, the former m. and the latter f.
Oh, I see you got that part in your comment. Sorry for my carelessness.
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Date: 2009-02-02 07:28 pm (UTC)Cassell's Latin-English gives:
anularius -a -um, of a ring: m. as subst. a ring-maker.
anulus -i, m. a ring; anulus equestris, the badge of knighthood at Rome.
[1]anus -i, m. the fundament.
[2]anus -us, f. an old woman; also used like adj., old.
Which isn't to say that [1]anus and anulus aren't related.