I'm vaguely interested in the versions without strings. You can hear the beginnings of the Genesis sound, so for completeness, it's worth it.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostI was thinking of making a joke concerning the second song on Genesis' first album. But it turns out it's called "In The Beginning".
On a more important subject, do you use less and fewer correctly?
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostThe contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point, right, literally by definition. Word meanings change over time. It's usage now that matters.
Nice used to mean silly.
Silly used to mean worthy or blessed.
Hussy used to mean housewife
Egregious used to mean conspicuously good. Now it mean conspicuously bad.
Famously, when Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
TL;DR - don't be a prat.
Brexit used to mean Brexit.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostI was thinking of making a joke concerning the second song on Genesis' first album. But it turns out it's called "In The Beginning".
On a more important subject, do you use less and fewer correctly?
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostUnfortunately Mordac is suffering from the etymological fallacy. He should consider that next time he drinks a spirit (and consider Genesis 1:2, NAT).
Originally posted by Mordac View PostIt still does in my house...
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostThe contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point, right, literally by definition. Word meanings change over time. It's usage now that matters.
Nice used to mean silly.
Silly used to mean worthy or blessed.
Hussy used to mean housewife
Egregious used to mean conspicuously good. Now it mean conspicuously bad.
Famously, when Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
TL;DR - don't be a prat.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostThe contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point, right, literally by definition. Word meanings change over time. It's usage now that matters.
Nice used to mean silly.
Silly used to mean worthy or blessed.
Hussy used to mean housewife
Egregious used to mean conspicuously good. Now it mean conspicuously bad.
Famously, when Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
TL;DR - don't be a prat.
An Austrian army awfully arrayed
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade.
I haven't heard that Charles II quotation. Thanks for sharing.
Unfortunately Mordac is suffering from the etymological fallacy. He should consider that next time he drinks a spirit (and consider Genesis 1:2, NAT).
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostThe contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point on it, wrong.
Nice used to mean silly.
Silly used to mean worthy or blessed.
Hussy used to mean housewife
Egregious used to mean conspicuously good. Now it mean conspicuously bad.
Famously, when Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
TL;DR - don't be a prat.
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostTo be pedantic, you were stating the historical meaning of decimate. The contemporary meaning is:
kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
"the inhabitants of the country had been decimated."
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostWill someone teach those Americanists English, please. Decimate means 'remove every tenth individual, or reduce by a tenth'.
And while we're being pedantic, a 'rabbit' is something a lady uses when she doesn't have a man, or she does have a man but he's not up to the job. God help female-kind if that ever gets hit by a virus...
kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
"the inhabitants of the country had been decimated."
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
And while we're being pedantic, a 'rabbit' is something a lady uses when she doesn't have a man, or she does have a man but he's not up to the job. God help female-kind if that ever gets hit by a virus...
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